utter是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 说, 发出(声音) a. 彻底的, 完全的,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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Harriet felt this too much to utter more than a few words of eager exclamation.
-- She was quite determined not to utter a word that should hurt Jane Fairfax's feelings; and they followed the other ladies out of the room, arm in arm, with an appearance of good-will highly becoming to the beauty and grace of each.
-- This was the amount of the whole story, of his commu-nication and of Harriet's as soon as she had recovered her senses and speech. He dared not stay longer than to see her well; these several delays left him not another minute to lose; and Emma engaging to give assurance of her safety to Mrs. Goddard, and notice of there being such a set of people in the neighbourhood to Mr. Knightley, he set off, with all the grateful blessings that she could utter for her friend and herself.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No man who had ever seen bird, rabbit, or squirrel in his childhood, could possibly have thrown with such utter imbecility as was shown here.
-- said the wall, in utter astonishment.
-- He passed by with an utter and overwhelming sensation of ignorance, shyness, and doubt.
-- But she forbore to utter this feeling, and the reticence of her tongue only made the loquacity of her face the more noticeable.
-- It was not only received with utter incredulity as regarded itself, but threw a doubt on all the assurances that had preceded it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- de Beauseant; he would write, it would be much better to do it by letter, and not to utter the words that should stab her to the heart.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.
-- A tear seemed to dim her eye when she saw us, but she quickly recovered herself, and a look of sorrowful affection seemed to attest her utter guiltlessness.
-- 'I know,' continued the unhappy victim, 'how heavily and fatally this one circumstance weighs against me, but I have no power of explaining it; and when I have expressed my utter ignorance, I am only left to conjecture concern-ing the probabilities by which it might have been placed in my pocket.
-- So soon as he had finished, the youth began, not to play, but to utter sounds that were monotonous, and neither resembling the harmo-ny of the old man's instrument nor the songs of the birds; I since found that he read aloud, but at that time I knew nothing of the science of words or letters.
-- I afterwards found that these labours, performed by an in-visible hand, greatly astonished them; and once or twice I heard them, on these occasions, utter the words 'good spirit,' 'wonderful'; but I did not then understand the signi-fication of these terms.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But only from life could Ellen's face have acquired itslook of pride that had no haughtiness, its graciousness, its melancholy and its utter lack of humor.
-- To her, Ellen represented the utter security that only Heaven or a mother can give.
-- She dropped her eyes to her plate and nibbled daintily on a beaten biscuit with an elegance and an utter lack ofappetite that would have won Mammy's approval.
-- Nothing had ever startled or frightened her so much, and her mouth went too dry for her to utter a sound.
-- She did not tell them that itwas utter boredom, bewilderment at actually being a mother and, most of all, the absence of Ashley that made her lookso woebegone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Pumblechook and Mrs. Joe stared at one another again, in utter amazement.
-- It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter--as I did!"
-- "It is quite true," she replied, referring to him with the indifference of utter contempt.
-- There was an air of utter loneliness upon her, that would have moved me to pity though she had wilfully done me a deeper injury than I could charge her with.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And from this time began an intrigue between his majes-ty and a junto of ministers, maliciously bent against me, which broke out in less than two months, and had like to have ended in my utter destruction.
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