obedient是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 服从的, 顺从的,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:
-- The animals fed as they went along, and slaked their thirst at the numerous creeks that watered the plains, sleeping at night and making good progress in the day, always obedient and tractable to the dogs.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You'd have settled down in this house of yours with some silent and obedient wife.
-- 'Of course I know they say that one must be obedient, and of course, too, the prince is one of those who say so: that one must be obedient without questions, out of pure goodness of heart, and that for my worthy conduct in this matter I shall meet with reward in another world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend,' observed the Mar-quis, 'will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof,' looking up to it, 'shuts out the sky.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He did not in his heart respect his mother, and without acknowledging it to himself, he did not love her, though in accordance with the ideas of the set in which he lived, and with his own education, he could not have conceived of any behavior to his mother not in the highest degree respectful and obedient, and the more externally obedient and respectful his behavior, the less in his heart he respected and loved her.
-- "It will make no difference," said Madame Lvova; "we're all obedient wives; it's in our family."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I already have two who are obedient and faithful, have never left me, and serve me for their nourishment and here they are," added he, holding out his two robust arms, furrowed with veins as large as the strings of a bass-viol.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was placidly astonished when he clumped away with none of the obedient reverence which any example of cultured American womanhood has a right to expect from all males, even foreigners.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was timidly following her, when sheturned round at the parlour-door, in the dusk, and taking me inher embrace as she had been used to do, whispered me to love mynew father and be obedient to him.
-- Then she would tellJip to lie down on the table instantly, 'like a lion'- which was one ofhis tricks, though I cannot say the likeness was striking- and, if hewere in an obedient humour, he would obey.
-- 'When it was clear,' he said, with infinite respectability,and an obedient bow, 'that she was not to be found, I went to Mr.James, at the place where it had been agreed that I should write tohim, and informed him of what had occurred.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With her younger daughters, she hadsuccess, for Suellen was so anxious to be attractive she lent an attentive and obedient ear to her mother's teachings,and Carreen was shy and easily led.
-- Gerald raised it, obedient as a child, and gulped noisily.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The first day she was very obedient and industrious, and exerted herself to please Mother Holle, for she thought of the gold she should get in return.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Farewell, Thethilia!My latht wordth to you ith thith, Thtick to the termth of your engagement, be obedient to the Thquire, and forget uth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr Blandois was Mr Flintwinch's most obedient humble servant.
-- With which they requested a stamped receipt, and remained his obedient servants.
-- 'And there it ends!I am your son's obedient servant.
-- 'You are very obedient indeed really and it's extremely honourable and gentlemanly in you I am sure but still at the same time if you would like to be a little tighter than that I shouldn't consider it intruding.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood is by the cord; and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest insect.
-- The life-buoy a long slender cask was dropped from the stern, where it always hung obedient to a cunning spring; but no hand rose to seize it, and the sun having long beat upon this cask it had shrunken, so that it slowly filled, and that parched wood also filled at its every pore; and the studded iron-bound cask followed the sailor to the bottom, as if to yield him his pillow, though in sooth but a hard one.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- the Word of God; and we had, blessed be God, comfortable views of the Spirit of God teaching and instructing by His word, leading us into all truth, and making us both willing and obedient to the instruction of His word.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But from now on, I'll be different and I'll try to become a most obedient boy.
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