converse是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 谈话, 对话, 交往,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The leading curiosity is, to know which is he; he stands at the back of the tumbril with his head bent down, to converse with a mere girl who sits on the side of the cart, and holds his hand.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The room had some resemblance to the clay-floored halls in Holstein; a pretty numerous company, consisting of seamen, Copenhagen burghers, and a few scholars, sat here in deep converse over their pewter cans, and gave little heed to the person who entered.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Miss Fairfax's recent illness had offered a fair plea for Mrs. Weston to invite her to an airing; she had drawn back and declined at first, but, on be-ing pressed had yielded; and, in the course of their drive, Mrs. Weston had, by gentle encouragement, overcome so much of her embarrassment, as to bring her to converse on the important subject.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had no wish to converse with her: that his bright lady and himself formed one group, exclusively their own, and containing no others in the world, was enough.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he ap-peared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.
-- He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and pros-perous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with and acquire knowledge from be-ings of a superior nature, but I was wretched, helpless, and alone.
-- We were not allowed to converse for any length of time, 222 Frankensteinfor the precarious state of my health rendered every precau-tion necessary that could ensure tranquillity.
-- Yet he enjoys one comfort, the offspring of solitude and delirium; he believes that when in dreams he holds converse with his friends and derives from that communion consolation for his miseries or ex-citements to his vengeance, that they are not the creations 260 Frankensteinof his fancy, but the beings themselves who visit him from the regions of a remote world.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They are never suffered to converse with- servants, but go together in smaller or greater numbers to take their diversions, and always in the presence of a professor, or one of his deputies; whereby they avoid those early bad impressions of folly and vice, to which our children are sub-ject.
-- For, after having been accustomed several months to the sight and converse of this people, and observed every object upon which I cast mine eyes to be of proportionable magnitude, the horror I had at first conceived from their bulk and aspect was so far worn off, that if I had then be-held a company of English lords and ladies in their finery and birth-day clothes, acting their several parts in the most courtly manner of strutting, and bowing, and prating, to say the truth, I should have been strongly tempted to laugh as much at them as the king and his grandees did at me.
-- I wanted to be among peo-ple, with whom I could converse upon even terms, and walk 175about the streets and fields without being afraid of being trod to death like a frog or a young puppy.
-- While we were at dinner, I made bold to ask the names of several things in their language, and those noble persons, by the assistance of their flappers, delighted to give me an-swers, hoping to raise my admiration of their great abilities if I could be brought to converse with them.
-- I walked to the city without any concern, being clad like one of the natives, and sufficiently instructed to converse with them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The board then proceeded to converse among themselves for a few minutes, but in so low a tone, that the words 'saving of expenditure,' 'looked well in the accounts,' 'have a printed report published,' were alone audible.
-- Mr. Bumble stopped not to converse with the small shopkeepers and others who spoke to him, deferentially, as he passed along.
-- The flame th rew a ghastly light on their shrivelled faces, and made their ugliness appear terrible, as, in this position, they began to converse in a low voice.
-- Encouraging each other with such converse as this; but, keeping very close together, notwithstanding, and looking apprehensively round, whenever a fresh gust rattled through the boughs; the three men hurried back to a tree, behind which they had left their lantern, lest its light should inform the thieves in what direction to fire.
-- He will wake in an hour or so, I dare say; and although I have told that thick-headed constable-fellow downstairs that he musn't be moved or spoken to, on peril of his life, I think we may converse with him without danger.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But they are very pleasing women when you converse with them.
-- You will not thank me for detaining you from the bewitching converse of that young lady, whose bright eyes are also upbraiding me.'
-- She could think of nothing more to say; but if he wished to converse with her, he might have better success.
-- Elizabeth did all she could to shield him from the frequent notice of either, and was ever anxious to keep him to herself, and to those of her family with whom he might converse without mortification; and though the uncomfortable feelings arising from all this took from the season of courtship much of its pleasure, it added to the hope of the future; and she looked forward with delight to the time when they should be removed from society so little pleasing to either, to all the comfort and el-egance of their family party at Pemberley.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had nobody to converse with, but now and then this neighbour; no work to be done, but by the la-bour of my hands; and I used to say, I lived just like a man cast away upon some desolate island, that had nobody there but himself.
-- But, alas!falling early into the seafaring life, which of all lives is the most destitute of the fear of God, though His terrors are always before them; I say, fall-ing early into the seafaring life, and into seafaring company, all that little sense of religion which I had entertained was laughed out of me by my messmates; by a hardened despis-ing of dangers, and the views of death, which grew habitual to me by my long absence from all manner of opportunities to converse with anything but what was like myself, or to hear anything that was good or tended towards it.
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