catch是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 捕捉, 捕获; 赶上; 感染; 理解, 听到,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:
-- The Indians fling them often at the distance of a hundred feet from the animal or enemy of which they are in pursuit, and with such precision that they catch round their legs and throw them down in an instant.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I whisked round and had just time to catch a glimpse of something which I took to be a large black calf passing at the head of the drive.
-- But there is nothing to eat unless he were to catch and slaughter one of the moor sheep.
-- We were just in time to catch a glimpse of the tall, black-bearded fig-ure, his shoulders rounded, as he tip-toed down the passage.
-- Has it never struck you that the way to catch that man was to find out where he got his food, and so trace it to him?'
-- There seemed to be no alternative but to catch him red-handed, and to do so we had to use Sir Henry, alone and apparently unprotected, as a bait.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'In the first place, you've no right in here at all; you ought to be in the waiting-room, because you're a sort of visitor a guest, in fact and I shall catch it for this.
-- And whenever the cross touched his lips, the eyes would open for a moment, and the legs moved once, and he kissed the cross greedily, hurriedly just as though he were anxious to catch hold of something in case of its being useful to him afterwards, though he could hardly have had any connected religious thoughts at the time.
-- He has tried to catch me ever since; he is still fishing for me.
-- Nastasia had thrown it off her towards the prince, expecting him to catch it, but the prince had missed it.
-- No sooner did she catch sight of Ardalion Alexandrovitch than she screamed: 'There he is, that wicked, mean wretch!I knew it was he!
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I tell you, therefore and it shall surely be that if I again catch you talking such nonsense, I will either forfeit my own head and be no more called father of Telemachus, or I will take you, strip you stark naked, and whip you out of the assem-bly till you go blubbering back to the ships.'
-- I am in two minds whether to catch him up out of the fight and set him down safe and sound in the fertile land of Lycia, or to let him now fall by the hand of the son of Menoetius.'
-- 'Alas,' said he to himself in his dismay, 'if I fly before mighty Achilles, and go where all the others are being driven in rout, he will none the less catch me and kill me for a coward.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And even as he did so the flap of the bar was shut down and the bolt clicked, and then with a tremendous thud the catch of the door snapped and the bar- parlour door burst open.
-- I tried to catch it, with an idea of putting it out of the window, but it wouldn't be caught, it vanished.
-- asking what was 'up,' and giving one another advice how to catch me.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I remember how my head swayed with the seas, and the horizon with the sail above it danced up and down; but I also remember as distinctly that I had a persuasion that I was dead, and that I thought what a jest it was that they should come too late by such a little to catch me in my body.
-- 'Little points to them,' said I, as calmly as possible, with a catch in my breath; 'and a fine black fur at the edges?'
-- By chance, one hopping to avoid us leapt into the hole caused by the uproot-ing of a wind-blown tree; before it could extricate itself we managed to catch it.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Haste!O haste!We we may catch them yet!'
-- Then they sleep and wake and sleep again, and weave little baskets of dried grass and put grass-hoppers in them; or catch two praying mantises and make them fight; or string a necklace of red and black jungle nuts; or watch a lizard basking on a rock, or a snake hunting a frog near the wallows.
-- All he wanted to do was to make a big circle uphill and get at the head of the ravine, and then take the bulls down it and catch Shere Khan between the bulls and the cows; for he knew that af-ter a meal and a full drink Shere Khan would not be in any condition to fight or to clamber up the sides of the ravine.
-- Sea Catch knew that, and every spring would swim from whatever place he happened to be in would swim like a torpedo-boat straight for Novastoshnah and spend a month fighting with his companions for a good place on the rocks, as close to the sea as possible.
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