TRUE是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 真实, 不假的; 忠实, 可靠的; 正确无误的,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Though true cylinders without within, the villanous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.
-- And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad, and I've no idea of sleeping with a madman; and you, sir, you I mean, landlord, you, sir, by trying to induce me to do so knowingly, would thereby render yourself liable to a criminal prosecution."
-- It is a land of oil, true enough: but not like Canaan; a land, also, of corn and wine.
-- Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He meant this to be ironical, but it was true besides; for the Dodger and Charley Bates had filed off down the first convenient court they came to.
-- 'They shall understand that, ma'am; they shall be acquainted with the true state of the case,' said Mr. Bumble.
-- She was as true and earnest in the matter as Toby Crackit himself could be.
-- See here!I have borne all this for you already, as true as God sees me show it.'
-- So three months glided away; three months which, in the life of the most blessed and favoured of mortals, might have been unmingled happiness, and which, in Oliver's were true felicity.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lady Cath-erine herself says that, in point of true beauty, Miss de Bourgh is far superior to the handsomest of her sex, be-cause there is that in her features which marks the young lady of distinguished birth.
-- She saw her in idea settled in that very house, in all the felicity which a marriage of true affection could bestow; and she felt capable, under such circumstanc-es, of endeavouring even to like Bingley's two sisters.
-- And rising as she thus spoke, she would have quitted the room, had Mr. Collins not thus addressed her: 'When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accus-ing you of cruelty at present, because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.'
-- There are few people in England, I sup-pose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste.
-- Young la-dies of her age are sometimes a little difficult to manage, and if she has the true Darcy spirit, she may like to have her own way.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now I saw plainly the goodness of his observations about the middle station of life, how easy, how comfortably he had lived all his days, and never had been exposed to tempests at sea or troubles on shore; and I resolved that I would, like a true repenting prodigal, go home to my father.
-- When he was gone, I turned to the boy, whom they called Xury, and said to him, 'Xury, if you will be faithful to me, I'll make you a great man; but if you will not stroke your face to be true to me' - that is, swear by Ma-homet and his father's beard - 'I must throw you into the sea too.'
-- I had a small runlet or two, as I observed before; but I could never arrive at the capacity of making one by them, though I spent many weeks about it; I could neither put in the heads, or join the staves so true to one another as to make them hold water; so I gave that also over.
-- It is true, when I got on shore first here, and found all my ship's crew drowned and myself spared, I was surprised with a kind of ecstasy, and some transports of soul, which, had the grace of God assisted, might have come up to true thankfulness; but it ended where it began, in a mere com-mon flight of joy, or, as I may say, being glad I was alive, without the least reflection upon the distinguished good-ness of the hand which had preserved me, and had singled me out to be preserved when all the rest were destroyed, or an inquiry why Providence had been thus merciful unto me.
-- This was the first time I could say, in the true sense of the words, that I prayed in all my life; for now I prayed with a sense of my condition, and a true Scripture view of hope, founded on the encouragement of the Word of God; and from this time, I may say, I began to hope that God would hear me.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The letter was from this gentleman himself, and written in the true spirit of friendly accommodation.
-- "Well, my dear, 'tis a true saying about an ill-wind, for it will be all the better for Colonel Brandon.
-- CHAPTER 38Mrs. Jennings was very warm in her praise of Edward's conduct, but only Elinor and Marianne understood its true merit.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her manner was simple, though for the very reason that she had not yet learned the many little affectations with which women conceal their true feelings.
-- How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.
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