they是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 商店。 (一般人经常用复数they来指一家商店),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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
-- What do they here?
-- They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in.
-- And there they stand miles of them leagues.
-- Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues north, east, south, and west.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.
-- They chafed her breast, hands, and temples; but the blood had stopped forever.
-- They talked of hope and comfort.
-- They had been strangers too long.
-- Besides, the board made periodical pilgrimages to the farm, and always sent the beadle the day before, to say they were going.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined to go, merely on that account, for in general, you know, they visit no newcomers.
-- 'They have none of them much to recommend them,' re-plied he; 'they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.'
-- They are my old friends.
-- The rest of the evening was spent in conjecturing how soon he would return Mr. Bennet's visit, and determining when they should ask him to dinner.
-- They attacked him in various ways with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all, and they were at last obliged to accept the second-hand intelligence of their neighbour, Lady Lucas.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But his eyes, too close together, were not so nobly set in his head as those of the king of beasts are in his, and they were sharp rather than bright pointed weapons with little surface to betray them.
-- They had no depth or change; they glittered, and they opened and shut.
-- The apartment of the jailer and his keys is where I put this thumb; and here at my wrist they keep the national razor in its case the guillotine locked up.'
-- Slow steps began ascending the stairs; the prattle of a sweet little voice mingled with the noise they made; and the prison-keeper appeared carrying his daughter, three or four years old, and a basket.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You said the other day you thought we were a deal hap-pier than the King children, for they were fighting and fretting all the time, in spite of their money.'
-- 'They are quite worn out.
-- As they gathered about the table, Mrs. March said, with a particularly happy face, 'I've got a treat for you after sup-per.'
-- They all drew to the fire, Mother in the big chair with Beth at her feet, Meg and Amy perched on either arm of the chair, and Jo leaning on the back, where no one would see any sign of emotion if the letter should happen to be touching.
-- I know they will remember all I said to them, that they will be loving children to you, will do their duty faithfully, fight their bosom enemies bravely, and conquer themselves so beautifully that when I come back to them I may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women.'
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