passable是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 过得去的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Isat there, sturdily conning my books, until dinner-time (we wereout of school for good at three): and went down, hopeful ofbecoming a passable sort of boy yet.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What is passable in youth is detestable in later age.
-- The horror of being blocked up at Randalls, while her children were at Hartfield, was full in her imagination; and fancying the road to be now just passable for adventurous people, but in a state that admitted no delay, she was eager to have it set-tled, that her father and Emma should remain at Randalls, while she and her husband set forward instantly through all the possible accumulations of drifted snow that might impede them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Cyrus Harding, Herbert, Gideon Spilett, Neb, and the sailor were soon collected on the shore, at a place where the channel left a ford passable at low tide.
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