standing是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 持续, 期间; 身分, 地位, 名望; a. 永存的, 常务的,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:
-- Finding all his efforts baffled by the Major's indifference, the mysterious passenger seized his telescope, drew it out to its fullest extent, about four feet, and began gazing at the horizon, standing motionless with his legs wide apart.
-- Of course it was the Major who suggested looking for him, and he was not far off, for about fifty paces from the RIO a man of very tall stature was seen standing motionless on the lowest crags at the foot of the mountain.
-- His waiting attitude was full of dignity; indeed, to see him standing grave and motionless on his pedestal of rocks, one might have taken him for a statue of sang-froid.
-- "Yes, my Lord," replied the boy, standing up, gun in hand.
-- He thought of the lad standing there, and of his companions and those left behind, whom he loved so dearly.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was convinced that Margaret had fixed on a person whose name she could not bear with composure to become a standing joke with Mrs. Jennings.
-- They had not remained in this manner long, before Elinor perceived Willoughby, standing within a few yards of them, in earnest conversation with a very fashionable looking young woman.
-- All that could be done was, to sit down at that end of the counter which seemed to promise the quickest succession; one gentleman only was standing there, and it is probable that Elinor was not without hope of exciting his politeness to a quicker despatch.
-- His property here, his place, his house, every thing is in such respectable and excellent condition! and his woods! I have not seen such timber any where in Dorsetshire, as there is now standing in Delaford Hanger! And though, perhaps, Marianne may not seem exactly the person to attract him yet I think it would altogether be advisable for you to have them now frequently staying with you, for as Colonel Brandon seems a great deal at home, nobody can tell what may happen for, when people are much thrown together, and see little of anybody else and it will always be in your power to set her off to advantage, and so forth; in short, you may as well give her a chance You understand me.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Frequently there were two-story frame houses standing out in the open fields, without fence or trees, lone outposts of the approaching army of homes.
-- He walked away and left her standing by the elevator, never so much as inquiring her name.
-- The first floor of the building, of which Hanson's flat was the third, was occupied by a bakery, and to this, while she was standing there, Hanson came down to buy a loaf of bread.
-- Standing at the street door looking out, she ventured to walk out a little way.
-- His fine success as a salesman lay in his geniality and the thoroughly reputable standing of his house.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was funny they hadn't come in, after standing around so.
-- Pap was standing over me looking sourQand sick, too.
-- I rose up, and there was Jackson's Island, about two mile and a half down stream, heavy timbered and standing up out of the middle of the river, big and dark and solid, like a steamboat without any lights.
-- Then in there I see a man stretched on the floor and tied hand and foot, and two men standing over him, and one of them had a dim lantern in his hand, and the other one had a pistol.
-- It was a picture of a young woman in a long white gown, standing on the rail of a bridge all ready to jump off, with her hair all down her back, and looking up to the moon, with the tears run-ning down her face, and she had two arms folded across her breast, and two arms stretched out in front, and two more reaching up towards the moon and the idea was to see which pair would look best, and then scratch out all the other arms; but, as I was saying, she died before she got her mind made up, and now they kept this picture over the head of the bed in her room, and every time her birthday come they hung flowers on it.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Suddenly, he found himself in a large square, full of people standing in front of a little wooden building painted in brilliant colors.
-- "I saw him yesterday standing at the door of his house."
-- Pinocchio, standing before him, told his pitiful tale, word by word.
-- And Pinocchio, standing on a high rock, tired out with searching, waved to him with hand and cap and even with his nose.
-- "But, then, how is it that you, who a few minutes ago were a donkey, are now standing before me a wooden Marionette?"
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