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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father or mother knew what became of me.
-- However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
-- This put my mother into a great passion; she told me she knew it would be to no purpose to speak to my father upon any such subject; that he knew too well what was my inter-est to give his consent to anything so much for my hurt; and that she wondered how I could think of any such thing after the discourse I had had with my father, and such kind and tender expressions as she knew my father had used to me; and that, in short, if I would ruin myself, there was no help for me; but I might depend I should never have their con-sent to it; that for her part she would not have so much hand in my destruction; and I should never have it to say that my mother was willing when my father was not.
-- Never any young adventurer's misfortunes, I believe, began sooner, or continued longer than mine.
-- The ship was no sooner out of the Humber than the wind began to blow and the sea to rise in a most frightful manner; and, as I had never been at sea before, I was most inexpressibly sick in body and terrified in mind.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mrs. John Dashwood had never been a favourite with any of her husband's family; but she had had no opportunity, till the present, of shewing them with how little attention to the comfort of other people she could act when occasion required it.
-- She had an excellent heart; her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and which one of her sisters had resolved never to be taught.
-- Consider," she added, "that when the money is once parted with, it never can return.
-- "I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem and love."
-- Mama, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have never been through here, though."
-- A clever companion--had she ever had one-- would have warned her never to look a man in the eyes so steadily.
-- Such a purse had never been carried by any one attentive to her.
-- Indeed, an experienced traveller, a brisk man of the world, had never come within such close range before.
-- She had never done this thing before, and lacked courage.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary.
-- The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.
-- But I never said so, because it would only make trouble, and wouldn't do no good.
-- But I never said so.
-- Jim always kept that five-center piece round his neck with a string, and said it was a charm the devil give to him with his own hands, and told him he could cure anybody with it and fetch witches when-ever he wanted to just by saying some- thing to it; but he never told what it was he said to it.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Woe to boys who refuse to obey their parents and run away from home!They will never be happy in this world, and when they are older they will be very sorry for it."
-- "I should never have thought, dear boy of mine, that you were so dainty and fussy about your food.
-- Bad, very bad!In this world, even as children, we must accustom ourselves to eat of everything, for we never know what life may hold in store for us!"
-- My dear, we never know what life may have in store for us!"
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