never是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 永不, 从不, 决不; 从来没有; 不, 没有,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:
-- When any young man came within a hun-dred paces of her castle, he became quite fixed, and could not move a step till she came and set him free; which she would not do till he had given her his word never to come there again: but when any pretty maiden came within that space she was changed into a bird, and the fairy put her into a cage, and hung her up in a chamber in the castle.
-- Then he fell on his knees before the fairy, and prayed her to give him back his dear Jorinda: but she laughed at him, and said he should never see her again; then she went her way.
-- After this the robbers never dared to go back to the house; but the musicians were so pleased with their quarters that they took up their abode there; and there they are, I dare say, at this very day.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of Lilliput, Brobdingrag (for so the word should have been spelt, and not erroneously Brobdingnag), and Laputa, I have never yet heard of any Yahoo so presumptuous as to dispute their be-ing, or the facts I have related concerning them; because the truth immediately strikes every reader with convic-tion.
-- I must freely confess, that since my last return, some corrup-tions of my Yahoo nature have revived in me by conversing with a few of your species, and particularly those of my own family, by an unavoidable necessity; else I should never have attempted so absurd a project as that of reforming the Ya-hoo race in this kingdom: But I have now done with all such visionary schemes for ever.
-- hen I found myself on my feet, I looked about me, Wand must confess I never beheld a more entertaining prospect.
-- It seems, upon my first reaching the shore after our shipwreck, I was in such con-fusion, that before I came to the place where I went to sleep, my hat, which I had fastened with a string to my head while I was rowing, and had stuck on all the time I was swimming, fell off after I came to land; the string, as I conjecture, break-ing by some accident, which I never observed, but thought my hat had been lost at sea.
-- But I endeavoured to divert him from this design, by many arguments drawn from the topics of policy as well as justice; and I plainly protested, 'that I would never be an instrument of bringing a free and brave people into slavery.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'That's it!You are never to fancy.'
-- You never meet with quadrupeds going up and down walls; you must not have quadrupeds represented upon walls.
-- No little Gradgrind had ever associated a cow in a field with that famous cow with the crumpled horn who tossed the dog who worried the cat who killed the rat who ate the malt, or with that yet more famous cow who swallowed Tom Thumb: it had never heard of those celebrities, and had only been introduced to a cow as a graminivorous ruminating quadruped with several stomachs.
-- They had a little conchological cabinet, and a little metallurgical cabinet, and a little mineralogical cabinet; and the specimens were all arranged and labelled, and the bits of stone and ore looked as though they might have been broken from the parent substances by those tremendously hard instruments their own names; and, to paraphrase the idle legend of Peter Piper, who had never found his way into their nursery, If the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped at more than this, what was it for good gracious goodness' sake, that the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped it!
-- He was also to exhibit 'his astounding feat of throwing seventy-five hundred-weight in rapid succession backhanded over his head, thus forming a fountain of solid iron in mid-air, a feat never before attempted in this or any other country, and which having elicited such rapturous plaudits from enthusiastic throngs it cannot be withdrawn.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But my uncle, who never thought even of such sublunary matters, knew nothing of this.
-- I crossed my arms, looked another way and smoked--resolved never to speak.
-- "Henry," he said, in a soft and winning voice; "I have always believed you ingenious, and you have rendered me a service never to be forgotten.
-- Without you, this great, this wondrous discovery would never have been made.
-- I have never heard anything about them."
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:
-- Crippled for ever, know-ing he could never have any children, Clifford came home to the smoky Midlands to keep the Chatterley name alive while he could.
-- 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!
-- The paradisal promise: Thou shalt have men to talk to! had never been uttered.
-- She herself had never been able to be al-together herself: it had been denied her.
-- But that is how men are!Ungrateful and never satisfied.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The line of demarcation between the two colours, black and blue, showed the point which the pure sea would not pass; but it lay as quiet as the abominable pool, with which it never mixed.
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