queer是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 奇怪的, 不平常的; 可疑的; 眩晕的, 不舒服的,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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Men are queer creatures, and one has to know how to manage them."
-- When I left Rome I corresponded with him, and about once in two months received from him long letters in queer English, which brought before me vividly his spluttering, enthusiastic, gesticulating conversation.
-- With that queer idea of his to keep his whereabouts secret, it was unlikely that, on leaving, he had said where he was going.
-- They must look queer in their garish frames on the walls of the peasant house.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I don't defend myself, Fred,' said the penitent Richard; 'but the fellow has such a queer way with him and is such an artful dog, that first of all he set me upon thinking whether there was any harm in telling him, and while I was thinking, screwed it out of me.
-- 'This is a queer sort of thing,' muttered Dick, rising.
-- 'A pair of queer travellers to be walking all night,' observed the man who had first accosted them.
-- I'm too giddy and too queer to suggest anything; but you and your friends will know what to do.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Sunset of Mankind"A queer thing I soon discovered about my little hosts, and that was their lack of interest.
-- A queer doubt chilled my complacency.
-- It must have been very queer to them.
-- There were other signs of removal about, with queer narrow footprints like those I could imagine made by a sloth.
-- That was the beginning of a queer friendship which lasted a week, and ended as I will tell you!
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a Beetle sitting next to the Goat (it was a very queer carriage-full of passengers altogether), and, as the rule seemed to be that they should all speak in turn, he went on with 'She'll have to go back from here as luggage!'
-- There was something very queer about the water, she thought, as every now and then the oars got fast in it, and would hardly come out again.
-- Alice went on, not with any idea of making another riddle, but simply in her good-natured anxiety for the queer creature.
-- There was no one to be seen, and her first thought was that she must have been dreaming about the Lion and the Unicorn and those queer Anglo-Saxon Messengers.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was a queer unkempt figure, in spite of the attempts that had obviously been made to bring her into line for the day.
-- It would be queer to meet again down here in the Midlands, where their social standing was so diverse, after they had known each other on terms of equality in the houses of sundry acquaintances in town.
-- A queer little tension in the room roused him.
-- said Marshall, in a queer high falsetto voice, that caused the other man to have convulsions of laughter in his stomach.
-- "Perfectly beautiful full of primitive passion ""Isn't it queer that she always likes little things? she must always work small things, that one can put between one's hands, birds and tiny animals.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She did not know, she answered: she had only lived there a year or two; and they had so many queer goings on, she could not begin to be curious.
-- Nelly, do you never dream queer dreams?'
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