grief是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 悲伤, 悲痛; 悲伤的事, 悲痛的缘由,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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sarpedon was stung with grief when he saw Glaucus leave him, still he did not leave off fighting, but aimed his spear at Alcmaon the son of Thestor and hit him.
-- Meanwhile the earth-encircler roused the Achaeans, who were resting in the rear by the ships overcome at once by hard fighting and by grief at seeing that the Trojans had got over the wall in force.
-- Noble Antilochus was more angry than any one, but grief did not make him forget his friend and comrade.
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:
-- But there are limits alike to grief and joy; and long before the watches of the morning came the stillness of those boundless woods was only bro- ken by a gay call from some exulting young Frenchman of the advanced pickets, or a menacing challenge from the fort, which sternly forbade the approach of any hostile footsteps before the stipulated moment.
-- During these and similar songs nothing was audible but the murmurs of the music; relieved, as it was, or rather rendered terrible, by those occasional bursts of grief which might be called its choruses.
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:
-- Grief and jealousy and rage seized him, and he cried out hoarsely; he was inarticulate; he clenched his fists and raised them threateningly at an invisible enemy.
-- I hoped that the grief which now seemed intolerable would be softened by the lapse of time, and a merciful forgetfulness would help him to take up once more the burden of life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The grief of Neb and his companions, who were all strongly attached to the intrepid Harding, can be better pictured than described.
-- He was like the dog who will not leave the place where his master is buried, and his grief was such that most probably he would not survive him.
-- Neb ended his account by saying what had been his grief at finding the inanimate body, in which he vainly sought for the least sign of life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- asked Quilp, his taunting inclination subdued, for a moment, by the old man's grief and wildness.
-- 'Go, deceiver, go, some day, Sir, p'r'aps you'll waken, from pleasure's dream to know, the grief of orphans forsaken.
-- In the midst of her grief and tears she was yet careful to conceal their real cause from the old man, for the dead boy had been a grandchild, and left but one aged relative to mourn his premature decay.
-- But, the bitterness of her grief was not in beholding him in this condition, when he was at least content and tranquil, nor in her solitary meditations on his altered state, though these were trials for a young heart.
-- To all this, the single gentleman listened with the air of a man quite borne down by grief and disappointment.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nekhludoff was pained and ashamed at the grief that he had caused his brother-in-law and sister, especially as he was leaving the next day and would not see them again.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a real grief to me to crush under my feet the brilliant specimens of molluscs which strewed the ground by thousands, of hammerheads, donaciae (veritable bounding shells), of staircases, and red helmet-shells, angel-wings, and many others produced by this inexhaustible ocean.
-- I have said that Captain Nemo wept while watching the waves; his grief was great.
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:
-- As for the certain grief he felt at the same time, in his soul, that was only the remains of an old ethic, that bade a human being adhere to humanity.
-- "What can be worse than this public grief what is more horrible, more false!If grief is not private, and hidden, what is?"
-- A certain pity and grief and tenderness for his father overcame him, in spite of the deeper, more sullen hostility.
-- She looked at the dog, and then at her drawing, and then cried, with real grief for the dog, and at the same time with a wicked exultation:"My beautiful, why did they?"
-- Only she wept from fathomless depths of hopeless, hopeless grief, the terrible grief of a child, that knows no extenuation.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was such anguish in the gush of grief that accompanied this raving, that my compassion made me overlook its folly, and I drew off, half angry to have listened at all, and vexed at having related my ridiculous nightmare, since it produced that agony; though WHY was beyond my comprehension.
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