prediction是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 预言, 预告; 预报,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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He gave them great hope; indeed, the young girl could not help smiling at his sanguine prediction of success, and this odd way of foreseeing future events.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The doctor's prediction was fulfilled.
-- Marya Nikolaevna's prediction came true.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I need say nothing here on the first head, because nothing canshow better than my history whether that prediction was verifiedor falsified by the result.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 脣聣 Dr. Meade's prediction was right as far as it went Johnston did stand like an iron rampart in the mountainsabove Dalton, one hundred miles away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This prediction stimulated Mrs Flintwinch to bestir herself, and to hasten up-stairs to Mrs Clennam's chamber.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This circumstance, coupled with his ambiguous, half-hinting, half-revealing, shrouded sort of talk, now begat in me all kinds of vague wonderments and half-apprehensions, and all connected with the Pequod; and Captain Ahab; and the leg he had lost; and the Cape Horn fit; and the silver calabash; and what Captain Peleg had said of him, when I left the ship the day previous; and the prediction of the squaw Tistig; and the voyage we had bound ourselves to sail; and a hundred other shadowy things.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It appears, at first sight not unreasonable to suppose, that, if he had entertained a becoming feeling of respect for the prediction of the gentleman in the white waistcoat, he would have established that sage individual's prophetic character, once and for ever, by tying one end of his pocket-handkerchief to a hook in the wall, and attaching himself to the other.
-- He needn't haven taken the trouble to shrink from Mr. Bumble's glance, however; for that functionary, on whom the prediction of the gentleman in the white waistcoat had made a very strong impression, thought that now the undertaker had got Oliver upon trial the subject was better avoided, until such time as he should be firmly bound for seven years, and all danger of his being returned upon the hands of the parish should be thus effectually and legally overcome.
-- CHAPTER XIV COMPRISING FURTHER PARTICULARS OF OLIVER'S STAY AT MR. BROWNLOW'S, WITH THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION WHICH ONE MR. GRIMWIG UTTERED CONCERNING HIM, WHEN HE WENT OUT ON AN ERRAND Oliver soon recovering from the fainting-fit into which Mr. Brownlow's abrupt exclamation had thrown him, the subject of the picture was carefully avoided, both by the old gentleman and Mrs. Bedwin, in the conversation that ensued: which indeed bore no reference to Oliver's history or prospects, but was confined to such topics as might amuse without exciting him.
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