wide是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 宽阔的; 睁大的; 远离的ad. 广阔地; 偏差地,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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had a very confused knowledge of kingdoms, wide extents of country, mighty rivers, and boundless seas.
-- A few incidents now and then directed me, and I possessed a map of the country; but I often wandered wide from my path.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Brent's wide ingenuous face waspuzzled and mildly indignant.
-- Even now, she could recall each detail of his dress, how brightlyhis boots shone, the head of a Medusa in cameo on his cravat phi, the wide Panama hat that was instantly in his handwhen he saw her.
-- He had alighted and tossed his bridle reins to a pickaninny and stood looking up at her, his drowsygray eyes wide with a smile and the sun so bright on his blond hair that it seemed like a cap of shining silver.
-- His thickset torso was supported by short sturdy legs,always incased in the finest leather boots procurable and always planted wide apart like a swaggering small boy's.
-- His was as Irish a face as could be found in the length andbreadth of the homeland he had left so long ago round, high colored, short nosed, wide mouthed and belligerent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My sister, Mrs. Joe, throwing the door wide open, and finding an obstruction behind it, immediately divined the cause, and applied Tickler to its further investigation.
-- In the meantime, Mrs. Joe put clean white curtains up, and tacked a new flowered flounce across the wide chimney to replace the old one, and uncovered the little state parlor across the passage, which was never uncovered at any other time, but passed the rest of the year in a cool haze of silver paper, which even extended to the four little white crockery poodles on the mantel-shelf, each with a black nose and a basket of flowers in his mouth, and each the counterpart of the other.
-- I remember Mr Hubble as a tough, high-shouldered, stooping old man, of a sawdusty fragrance, with his legs extraordinarily wide apart: so that in my short days I always saw some miles of open country between them when I met him coming up the lane.
-- The soldiers were in front of us, extending into a pretty wide line with an interval between man and man.
-- I think it will be conceded by my most disputatious reader, that she could hardly have directed an unfortunate boy to do anything in the wide world more difficult to be done under the circumstances.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Time passed on again, and the youngest son too wished to set out into the wide world to seek for the golden bird; but his father would not listen to it for a long while, for he was very fond of his son, and was afraid that some ill luck might happen to him also, and prevent his coming back.
-- The king comforted her and said: 'Leave your bedroom door open this night, and my servants shall stand outside, and when he has fallen asleep shall go in, bind him, and take him on board a ship which shall carry him into the wide world.'
-- When she heard this she turned pale with rage and envy, and called to one of her servants, and said, 'Take Snowdrop away into the wide wood, that I may never see her any more.'
-- I can now travel into the wide world, and make myself merry.'
-- what a sight she saw there!The house-door stood wide open.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- About two or three days before I was set at liberty, as I was entertaining the court with this kind of feat, there arrived an express to inform his majesty, that some of his subjects, riding near the place where I was first taken up, had seen a great black substance lying on the around, very oddly shaped, extending its edges round, as wide as his maj-esty's bedchamber, and rising up in the middle as high as a man; that it was no living creature, as they at first appre-hended, for it lay on the grass without motion; and some of them had walked round it several times; that, by mounting upon each other's shoulders, they had got to the top, which was flat and even, and, stamping upon it, they found that it was hollow within; that they humbly conceived it might 42 Gulliver's Travelsbe something belonging to the man-mountain; and if his majesty pleased, they would undertake to bring it with only five horses.
-- I had his majesty's permission to step over this wall; and, the space being so wide between that and the palace, I could easily view it on every side.
-- On the other side, dis-coursing of the ladies in that emperor's court, he used to tell me, 'one had freckles; another too wide a mouth; a third too large a nose;' nothing of which I was able to distinguish.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Opening his arms wide he took her by both her hands, and would have sprung her up and down, after the riding-master manner of congratulating young ladies on their dismounting from a rapid act; but there was no rebound in Sissy, and she only stood before him crying.
-- It is remarkable as showing the wide prevalence of this law, that among the natives of the British possessions in India, also in a considerable part of China, and among the Calmucks of Tartary, the best means of computation yet furnished us by travellers, yield similar results.
-- He too, with the world a wide heath before him, enjoyed the meal again in corroboration of the magnates, as exemplifying the utter want of calculation on the part of these people, sir.
-- You have done so much for him, you are so fond of him; your whole life, Mrs. Bounderby, expresses such charming self-forgetfulness on his account pardon me again I am running wide of the subject.
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