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《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There's only one avenue to the Strand left often now, and I shall have to stop up that to-night with a pair of gloves.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Katiousha helped the ladies to bed, and, having induced the cook's girl, Mashka, to accompany her, she put on an old pair of shoes, threw a shawl over her head, gathered up her skirts and ran to the station.
-- Not far from them, in the corner, a pair of lovers were sitting.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had nothing on them but a pair of tattered, blood-stained socks.
-- A pair of eyes, luminous by reflection against the daylight without, was watching me out of the darkness.
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:
-- Rub as she could, she could make nothing more of it: she was in a little dark shop, leaning with her elbows on the counter, and opposite to her was an old Sheep, sitting in an arm-chair knitting, and every now and then leaving off to look at her through a great pair of spectacles.
-- the Sheep said, as she took up another pair of needles.
-- the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke.
-- cried the Sheep, as she took up another pair of needles.
-- As to the bottles, they each took a pair of plates, which they hastily fitted on as wings, and so, with forks for legs, went fluttering about in all directions: 'and very like birds they look,' Alice thought to herself, as well as she could in the dreadful confusion that was beginning.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Once out upon the road, Black Dog, in spite of his wound, showed a wonderful clean pair of heels and disappeared over the edge of the hill in half a minute.
-- Under that, the miscellany began a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.
-- He leaves his wife to manage the inn; and as she is a woman of colour, a pair of old bachelors like you and I may be excused for guessing that it is the wife, quite as much as the health, that sends him back to roving.
-- Nor you neither, says you; not smart none of the pair of us smart.
-- The two who were left guarding their boats seemed in a bustle at our appearance; "Lillibullero" stopped off, and I could see the pair discussing what they ought to do.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The shark's jaws opened wide, like a pair of factory shears, and it would have been all over with the Captain; but, quick as thought, harpoon in hand, Ned Land rushed towards the shark and struck it with its sharp point.
-- Its tongue, a horned substance, furnished with several rows of pointed teeth, came out quivering from this veritable pair of shears.
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:
-- Now the married pair were coming!The bells were ringing, making the air shake.
-- The two sisters were like a pair of scissors, snipping off everything that came athwart them; or like a knife and a whetstone, the one sharpened against the other.
-- "Come in," said Hermione at last, having fully taken in the pair of them.
-- "Go home, you pair of idiots, great giggling idiots!"
-- "I'll see if I'm going to be followed by a pair of giggling yelling jackanapes " he cried vengefully.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us.
-- Joseph mumbled indistinctly in the depths of the cellar, but gave no intimation of ascending; so his master dived down to him, leaving me VIS A VIS the ruffianly bitch and a pair of grim shaggy sheep dogs, who shared with her a jealous guardianship over all my movements.
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