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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Although it was hard to believe that her retiring for the night could be anything but a form, so severely wide awake were those classical eyes of hers, and so impossible did it seem that her rigid nose could yield to any relaxing influence, yet her manner of sitting, smoothing her uncomfortable, not to say, gritty mittens (they were constructed of a cool fabric like a meat-safe), or of ambling to unknown places of destination with her foot in her cotton stirrup, was so perfectly serene, that most observers would have been constrained to suppose her a dove, embodied by some freak of nature, in the earthly tabernacle of a bird of the hook-beaked order.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I began to feel that it was unwise of me to go any farther into the wide f ield of hypotheses for I should certainly have revived some difficulty, or rather impossibility, that would have enraged the Professor.
-- The two shores appeared to separate more and more, leaving a wide and open space for our departure.
-- My eyes, which were wide opened like those of a somnambulist, were fixed upon him, but I did not see him, nor could I clearly make out anything around me.
-- It must be quite as wide as the Mediterranean--or perhaps even as the great Atlantic Ocean.
-- His mouth was wide open; his eyes sparkled wildly behind his spectacles (which he had fortunately saved), his head bobbed up and down and from side to side, while his whole attitude and mien expressed unbounded astonishment.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And out of all the rest of Clifford's pretty wide acquaintance, there was not a man who did not rouse her contempt, when she thought of having a child by him.
-- In the hazel copse catkins were hanging pale gold, and in sunny places the wood-anemo-nes were wide open, as if exclaiming with the joy of life, just as good as in past days, when people could exclaim along with them.
-- Linley stayed to dinner, and Connie was the hostess men liked so much, so modest, yet so attentive and aware, with big, wide blue eyes arid a soft repose that sufficiently hid what she was really thinking.
-- 'Oh,' cried Connie, looking at him with wide veiled eyes.
-- And beyond that again, in the wide rolling regions of the castles, smoke waved against steam, and patch after patch of raw reddish brick showed the newer mining settlements, sometimes in the hollows, sometimes gruesomely ugly along the sky-line of the slopes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The bars were wide enough apart to admit of his thrusting his arm through to the elbow; and so he held on negligently, for his greater ease.
-- The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose and so deep a hush was on the sea, that it scarcely whispered of the time when it shall give up its dead.
-- So if we should find her temper a little defective, or any of her ways a little wide of ours, we shall know what we have to take into account.
-- The day passed on; and again the wide stare stared itself out; and the hot night was on Marseilles; and through it the caravan of the morning, all dispersed, went their appointed ways.
-- If a gentlemanly residence coming strictly within this narrow margin had not been essential to the blood of the Barnacles, this particular branch would have had a pretty wide selection among, let us say, ten thousand houses, offering fifty times the accommodation for a third of the money.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I actually made myself sleepy, and before she began to nod, I gave such a gape that she asked me what I meant by opening my mouth wide enough to take the whole book in at once.
-- At the back of his chair she stopped and stood listening, with her great eyes wide open and her cheeks red with excitement of this un-usual performance.
-- Jo spent the morning on the river with Laurie and the af-ternoon reading and crying over The Wide, Wide World, up in the apple tree.
-- The good soul was wide awake in a minute, and took the lead at once, assuring that there was no need to worry; every one had scarlet fever, and if rightly treated, nobody died, all of which Jo believed, and felt much relieved as they went up to call Meg.
-- But poor Jo never got her laugh, for she was transfixed upon the threshold by a spectacle which held her there, star-ing with her mouth nearly as wide open as her eyes.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But presently I came to a smoky light proceeding from a low, wide building, the door of which stood invitingly open.
-- On one side stood a long, low, shelf-like table covered with cracked glass cases, filled with dusty rarities gathered from this wide world's remotest nooks.
-- Father Mapple enjoyed such a wide reputation for sincerity and sanctity, that I could not suspect him of courting notoriety by any mere tricks of the stage.
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