wholly是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 完全地, 全部, 一概,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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He is so; but then he is wholly uneducated: he is as silent as a Turk, and a kind of ignorant carelessness attends him, which, while it renders his conduct the more astonishing, detracts from the interest and sympathy which otherwise he would command.
-- There was a show of grati-tude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doting fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behav-iour to her.
-- Clerval had never sympathized in my tastes for natural science, and his literary pursuits differed wholly from those 73which had occupied me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I looked as grateful as any boy possibly could, who was wholly uninformed why he ought to assume that expression.
-- "Now, follow that passage with your eye, and tell me whether it distinctly states that the prisoner expressly said that he was instructed by his legal advisers wholly to reserve his defence?
-- Why I was trying to pack mine into my tumbler, I am wholly unable to say.
-- It is not wholly irrespective of our personal feelings that we record HIM as the Mentor of our young Telemachus, for it is good to know that our town produced the founder of the latter's fortunes.
-- If you had brought up your adopted daughter wholly in the dark confinement of these rooms, and had never let her know that there was such a thing as the daylight by which she had never once seen your face,--if you had done that, and then, for a purpose had wanted her to understand the daylight and know all about it, you would have been disappointed and angry?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I find likewise that the writers of those bundles are not agreed among them-selves; for some of them will not allow me to be the author of my own travels; and others make me author of books to which I am wholly a stranger.
-- The emperor was already descended from the tower, and advancing on horse-back towards me, which had like to have cost him dear; for the beast, though very well trained, yet wholly unused to such a sight, which appeared as if a mountain moved before him, reared up on its hinder feet: but that prince, who is an excellent horseman, kept his seat, till his attendants ran in, and held the bridle, while his majesty had time to dismount.
-- In the mean time he ordered three thousand of his choicest troops (who then attended him) to surround me at a distance, with their bows and ar-rows just ready to discharge; but I did not observe it, for mine eyes were wholly fixed upon his majesty.
-- We compute the Tramecksan, or high heels, to exceed us in number; but the power is wholly on our side.
-- Accordingly, the next time I had the honour to see our emperor, I desired his general license to wait on the Blefuscudian monarch, which he was pleased to grant me, as I could perceive, in a very cold manner; but could not guess the reason, till I had a whisper from a cer-tain person, 'that Flimnap and Bolgolam had represented my intercourse with those ambassadors as a mark of dis-affection;' from which I am sure my heart was wholly free.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nor could any such spectator fail to know in his own breast, that these men, through their very delusions, showed great qualities, susceptible of being turned to the happiest and best account; and that to pretend (on the strength of sweeping axioms, howsoever cut and dried) that they went astray wholly without cause, and of their own irrational wills, was to pretend that there could be smoke without fire, death without birth, harvest without seed, anything or everything produced from nothing.
-- He had been so wholly unprepared for what he heard now, that it was with difficulty he answered, 'Yes, Louisa.'
-- I was not wholly indifferent, for I had a hope of being pleasant and useful to Tom.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There are words which are composed wholly of consonants, such as mm.rnlls, others which are nearly all vowels, the fifth, for instance, which is unteief, and one of the last oseibo.
-- My remarks as to the temperature, the quality, and even as to the possibility of none being found, remained wholly without effect.
-- Conversation was wholly impossible.
-- Looking up, every now and then, at the height of the great volcano of Sneffels, it appeared to me wholly impossible to reach to the summit on that side; at all events, if the angle of inclination did not speedily change.
-- Fortunately, after an hour of unheard-of fatigues, and of gymnastic exercises that would have been trying to an acrobat, we came to a vast field of ice, which wholly surrounded the bottom of the cone of the volcano.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As to Beadle, that I needn't say was wholly out of the question.
-- I was wholly unprepared for your announcement, and hope that assurance is my sufficient apology for having taken the liberty of addressing you.
-- Then would he be there to tell that honourable gentleman that, although the Circumlocution Office was invariably right and wholly right, it never was so right as in this matter.
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