admire是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 钦佩, 赞赏, 羡慕; 称赞, 夸奖,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:
-- You don't admire the DUNCAN, I suppose, Miss Mary?"
-- "On the contrary, my lord, I do admire her, and I'm a connoisseur in ships," returned the young girl.
-- "Yes, Madam, and the English themselves have often been compelled to admire the courage and bravery of the New Zealanders.
-- Although their enthusiasm had been incessantly called forth during their four months' journey, Glenarvan and his companions were compelled to admire and wonder at those gigantic pines, worthy rivals of the Cedars of Lebanon, and the "Mammoth trees" of California.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Do you admire that sort of woman, prince?'
-- So you admire this kind of beauty, do you?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I admire to do it, and you'd be a regular little beauty with a touch here and there.
-- I fancied, from the way he primmed up his mouth in speaking of her, that he didn't admire Kate much.'
-- 'What virtues do you most admire in a man?'
-- The parrot alone was enough to drive her distracted, for he soon felt that she did not admire him, and revenged himself by being as mischievous as possible.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How I snuffed that Tartar air! how I spurned that turnpike earth! that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records.
-- Though, upon the whole, I greatly admire and even love the brave, the honest, and learned Captain; yet I take it very ill of him that he should so utterly ignore that case-bottle, seeing what a faithful friend and comforter it must have been, while with mittened fingers and hooded head he was studying the mathematics aloft there in that bird's nest within three or four perches of the pole.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was so vexed to see him stand up with her!But, however, he did not admire her at all; indeed, nobody can, you know; and he seemed quite struck with Jane as she was going down the dance.
-- It was generally evident whenever they met, that he DID admire her and to HER it was equally evident that Jane was yielding to the preference which she had begun to entertain for him from the first, and was in a way to be very much in love; but she considered with pleasure that it was not likely to be discovered by the world in general, since Jane united, with great strength of feeling, a composure of temper and a uniform cheerfulness of manner which would guard her from the suspicions of the impertinent.
-- 'I admire the activity of your benevolence,' observed Mary, 'but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.'
-- 'You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to dis-cuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking; if the first, I would be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.'
-- But I can as-sure the young ladies that I come prepared to admire them.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Conversation however was not wanted, for Sir John was very chatty, and Lady Middleton had taken the wise precaution of bringing with her their eldest child, a fine little boy about six years old, by which means there was one subject always to be recurred to by the ladies in case of extremity, for they had to enquire his name and age, admire his beauty, and ask him questions which his mother answered for him, while he hung about her and held down his head, to the great surprise of her ladyship, who wondered at his being so shy before company, as he could make noise enough at home.
-- And books! Thomson, Cowper, Scott she would buy them all over and over again: she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree.
-- Do not you know she calls every one reserved who does not talk as fast, and admire what she admires as rapturously as herself?"
-- It exactly answers my idea of a fine country, because it unites beauty with utility and I dare say it is a picturesque one too, because you admire it; I can easily believe it to be full of rocks and promontories, grey moss and brush wood, but these are all lost on me.
-- I admire them much more if they are tall, straight, and flourishing.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There gathered, before the matinee and afterwards, not only all the pretty women who love a showy parade, but the men who love to gaze upon and admire them.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Admire him, O signori, and enjoy yourselves.
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