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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With them goggling eyes and bandaged head, and never going to church of a Sunday.
-- He had never properly thought out which he hated most, and it was a pleasant day, and there was nothing better to do.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But in the first place I must state that there never were four men in the dingey, the number was three.
-- We pulled towards him, but he never came up.
-- It never entered my head to attempt to attract attention, and I do not remember anything distinctly after the sight of her side until I found myself in a little cabin aft.
-- I never asked where she came from in the beginning, out of the land of born fools, I guess.
-- I had never beheld such a repulsive and extraordinary face before, and yet if the contradiction is credible I experienced at the same time an odd feeling that in some way I had already encountered exactly the features and gestures that now amazed me.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.'
-- The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything with-out a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.
-- 'I have never seen one.
-- 'I have heard now and again of such a thing, but never in our Pack or in my time,' said Father Wolf.
-- Akela never raised his head from his paws, but went on with the monotonous cry: 'Look well!'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- he said, in a voice as re-markable for the softness and sweetness of its tones, as was his person for its rare proportions; 'I may speak of these things, and be no braggart; for I have been down at both havens; that which is situate at the mouth of Thames, and is named after the capital of Old England, and that which is called 'Haven', with the addition of the word 'New'; and have seen the scows and brigantines collecting their droves, like the gathering to the ark, being outward bound to the Island of Jamaica, for the purpose of barter and traffic in four-footed animals; but never before have I beheld a beast which verified the true scripture war-horse like this: 'He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed men.
-- I never abid in any place, sleeping or waking, without an example of this gifted work.
-- 'You will diminish them, indeed,' returned the arch girl; 'for never did I hear a more unworthy conjunction of execu-tion and language than that to which I have been listening; and I was far gone in a learned inquiry into the causes of such an unfitness between sound and sense, when you broke the charm of my musings by that bass of yours, Duncan!'
-- In conse-quence of this bad fashion, a man, who is too conscientious to misspend his days among the women, in learning the names of black marks, may never hear of the deeds of his fa-thers, nor feel a pride in striving to outdo them.
-- 'It can't be denied that your traditions tell you true in both these matters,' said the white man; 'for I have been there, and have seen them, though why water, which is so sweet in the shade, should become bitter in the sun, is an al-teration for which I have never been able to account.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All this he called 'doing his duty by their parents;' and he never inflicted a chastisement without fol-lowing it by the assurance, so consolatory to the smarting urchin, that 'he would remember it and thank him for it the longest day he had to live.'
-- He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance in his na-ture; he was in form and spirit like a supple-jack脙聞yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke; and though he bowed beneath the slightest pressure, yet, the moment it was away jerk! he was as erect, and carried his head as high as ever.
-- He had never felt so lonely and dismal.
-- These magic books and the poetic scrawl were forthwith consigned to the flames by Hans Van Ripper; who, from that time forward, determined to send his children no more to school; observing that he never knew any good come of this same reading and writing.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- THE MOON AND SIXPENCEChapter II confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary.
-- It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; but one thing can never be doubtful, and that is that he had genius.
-- I have never failed to read the Literary Supplement of The Times.
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