pair是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 一对, 一双; 一副; 夫妇v. 配对, 成对,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in an-other, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: be-ing now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away.
-- Top couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking.
-- With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed as no doubt it was; all kinds of good little dots about her chin, that melted into one an-other when she laughed; and the sunniest pair of eyes you ever saw in any little creature's head.
-- A seal or two, a pencil-case, a pair of sleeve-buttons, and a brooch of no great value, were all.
-- Sheets and towels, a little wearing apparel, two old-fashioned silver teaspoons, a pair of sugar-tongs, and a few boots.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A face habitually suppressed and quieted, was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair of moist bright eyes that it must have cost their owner, in years gone by, some pains to drill to the composed and reserved expression of Tellson's Bank.
-- As his eyes rested on a short, slight, pretty fig-ure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his 27own with an inquiring look, and a forehead with a singular capacity (remembering how young and smooth it was), of rifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of a bright fixed attention, though it included all the four ex-pressions-as his eyes rested on these things, a sudden vivid likeness passed before him, of a child whom he had held in his arms on the passage across that very Channel, one cold time, when the hail drifted heavily and the sea ran high.
-- This time, a pair of haggard eyes had looked at the questioner, before the face had dropped again.
-- 'Are you going to finish that pair of shoes to-day?'
-- 'Do you mean to finish that pair of shoes to-day?'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I must tell you,' said she, 'that to-day is my birthday; and in honor of it, a pair of walking-shoes or galoshes has been entrusted to me, which I am to carry to mankind.
-- The Watchman's Adventure Why, there is a pair of galoshes, as sure as I'm alive!'
-- 'Such a pair of shoes must be very warm and comfortable,' said he; 'the leather is so soft and supple.'
-- But she was full of mystery about her art, in which a certain pair of magic spectacles did her essential service.
-- Meanwhile he was haunted by the idea he should like to possess such a pair of spectacles himself; then, perhaps, by using them circumspectly, one would be able to look into people's hearts, which, he thought, would be far more in-teresting than merely to see what was to happen next year; for that we should all know in proper time, but the other never.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The fat old Tatar, Madame Karenina's coachman, was with difficulty holding one of her pair of grays, chilled with the cold and rearing at the entrance.
-- A pair of gloves?"
-- Not so much from what her mother told her, as from the fact that it was Konstantin's brother, this pair suddenly seemed to Kitty intensely unpleasant.
-- A high, narrow carriage with a pair of grays was standing at the entrance.
-- When the deacon had finished the prayer for the Imperial family, the priest turned to the bridal pair with a book: "Eternal God, that joinest together in love them that were separate," he read in a gentle, piping voice: "who hast ordained the union of holy wedlock that cannot be set asunder, Thou who didst bless Isaac and Rebecca and their descendants, according to Thy Holy Covenant; bless Thy servants, Konstantin and Ekaterina, leading them in the path of all good works.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Each pair of trousers, coat, and vest bore a number, indicating the time of year and season at which they were in turn to be laid out for wearing; and the same system was applied to the master's shoes.
-- Whereupon he placed a pair of shoes on his desk.
-- A handsome carriage, drawn by a sleek pair of New Holland horses, carried Phileas Fogg and Aouda into the midst of rows of palms with brilliant foliage, and of clove-trees, whereof the cloves form the heart of a half-open flower.
-- Attired after the fashion of the Middle Ages, they bore upon their shoulders a splendid pair of wings; but what especially distinguished them was the long noses which were fastened to their faces, and the uses which they made of them.
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