spectacle是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. (pl. ) 眼镜; 场面, 景象; 奇观, 壮观,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I stand aside, messieurs, by my heap of stones, to see the soldiers and their prisoner pass (for it is a solitary road, that, where any spectacle is well worth looking at), and at first, as they approach, I see no more than that they are six soldiers with a tall man bound, and that they are almost black to my sight except on the side of the sun going to bed, where they have a red edge, messieurs.
-- As they walked on in silence, he could not but see how used the people were to the spectacle of prisoners passing along the streets.
-- Affected, and impressed with terror as they both were, by this spectacle of ruin, it was not a time to yield to such emotions.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All the other houses in the street were so new and so neat, with large window panes and smooth walls, one could easily see that they would have nothing to do with the old house: they certainly thought, 'How long is that old decayed thing to stand here as a spectacle in the street?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The travellers gazed on this curious spectacle from the platforms; but Phileas Fogg, who had the most reason of all to be in a hurry, remained in his seat, and waited philosophically until it should please the buffaloes to get out of the way.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The astounded world, the astounded and profane Clif Clawson, had the spectacle of Martin in shiny pressed clothes, a painful linen collar, and an arduously tied scarf, accompanying Mrs. Fox and the chastely chattering Madeline to the Mohalis Methodist Church, to hear the Reverend Dr. Myron Schwab discourse on "The One Way to Righteousness."
-- The detective sergeant coming in not to detect but to see the charming spectacle of the mouse dying in agony from cigarette paper, stopped before the booth of the Eugenic Family, scratched his head, hastened to the police station, and returned with certain pictures.
-- While Leora listened from the back of the room, Martin addressed them, not unaware of the spectacle of little Mart Arrowsmith of Elk Mills taken seriously by the rulers of a tropic isle headed by a Sir Somebody.
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:
-- When he was attending the university, he had hun-dreds of times generally on his way home stood still on this spot, gazed at this truly magnificent spectacle and al-most always marvelled at a vague and mysterious emotion it roused in him.
-- 'You might let him die in peace, at least,' she shouted at the crowd, 'is it a spectacle for you to gape at?
-- The hoarse broken voice of Katerina Ivanovna could be heard from the bridge, and it certainly was a strange spectacle likely to at-tract a street crowd.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But oh!when I did find the house,and did dismount at the garden gate, and drag those stony-heartedboots across the lawn to Dora sitting on a garden seat under a lilac-tree, what a spectacle she was, upon that beautiful morning, amongthe butterflies, in a white chip bonnet and a dress of celestial blue!
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Of love as a spectacle Bathsheba had a fair knowledge; but of love subjectively she knew nothing.
-- It was only whispered, for something unutterably mournful no less than distressing in this spectacle of a man showing himself to be so entirely the vane of a passion enervated the feminine instinct for punctilios.
-- Troy recumbent in his wife's lap formed now the sole spectacle in the middle of the spacious room.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I am a blast-ed tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Is it a spectacle you've been making of yourself of all of us?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Joe and I going to church, therefore, must have been a moving spectacle for compassionate minds.
-- And then he would rumple my hair the wrong way,--which from my earliest remembrance, as already hinted, I have in my soul denied the right of any fellow-creature to do,--and would hold me before him by the sleeve,--a spectacle of imbecility only to be equalled by himself.
-- His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'My dear Bounderby,' said James, dismounting, and giving his bridle to his servant, 'I do see it; and am as overcome as you can possibly desire me to be, by the spectacle afforded to my mental view.
-- Regarded as a classical ruin, Mrs. Sparsit was an interesting spectacle on her arrival at her journey's end; but considered in any other light, the amount of damage she had by that time sustained was excessive, and impaired her claims to admiration.
-- Don't make yourself a spectacle of unfairness as well as inconsistency, because, although I am sorry to see Tom Gradgrind reduced to his present position, I should be doubly sorry to see him brought so low as that.
-- The spectacle of a matron of classical deportment, seizing an ancient woman by the throat, and hauling her into a dwelling-house, would have been under any circumstances, sufficient temptation to all true English stragglers so blest as to witness it, to force a way into that dwelling-house and see the matter out.
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