pretty是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 相当, 很a. 漂亮的, 俊俏的, 标致的,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'd tear her eyes out!Now don't think so well of yourself!I guess you're pretty selfish.
-- As they revolved he saw Duer join a brilliance of pretty girls and distinguished- looking women about the great Dr. Silva, dean of the medical school.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He saw before him the face of a quite young, fair-haired girl sixteen, perhaps not more than fifteen, years old, pretty little face, but flushed and heavy looking and, as it were, swollen.
-- But that's pretty common with him at all times though芒聙娄.
-- And you, Nastasya, look in pretty often while I am away, to see whether he wants a drink or anything else.
-- When I 芒聙娄 when 芒聙娄' she coughed violently, 'oh, cursed life,' she cried, clearing her throat and pressing her hands to her breast, 'when I 芒聙娄 when at the last ball 芒聙娄 at the marshal's 芒聙娄 Princess Bezze-melny saw me who gave me the blessing when your father and I were married, Polenka she asked at once 'Isn't that the pretty girl who danced the shawl dance at the breaking-up?'
-- Raskolnikov could distinguish the child's thin but pretty little face, looking at him with a bright child-ish smile.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sometimes I fancied that Peggottyperhaps objected to my mother's wearing all the pretty dresses shehad in her drawers, or to her going so often to visit at thatneighbour's; but I couldn't to my satisfaction, make out how it was.
-- 'The pretty little widow?'
-- Just as well and more,my pretty poppet.
-- 'Her pretty face!'
-- Her face was very pretty still, but itlooked careworn, and too delicate; and her hand was so thin andwhite that it seemed to me to be almost transparent.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whenever I see her, she always curtseys and asks me how I do, in a very pretty manner; and when you have had her here to do needlework, I observe she always turns the lock of the door the right way and never bangs it.
-- Being pretty well aware of what sort of joy you must both be feeling, I have been in no hurry with my congratulations; but I hope it all went off tolerably well.
-- You have drawn two pretty pictures; but I think there may be a third a something be-tween the do-nothing and the do-all.
-- Elton is a very pretty young man, to be sure, and a very good young man, and I have a great regard for him.
-- She was a very pretty girl, and her beauty happened to be of a sort which Emma particularly admired.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "That one, too, that we had at Buck's Head on a White Monday was a pretty tipple."
-- "Their daughter was not at all a pretty chiel at that time," said Henery Fray.
-- She then rose; but before retiring, addressed a few words to them with a pretty dignity, to which her mourning dress added a soberness that was hardly to be found in the words themselves.
-- I have promised him something, and this will be a pretty surprise for him.
-- Bless her pretty face shouldn't I like to do so upon her cherry lips!"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet she must have been pretty and shapely once.
-- She was pretty by force of contrast; if she had been happy, she would have been charming.
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