vulgar是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 粗俗的, 趣味不高的, 通俗的, 庸俗的,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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But they were not in a situation to suffer their thoughts to dwell on the charms of natural objects; and, as the scout had not found it necessary to cease his culinary labors while he spoke, un-less to point out, with a broken fork, the direction of some particularly obnoxious point in the rebellious stream, they now suffered their attention to be drawn to the necessary though more vulgar consideration of their supper.
-- While the less refined monsters of the band prepared, be-fore the eyes of those who were to suffer, these well-known and vulgar means of torture, he approached Cora, and pointed out, with the most malign expression of counte-nance, the speedy fate that awaited her: 'Ha!'
-- The unwonted sounds caught the ears of a distant savage, who flew raging from group to group, like one who, scorning to touch the vulgar herd, hunted for some victim more worthy of his renown.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was strange that his critical sense, so accurate and unconventional when he dealt with the work of others, should be satisfied in himself with what was hackneyed and vulgar beyond belief.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No, it did not seem to him possible that such a man had ended in this vulgar fashion, carried away by a wave, drowned in the floods, a few hundred feet from a shore.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was only a soft-hearted grateful fellow, and had nothing genteel or polite about him; consequently, instead of going home again, in his grief, to kick the children and abuse his mother (for, when your finely strung people are out of sorts, they must have everybody else unhappy likewise), he turned his thoughts to the vulgar expedient of making them more comfortable if he could.
-- Such, however, is the difference between town and country, that nobody took the smallest notice of this insinuating figure; the wretches being wholly engaged in bidding the travellers farewell, in kissing hands to each other, waving handkerchiefs, and the like tame and vulgar practices.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He disliked his vulgar feelings, his self-confident narrowness of mind, but, principally, because of his sister, who should so passionately, egotistically and sensually love such a poor nature, and to please whom she should stifle all her noble sentiments.
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:
-- Even walking up the path to the church, confident as she was that in every respect she stood beyond all vulgar judgment, knowing perfectly that her appearance was complete and perfect, according to the first standards, yet she suffered a torture, under her confidence and her pride, feeling herself exposed to wounds and to mockery and to despite.
-- cried the vulgar women below, carried suddenly into the sport.
-- Gerald was nettled by this implication of vulgar materialism.
-- And he decided that, according to the vulgar phrase, he had done it "accidentally on purpose."
-- He started up with a vulgar curse.
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