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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The captain, hearing me utter these absurdities, concluded I was rav-ing; however (I suppose to pacify me) he promised to give order as I desired, and going upon deck, sent some of his men down into my closet, whence (as I afterwards found) they drew up all my goods, and stripped off the quilting; but the chairs, cabinet, and bedstead, being screwed to the floor, were much damaged by the ignorance of the seamen, who tore them up by force.
-- And thus ambassadors would be qualified to treat with foreign princes, or minis-ters of state, to whose tongues they were utter strangers.
-- I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so often the appellation of Yahoo, an odious animal, for which I had so utter a hatred and contempt: I begged he would forbear ap-plying that word to me, and make the same order in his family and among his friends whom he suffered to see me.
-- I had likewise learned, from his example, an utter detestation of all falsehood or disguise; and truth appeared so amiable to me, that I determined upon sacrificing every 328 Gulliver's Travelsthing to it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He too, with the world a wide heath before him, enjoyed the meal again in corroboration of the magnates, as exemplifying the utter want of calculation on the part of these people, sir.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "It is now six hundred years since Sneffels has spoken, but though now reduced to a state of utter silence, he may speak again.
-- The pressure was too great, and all our attempts were utter failures.
-- No words in any human language can depict my utter despair.
-- Every instant it seemed to me that it was about to vanish and to leave me forever--in utter darkness!
-- How was it that I was able to look upon that vast sheet of water instead of being plunged in utter darkness?
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:
-- It stood on an eminence in a rather line old park of oak trees, but alas, one could see in the near distance the chim-ney of Tevershall pit, with its clouds of steam and smoke, and on the damp, hazy distance of the hill the raw straggle of Tevershall village, a village which began almost at the park gates, and trailed in utter hopeless ugliness for a long and gruesome mile: houses, rows of wretched, small, be-grimed, brick houses, with black slate roofs for lids, sharp angles and wilful, blank dreariness.
-- she exclaimed, with hardly breath to utter it.
-- It was the cruelty of utter impotence.
-- Having lived among the owning classes, he knew the utter futility of ex-pecting any solution of the wage-squabble.
-- The utter ne-gation of natural beauty, the utter negation of the gladness of life, the utter absence of the instinct for shapely beauty which every bird and beast has, the utter death of the hu-man intuitive faculty was appalling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His utter disregard of other people, as shown in his way of tossing the little womanly toys of furniture about, flinging favourite cushions under his boots for a softer rest, and crushing delicate coverings with his big body and his great black head, had the same brute selfishness at the bottom of it.
-- He nodded again; afraid to utter a word, lest it should present any new opening to Mrs Tickit's conversational powers.
-- That how it was not to be expected, ma'am, that he should lose by it, his ways being, as you might say and utter no falsehood, paved with gold; but that how it was much to be regretted that something handsome hadn't been got up to make it worth his while; for it was such and only such that knowed the heighth to which the bread and butchers' meat had rose, and it was such and only such that both could and would bring that heighth down.
-- There was something so indubitably genuine in the wonderful laugh, and series of snorts and puffs, engendered in Mr Pancks's astonishment at, and utter rejection of, the idea, that his being quite in earnest could not be questioned.
-- When free from the trammels of passion,' Mrs General closed her eyes at the word, as if she could not utter it, and see anybody; 'when occurring with the approbation of near relatives; and when cementing the proud structure of a family edifice; these are usually auspicious events.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And, to the utter amazement of the as-sembled family, Beth walked deliberately down the garden, through the hedge, and in at the Laurences' door.
-- Amy was on the point of crying, but Laurie slyly pulled the parrot's tail, which caused Polly to utter an astonished croak and call out, 'Bless my boots!'
-- The fever flush and the look of pain were gone, and the beloved little face looked so pale and peaceful in its utter repose that Jo felt no desire to weep or to lament.
-- And when Meg told him to behave himself and go away, he wrung imaginary tears out of his handker-chief, and staggered round the corner as if in utter despair.
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