star是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 星; 恒星; 明星v. 用星号标出; 扮演主角,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:
-- The splendor of the spectacle increased every instant as night deepened, and the whole sky became lighted up with a dazzling reflection of the blazing crater, while the sun, gradually becoming shorn of his sunset glories, disappeared like a star lost in the distant darkness of the horizon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I don't know what he had looked like, except a funeral; with the addition of a large Danish sun or star hanging round his neck by a blue ribbon, that had given him the appearance of being insured in some extraordinary Fire Office.
-- This led to Mr. Wopsle's (who had never been heard of before) coming in with a star and garter on, as a plenipotentiary of great power direct from the Admiralty, to say that the Swabs were all to go to prison on the spot, and that he had brought the boatswain down the Union Jack, as a slight acknowledgment of his public services.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- so she took herself away in a hurry and came to the stars, and the stars were friendly and kind to her, and each star sat upon his own little stool; but the morning star rose up and gave her a little piece of wood, and said, 'If you have not this little piece of wood, you can-not unlock the castle that stands on the glass-mountain, 314 Grimms' Fairy Talesand there your brothers live.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But my good star would have it, that he appeared pleased with my voice and gestures, and began to look upon me as a curiosity, much wondering to hear me pronounce articulate words, although he could not understand them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Before it was raised, and while they were arranging how to go, he said to Rachael, looking upward at the star:'Often as I coom to myseln, and found it shinin' on me down there in my trouble, I thowt it were the star as guided to Our Saviour's home.
-- They lifted him up, and he was overjoyed to find that they were about to take him in the direction whither the star seemed to him to lead.
-- The star had shown him where to find the God of the poor; and through humility, and sorrow, and forgiveness, he had gone to his Redeemer's rest.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a star without scintillating rays.
-- Perhaps even the star of day was not quite ready for its brilliant work--to illumine a universe.
-- We came out of the crater half naked, and the radiant star from which we had asked nothing for two months, was good enough to be prodigal to us of light and warmth--a light and warmth we could easily have dispensed with.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Why is the star Jupiter bigger than the star Neptune?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- An evil star occasioned Madame Rigaud to advert to her relations; I reasoned with her on that subject, and remonstrated on the want of duty and devotion manifested in her allowing herself to be influenced by their jealous animosity towards her husband.
-- In Little Dorrit's eyes, the outside of that window had been a distant star on other nights than this.
-- SpiritAnybody may pass, any day, in the thronged thoroughfares of the metropolis, some meagre, wrinkled, yellow old man (who might be supposed to have dropped from the stars, if there were any star in the Heavens dull enough to be suspected of casting off so feeble a spark), creeping along with a scared air, as though bewildered and a little frightened by the noise and bustle.
-- Yet hitherto our star has been a vacillating and wavering star?
-- There was one bright star shining in the sky.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But neither bent the knee, for the young bridegroom replied in a tone that startled all listeners as the mask fell, disclosing the noble face of Ferdinand Devereux, the artist lover, and leaning on the breast where now flashed the star of an English earl was the lovely Viola, radiant with joy and beauty.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At their flaming head he westward trooped it like that chosen star which every evening leads on the hosts of light.
-- But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Harry Quincel was looked upon as quite a star for this sort of work.
-- It did not matter whether she was the star or not.
-- Only the star comedian whose part had been so deeply injured stalked by himself.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The announcements, posted all around the town, and written in large letters, read thus: GREAT SPECTACLE TONIGHT LEAPS AND EXERCISES BY THE GREAT ARTISTS AND THE FAMOUS HORSES of the COMPANY First Public Appearance of the FAMOUS DONKEY called PINOCCHIO THE STAR OF THE DANCE ---- The Theater will be as Light as Day That night, as you can well imagine, the theater was filled to overflowing one hour before the show was scheduled to start.
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