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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But they take long enough to get well, don't they?
-- "Very useful things indeed they are, sir," said Mrs. Hall.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We thought the people on the launch would be better provisioned (though it seems they were not), and we tried to hail them.
-- They could not have heard us, and the next morning when the drizzle cleared, which was not until past midday, we could see nothing of them.
-- They grappled together and almost stood up.
-- They sank like stones.
-- I remember how my head swayed with the seas, and the horizon with the sail above it danced up and down; but I also remember as distinctly that I had a persuasion that I was dead, and that I thought what a jest it was that they should come too late by such a little to catch me in my body.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
-- And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.'
-- But they are afraid of him too, because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad, and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of anyone, and runs through the forest biting everything in his way.
-- We call it hydro-phobia, but they call it dewanee the madness and run.
-- They will scour the jungle for him when he is far away, and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight.
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:
-- These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic.
-- They ascribe the known difficulty one people have to understand another to corruptions and dialects.
-- They were of hostile tribes, brought together by the influence of the American government; and it is worthy of remark, that a common policy led them both to adopt the same subject.
-- They mutually exhorted each other to be of use in the event of the chances of war throwing either of the parties into the hands of his enemies.
-- Whatever may be the truth, as respects the root and the genius of the Indian tongues, it is quite certain they are now so distinct in their words as to possess most of the disadvantages of strange languages; hence much of the embarrassment that has aris-en in learning their histories, and most of the uncertainty which exists in their traditions.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- n the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent Ithe eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently short-ened sail and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town.
-- They are given to all kinds of marvelous beliefs; are subject to trances and visions, and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air.
-- However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions.
-- They are like those little nooks of still water, which border a rapid stream, where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current.
-- His only resource on such occasions, either to drown thought or drive away evil spirits, was to sing psalm tunes and the good people of Sleepy Hollow, as they sat by their doors of an evening, were often filled with awe at hearing his nasal melody, 'in linked sweetness long drawn out,' floating from the distant hill, or along the dusky road.
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:
-- For a long time no critic has enjoyed in France a more incontestable authority, and it was impossible not to be impressed by the claims he made; they seemed extravagant; but later judgments have confirmed his estimate, and the reputation of Charles Strickland is now firmly established on the lines which he laid down.
-- And when such as had come in contact with Strickland in the past, writers who had known him in London, painters who had met him in the cafes of Montmartre, discovered to their amazement that where they had seen but an unsuccessful artist, like another, authentic genius had rubbed shoulders with them there began to appear in the magazines of France and America a succession of articles, the reminiscences of one, the appreciation of another, which added to Strickland's notoriety, and fed without satisfying the curiosity of the public.
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