restless是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 焦躁不安的,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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- she said, in a restless state between distress at hearing him and a penchant to hear more.
-- He exhibited the unpleasant combination of a restless condition with a silent tongue.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was often tempted, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly if I except some bat, or the frogs, whose harsh and interrupted croaking was heard only when I approached the shore of-ten, I say, I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities forev-er.
-- Thus situated, employed in the most detestable occupa-tion, immersed in a solitude where nothing could for an instant call my attention from the actual scene in which I was engaged, my spirits became unequal; I grew restless and nervous.
-- I walked about the isle like a restless spectre, separated from all it loved and miserable in the separation.
-- The moon had reached her sum-mit in the heavens and was beginning to descend; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But there was a brisk and restless vitality about the young Irishman, fresh from a country where winds blew wetand chill, where misty swamps held no fevers, that set him apart from these indolent gentle-folk of semi-tropicalweather and malarial marshes.
-- Many had moved for no reason at all, except thatthe restless blood of pioneering fathers still quickened in their veins.
-- Only theyoung men retained the restless energy which had filled the whole throng a short while before.
-- The fringe of women on foot and in carriages grew greater and greater, and the heatof the close-packed bodies and dust rising from restless feet were suffocating.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
-- with the old restless fingers.
-- As often as I was restless in the night, and that was every quarter of an hour, I reflected what an unkindness, what an injury, what an injustice, Biddy had done me.
-- Notwithstanding my inability to settle to anything,--which I hope arose out of the restless and incomplete tenure on which I held my means,--I had a taste for reading, and read regularly so many hours a day.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- aving been condemned, by nature and fortune, to ac-Htive and restless life, in two months after my return, I again left my native country, and took shipping in the Downs, on the 20th day of June, 1702, in the Adventure, Captain John Nicholas, a Cornish man, commander, bound for Surat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'What are the restless wretches doing now?'
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:
-- After coffee Michaelis, restless and ill-sitting soul, wondered what he should do.
-- So next morning Mick was more uneasy than ever; restless, devoured, with his hands restless in his trousers pockets.
-- And still there haunt-ed her a restless necessity to get a grip on love.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of life.
-- It was taking leave of all his old hopes all nobody's old restless doubts.
-- My poor fellow is of such a restless disposition, and has been so used to roving about, and to being inconstant and popular among all manner of people, that it's the greatest comfort in life.
-- Solely supported by his unimpugnable calculations, Mr Pancks led an unhappy and restless life; constantly carrying his figures about with him in his hat, and not only going over them himself on every possible occasion, but entreating every human being he could lay hold of to go over them with him, and observe what a clear case it was.
-- The more restless Mr Pancks grew in his mind, the more impatient he became of the Patriarch.
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