accept是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 接受, 领受; 认可, 同意vi. 同意, 认可,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:
-- Nor could he find it in his heart to insist, when the Indian, smiling as usual, would not accept the price of his services, pushing back the money, and saying:"For the sake of friendship."
-- Paganel made him accept a map of South America and the two oceans, which he had often seen the Indian looking at with interest.
-- It was impossible not to accept an invitation given with such grace.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Meg couldn't refuse the offer so kindly made, for a de-sire to see if she would be 'a little beauty' after touching up caused her to accept and forget all her former uncomfort-able feelings toward the Moffats.
-- 'Did the spider accept the old fellow's invitation?'
-- If rank and money come with love and virtue, also, I should accept them gratefully, and enjoy your good fortune, but I know, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be had in a plain little house, where the daily bread is earned, and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures.
-- Accept a ribbon red, I beg, For Madam Purrer's tail, And ice cream made by lovely Peg, A Mont Blanc in a pail.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man!Never dream with thy hand on the helm!Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They attacked him in various ways with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all, and they were at last obliged to accept the second-hand intelligence of their neighbour, Lady Lucas.
-- Mr. Bingley was obliged to be in town the following day, and, consequently, unable to accept the honour of their invitation, etc.
-- Miss Bingley offered her the carriage, and she only wanted a little pressing to accept it, when Jane testified such concern in parting with her, that Miss Bingley was obliged to convert the offer of the chaise to an invitation to remain at Netherfield for the present.
-- Elizabeth's spirits were so high on this occasion, that though she did not often speak unnecessarily to Mr. Col-lins, she could not help asking him whether he intended to accept Mr. Bingley's invitation, and if he did, whether he would think it proper to join in the evening's amusement; and she was rather surprised to find that he entertained no scruple whatever on that head, and was very far from dread-ing a rebuke either from the Archbishop, or Lady Catherine de Bourgh, by venturing to dance.
-- Accept my thanks for the compliment you are paying me.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Upon this I lowered the top of my sail and lay by, and two of them ran up into the country, and in less than half-an- hour came back, and brought with them two pieces of dried flesh and some corn, such as is the produce of their country; but we neither knew what the one or the other was; however, we were willing to accept it, but how to come at it was our next dispute, for I would not venture on shore to them, and they were as much afraid of us; but they took a safe way for us all, for they brought it to the shore and laid it down, and went and stood a great way off till we fetched it on board, and then came close to us again.
-- When this cargo arrived I thought my fortune made, for I was surprised with the joy of it; and my stood steward, the captain, had laid out the five pounds, which my friend had sent him for a present for himself, to purchase and bring me over a servant, under bond for six years' service, and would not accept of any consideration, except a little tobacco, which I would have him accept, being of my own produce.
-- This looked severe, and convinced them that the governor was in ear-nest; however, they had no way left them but to accept it; and it was now the business of the prisoners, as much as of the captain, to persuade the other five to do their duty.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Willoughby's behaviour in taking leave of them, his embarrassment, and affectation of cheerfulness, and, above all, his unwillingness to accept her mother's invitation, a backwardness so unlike a lover, so unlike himself, greatly disturbed her.
-- Why else should he have shewn such unwillingness to accept your invitation here?
-- "It will not be in my power to accept their invitation if they do."
-- "I thank you, ma'am, sincerely thank you," said Marianne, with warmth: "your invitation has insured my gratitude for ever, and it would give me such happiness, yes, almost the greatest happiness I am capable of, to be able to accept it.
-- In a week or two, I suppose, we shall be going; and, I trust, Edward will not be very unwilling to accept the charge."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She, on the contrary, was not at all inclined to accept anything less than a complete fulfilment of the letter of their relationship, though the spirit might be wanting.
-- He would accept the situation with all its difficulties; he would not try to answer the objections which cold truth thrust upon him.
-- She knew that out in Chicago this very day the same factory chamber was full of poor homely-clad girls working in long lines at clattering machines; that at noon they would eat a miserable lunch in a half-hour; that Saturday they would gather, as they had when she was one of them, and accept the small pay for work a hundred times harder than she was now doing.
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