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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His father, a minister of St. Katrine's Church, had given him a thorough education, as he believed that could never hurt anybody.
-- This was in 1861, and for twelve months, or up to May, 1862, letters were regularly received from him, but no tidings whatever had come since his departure from Callao, in June, and the name of the BRITANNIA never appeared in the Shipping List.
-- She never hesitated for an instant as to the course she should adopt, but determined to go to Dumbartonshire immediately, to learn the best and worst.
-- Such was Mary Grant's sorrowful story, and she recounted it in so simple and unaffected a manner, that it was evident she never thought her conduct had been that of a heroine through those long trying years.
-- "No, Robert," said Mary Grant, "we will thank this noble lord and lady for what they have done for us, and never cease to think of them with gratitude; and then we'll both go together."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued by his indifference to my admiration and to the at-tempts which I had made to give publicity to his methods.
-- This, in truth, his neighbours might have pardoned, seeing that saints have never flourished in those parts, but there was in him a certain wanton and cruel humour which made his name a byword through the West.
-- He never returned.
-- The worst of it is that I only bought the pair last night in the Strand, and I have never had them on.'
-- 'If you have never worn them, why did you put them out to be cleaned?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Fancy if it had been a hard frost!I never thought it would be so cold in the old country.
-- H'm!I don't know, I'm sure!I may say I have never heard of such a person,' said the clerk, thoughtfully.
-- Karamsin must mention the family name, of course, in his historybut as an individual one never hears of any Prince Muishkin nowadays.'
-- 'Oh yes I did learn a little, but ' 'I've never learned anything whatever,' said the other.
-- However, I went for an hour or so and saw Nastasia Philipovna, and I never slept a wink all night after.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His heart was black with rage, and his eyes flashed fire as he scowled on Calchas and said, 'Seer of evil, you never yet prophesied smooth things concerning me, but have ever loved to foretell that which was evil.
-- Never when the Achaeans sack any rich city of the Trojans do I receive so good a prize as you do, though it is my hands that do the better part of the fighting.
-- 'Wine-bibber,' he cried, 'with the face of a dog and the heart of a hind, you never dare to go out with the host in fight, nor yet with our cho-sen men in ambuscade.
-- Never again can I behold such men as Pirithous and Dryas shepherd of his people, or as Caeneus, Exadius, god-like Polyphemus, and Theseus son of Aegeus, peer of the immortals.
-- They stood fearfully and reverently before him, and never a word did they speak, but he knew them and said, 'Welcome, heralds, messengers of gods and men; draw near; my quarrel is not with you but with Agamemnon who has sent you for the girl Briseis.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When Mrs. Hall went to clear away the stranger's lunch, her idea that his mouth must also have been cut or disfigured in the accident she supposed him to have suffered, was confirmed, for he was smoking a pipe, and all the time that she was in the room he never loosened the silk muffler he had wrapped round the lower part of his face to put the mouthpiece to his lips.
-- These consisted for the most part in looking very hard at the stranger whenever they met, or in asking people who had never seen the stranger, leading questions about him.
-- He never said a word; just glared, and put his sleeve back in his pocket quickly.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My mother I have never known."
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