there是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 在那儿; 往那儿; [作引导词表示"存在",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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then there was great rejoicing made; but the horse would not eat, the bird would not sing, and the princess wept.
-- While he was trying his luck in milking, and managing the matter very clumsily, the uneasy beast began to think him very troublesome; and at last gave him such a kick on the head as knocked him down; and there he lay a long while senseless.
-- First there will be a capital roast; then the fat will find me in goose-grease for six months; and then there are all the beautiful white feath-ers.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my an-cient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother's side.
-- There is an air of truth apparent through the whole; and indeed the author was so distinguished for his veracity, that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbours at Redriff, when any one af-firmed a thing, to say, it was as true as if Mr. Gulliver had spoken it.
-- I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my sev-eral voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month: and I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any copy left: however, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert, if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid read-ers to adjust it as they please.
-- And is there less probability in my account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many thousands even in this country, who only differ from their brother brutes in Houyhnhnmland, be-cause they use a sort of jabber, and do not go naked?
-- When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father: where, by the assistance of him and my uncle John, and some other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I studied physic two years and seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.
-- There being a general conviction by this time that 'No, sir!'
-- There were five young Gradgrinds, and they were models every one.
-- The clashing and banging band attached to the horse-riding establishment, which had there set up its rest in a wooden pavilion, was in full bray.
-- There was an air of jaded sullenness in them both, and particularly in the girl: yet, struggling through the dissatisfaction of her face, there was a light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved imagination keeping life in itself somehow, which brightened its expression.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a reason, and it may be regarded as a good one, why my uncle objected to display his learning more than was absolutely necessary: he stammered; and when intent upon explaining the phenomena of the heavens, was apt to find himself at fault, and allude in such a vague way to sun, moon, and stars that few were able to comprehend his meaning.
-- In connection with the sciences there are many almost unpronounceable names--names very much resembling those of Welsh villages; and my uncle being very fond of using them, his habit of stammering was not thereby improved.
-- In fact, there were periods in his discourse when he would finally give up and swallow his discomfiture--in a glass of water.
-- To me there was nothing like pebbles --and if my uncle had been in a little less of a fury, we should have been the happiest of families.
-- "The manuscript volume and the smaller document are written in different hands," he said, "the cryptograph is of much later date than the book; there is an undoubted proof of the correctness of my surmise.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.
-- Otherwise there were no near relatives.
-- There was a blank of insentience.
-- Women had always known there was something better, something higher.
-- The amazing, the profound, the unbelievable thrill there was in passionately talking to some really clever young man by the hour, resuming day after day for months...this they had never realized till it happened!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was no wind to make a ripple on the foul water within the harbour, or on the beautiful sea without.
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