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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But what good would it have been at such a distance!My swollen lips could utter no sounds.
-- Conseil was just dragging, and his net came up filled with divers ordinary shells, when, all at once, he saw me plunge my arm quickly into the net, to draw out a shell, and heard me utter a cry.
-- No; not a star was shining and night has not that utter darkness.
-- The poor Frenchman, forgetting his conventional language, had taken to his own mother tongue, to utter a last appeal!Amongst the crew of the Nautilus, associated with the body and soul of the Captain, recoiling like him from all contact with men, I had a fellow-countryman.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Never had she known such a pang of utter and final hopelessness.
-- He saw vividly with his spirit the grey, forward-stretching face of the negro woman, African and tense, abstracted in utter physical stress.
-- But as strong as the pressure of his compulsion was the repulsion of her utter terror, throwing her back away from the railway, so that she spun round and round, on two legs, as if she were in the centre of some whirlwind.
-- You've no business to utter the word."
-- The relation between her and her husband was wordless and unknown, but it was deep, awful, a relation of utter inter-destruction.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So I don't think any of us said very much about time travelling in the interval between that Thursday and the next, though its odd potentialities ran, no doubt, in most of our minds: its plausibility, that is, its practical incredibleness, the curious possibilities of anachronism and of utter confusion it suggested.
-- Presently the walls fell away from me, and I came to a large open space, and striking another match, saw that I had entered a vast arched cavern, which stretched into utter darkness beyond the range of my light.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All he could do was to utter one word, "Brandy."
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