senseless是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 愚蠢的, 无意义的,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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They belong to the tribe; they were a sort of small change thrown among the mourners, and the moment the sacrifice was over, the whole crowd, chiefs, warriors, old men, women, children, without distinction of age, or sex, fell upon the senseless remains with brutal appetite.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'My goodness me!and I gave him twenty-five roubles this morning as though he were a beggar,' blurted out the gen-eral, half senseless with amazement.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And yet he did care something for the streets that en-vironed that house, and for the senseless stones that made their pavements.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He read the leading article, in which it was maintained that it was quite senseless in our day to raise an outcry that radicalism was threatening to swallow up all conservative elements, and that the government ought to take measures to crush the revolutionary hydra; that, on the contrary, "in our opinion the danger lies not in that fantastic revolutionary hydra, but in the obstinacy of traditionalism clogging progress," etc., etc.
-- And afterwards, how he had all at once broken out: he had associated with the most horrible people, and rushed into the most senseless debauchery.
-- But as soon as she opened her mouth, a stream of reproach, of senseless jealousy, of all that had been torturing her during that half hour which she had spent sitting motionless at the window, burst from her.
-- And this sense was so painful at first, the apprehension lest this helpless creature should suffer was so intense, that it prevented him from noticing the strange thrill of senseless joy and even pride that he had felt when the baby sneezed.
-- And could one say anything more senseless than what he said?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then in senseless terror he rushed to the corner, to that hole under the paper where he had put the things; put his hand in, and for some minutes felt carefully in the hole, in every crack and fold of the paper.
-- He stood as though lost in thought, and a strange, hu-miliated, half senseless smile strayed on his lips.
-- 530 Crime and PunishmentChapter II t would be difficult to explain exactly what could have Ioriginated the idea of that senseless dinner in Katerina Ivanovna's disordered brain.
-- They say it is necessary for me to suffer!What's the object of these senseless sufferings?
-- Men killed each other in a sort of senseless spite.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Aye, I remember it all now; all, except your saving this relic I knew nothing of that till this moment but the cutting the finger, and my recommending court-plaister, and saying I had none about me! Oh!my sins, my sins! And I had plenty all the while in my pocket! One of my senseless tricks! I deserve to be under a continual blush all the rest of my life. Well (sitting down again) go on what else?'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats; but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race.
-- For a moment only did I lose recol-lection; I fell senseless on the ground.
-- 'Or whither does your senseless curiosity lead you?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You senseless goose!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We advance, like senseless lunatics, towards this mighty mass.
-- Then all went out and darkness once more fell upon the deep!I had just time to see my uncle once more cast apparently senseless on the flooring of the raft, Hans at the helm, "spitting fire" under the influence of the electricity which seemed to have gone through him.
-- It lay there, a last remnant of all our great preparations for the mad and senseless journey!
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I began to grow vexed with him; it seemed so downright senseless and insane to be sitting there all day and half the night on his hams in a cold room, holding a piece of wood on his head.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When we told them how we placed ourselves and the horses in the middle, they blamed us exceedingly, and told us it was fifty to one but we had been all destroyed, for it was the sight of the horses which made the wolves so furious, seeing their prey, and that at other times they are really afraid of a gun; but being ex-cessively hungry, and raging on that account, the eagerness to come at the horses had made them senseless of danger, and that if we had not by the continual fire, and at last by the stratagem of the train of powder, mastered them, it had been great odds but that we had been torn to pieces; where-as, had we been content to have sat still on horseback, and fired as horsemen, they would not have taken the horses so much for their own, when men were on their backs, as oth-erwise; and withal, they told us that at last, if we had stood altogether, and left our horses, they would have been so ea-ger to have devoured them, that we might have come off safe, especially having our firearms in our hands, being so many in number.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- and fell senseless to the ground.
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