said是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 上述的, 该,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:
-- He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the few-est disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses, either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, lux-ury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distemper upon themselves by the nat-ural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtue and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the hand-maids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embar-rassed with the labours of the hands or of the head, not sold to a life of slavery for daily bread, nor harassed with per-plexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body of rest, nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sen-sibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter; feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day's experience to know it more sensibly, After this he pressed me earnestly, and in the most af-fectionate manner, not to play the young man, nor to precipitate myself into miseries which nature, and the sta-tion of life I was born in, seemed to have provided against; that I was under no necessity of seeking my bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavour to enter me fairly into the station of life which he had just been recommending to me; and that if I was not very easy and happy in the world, it must be my mere fate or fault that must hinder it; and that he should have nothing to answer for, having thus dis-charged his duty in warning me against measures which he knew would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he would do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he directed, so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as to give me any encouragement to go away; and to close all, he told me I had my elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the same earnest persua-sions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the army, where he was killed; and though he said he would not cease to pray for me, yet he would venture to say to me, that if I did take this foolish step, God would not bless me, and I should have leisure hereafter to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to assist in my recovery.
-- Though my mother refused to move it to my father, yet I heard afterwards that she reported all the discourse to him, and that my father, after showing a great concern at it, said to her, with a sigh, 'That boy might be happy if he would stay at home; but if he goes abroad, he will be the most miserable wretch that ever was born: I can give no consent to it.'
-- said I; 'twas a terrible storm.'
-- During these first hur-ries I was stupid, lying still in my cabin, which was in the steerage, and cannot describe my temper: I could ill resume the first penitence which I had so apparently trampled upon and hardened myself against: I thought the bitterness of death had been past, and that this would be nothing like the first; but when the master himself came by me, as I said just now, and said we should be all lost, I was dreadfully frighted.
-- In the middle of the night, and under all the rest of our distresses, one of the men that had been down to see cried out we had sprung a leak; an-other said there was four feet water in the hold.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If, indeed, it could be restored to our poor little boy ""Why, to be sure," said her husband, very gravely, "that would make great difference.
-- "There is no knowing what THEY may expect," said the lady, "but we are not to think of their expectations: the question is, what you can afford to do."
-- "To be sure," said she, "it is better than parting with fifteen hundred pounds at once.
-- Twice every year these annuities were to be paid; and then there was the trouble of getting it to them; and then one of them was said to have died, and afterwards it turned out to be no such thing.
-- "Upon my word," said Mr. Dashwood, "I believe you are perfectly right.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "That," said a voice in her ear, "is one of the prettiest little resorts in Wisconsin."
-- "I don't know," said Carrie vaguely--a flash vision of the possibility of her not securing employment rising in her mind.
-- "Carrie Meeber," she said slowly.
-- "This is Northwest Chicago," said Drouet.
-- "All right," he said in all kindness.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Aunt Pol- ly Tom's Aunt Polly, she is and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
-- But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respect-able.
-- She said it was a mean prac-tice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any more.
-- Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there.
-- She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldn't say it for the whole world; she was going to live so as to go to the good place.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Come in," said the carpenter, not having an atom of strength left with which to stand up.
-- "Good day, Mastro Antonio," said Geppetto.
-- On hearing himself called Polendina, Mastro Geppetto turned the color of a red pepper and, facing the carpenter, said to him angrily: "Why do you insult me?"
-- "Well then, Mastro Geppetto," said the carpenter, to show he bore him no ill will, "what is it you want?"
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