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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'That's true enough, he'll have lots before evening!'
-- 'H'm!yes, that's true enough.
-- It is true that her nature sometimes rebelled against these dictates of reason, and that she grew yearly more capricious and impatient; but having a respectful and well-disciplined husband under her thumb at all times, she found it possible, as a rule, to empty any little accumulations of spleen upon his head, and therefore the harmony of the family was kept duly balanced, and things went as smoothly as family mat-ters can.
-- It was true that she was lonely in her present life; Totski had judged her thoughts aright.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- True it is that they have had toil enough to be disheartened.
-- Stand, therefore, son of Atreus, by your own steadfast purpose; lead the Ar-gives on to battle, and leave this handful of men to rot, who scheme, and scheme in vain, to get back to Argos ere they have learned whether Jove be true or a liar.
-- I stand by you too to protect you, and I bid you be instant in fighting the Trojans; but either you are tired out, or you are afraid and out of heart, and in that case I say that you are no true son of Tydeus the son of Oeneus.'
-- Then Nestor knight of Gerene, answered, 'It is indeed as you say; it is all coming true at this moment, and even Jove who thunders from on high cannot prevent it.
-- You must yourselves have heard whether these things are true or no; therefore when I say well despise not my words as though I were a coward or of ignoble birth.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But that transitory gleam of the true animalism of these mon-sters was enough.
-- But, as I say, I was too full of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have never known danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.
-- That is the only way I ever heard of true research going.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They say too and it is true that man-eaters become mangy, and lose their teeth.
-- 'Fool that I am!Oh, fat, brown, root-digging fool that I am,' said Baloo, uncoiling himself with a jerk, 'it is true what Hathi the Wild Elephant says: 'To each his own fear'; and they, the Bandar-log, fear Kaa the Rock Snake.
-- There were long stretches of smooth-worn rock run-ning for miles, exactly fitted to make seal-nurseries, and there were play-grounds of hard sand sloping inland behind them, and there were rollers for seals to dance in, and long grass to roll in, and sand dunes to climb up and down, and, best of all, Kotick knew by the feel of the water, which never deceives a true sea catch, that no men had ever come there.
-- The motto of all the mongoose family is 'Run and find out,' and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
-- 'All that's true enough.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- he said, in a voice as re-markable for the softness and sweetness of its tones, as was his person for its rare proportions; 'I may speak of these things, and be no braggart; for I have been down at both havens; that which is situate at the mouth of Thames, and is named after the capital of Old England, and that which is called 'Haven', with the addition of the word 'New'; and have seen the scows and brigantines collecting their droves, like the gathering to the ark, being outward bound to the Island of Jamaica, for the purpose of barter and traffic in four-footed animals; but never before have I beheld a beast which verified the true scripture war-horse like this: 'He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed men.
-- Perhaps the rapidity of the changes from one of these paces to the other created an optical illusion, which might thus magnify the powers of the beast; for it is certain that Hey-ward, who possessed a true eye for the merits of a horse, was unable, with his utmost ingenuity, to decide by what sort of movement his pursuer worked his sinuous way on his foot-steps with such persevering hardihood.
-- 'It can't be denied that your traditions tell you true in both these matters,' said the white man; 'for I have been there, and have seen them, though why water, which is so sweet in the shade, should become bitter in the sun, is an al-teration for which I have never been able to account.'
-- 'No honest man will deny it,' said the scout, a little net-tled at the implied distrust of his explanation of the mystery of the tides; 'and I grant that it is true on the small scale, and where the land is level.
-- 'I should like to look at the creature'; if it is a true Iro-quois I can tell him by his knavish look, and by his paint,' said the scout; stepping past the charger of Heyward, and entering the path behind the mare of the singing master, whose foal had taken advantage of the halt to exact the ma-ternal contribution.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That he might make his appearance before his mistress in the true style of a cavalier, he borrowed a horse from the farmer with whom he was domiciliated, a choleric old Dutchman of the name of Hans Van Ripper, and, thus gallantly mount-ed, issued forth like a knight- errant in quest of adventures.
-- But it is meet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story, give some account of the looks and equipments of my hero and his steed.
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