box是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 盒, 箱; 包厢v. 把…装箱; 拳击, 打耳光,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Oh, no!He takes her to his box at the opera at the French theatre of an evening, and the officers and people all look at her and say, 'By Jove, there's the famous Nastasia Philipovna!'
-- So after awhile she brought the box and flew out at him.
-- Oh, non-sense!Here have I been sitting in my box at the French theatre for the last five years like a statue of inaccessible vir-tue, and kept out of the way of all admirers, like a silly little idiot!Now, there's this man, who comes and pays down his hundred thousand on the table, before you all, in spite of my five years of innocence and proud virtue, and I dare be sworn he has his sledge outside waiting to carry me off.
-- He crept up and read over Ptitsin's shoulder, with the air of a naughty boy who expects a box on the ear every moment for his indiscretion.
-- 'Are you tempting me to box your ears for you, or what?'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I tell you plainly, and it shall come true; if any man will box with me I will bruise his body and break his bones; therefore let his friends stay here in a body and be at hand to take him away when I have done with him.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were a couple of trunks indeed, such as a rational man might need, but in addition there were a box of books big, fat books, of which some were just in an incomprehensible handwriting and a dozen or more crates, boxes, and cases, containing objects packed in straw, as it seemed to Hall, tugging with a casual curiosity at the straw glass bottles.
-- And directly the crates were unpacked, the stranger went to the window and set to work, not troubling in the least about the litter of straw, the fire which had gone out, the box of books outside, nor for the trunks and other luggage that had gone upstairs.
-- Silver!A diamond box would neither absorb much of the light nor reflect much from the general surface, but just here and there where the surfaces were favourable the light would be reflected and refracted, so that you would get a brilliant appearance of flashing reflections and translucencies a sort of skeleton of light.
-- A glass box would not be so brilliant, not so clearly visible, as a diamond box, because there would be less refraction and reflection.
-- Some kinds of glass would be more visible than others, a box of flint glass would be brighter than a box of ordinary window glass.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Farther under the star-board bulwark were some big hutches containing a number of rabbits, and a solitary llama was squeezed in a mere box of a cage forward.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts, but he had a mistrust of men because Bagheera showed him a square box with a drop gate so cun-ningly hidden in the jungle that he nearly walked into it, and told him that it was a trap.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My poor mother was very proud of my gift, and she gave me a box of water-colours as a present.
-- Under a cover were the remains of a piece of cheese, and in a tin box was a crust of bread.
-- Beside them I own nothing in the world now but a box of clothes and a few books."
-- He worked his passage on a sailing vessel that was making the trip from Auckland to San Francisco, and he arrived with a box of paints, an easel, and a dozen canvases.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "The box must have fallen out of my pocket and got lost!Surely, Herbert, you must have something a tinder-box anything that can possibly make fire!"
-- The box was of copper, and therefore would have been easily seen.
-- If the box had fallen at this place it must have been swept away by the waves.
-- "No, my boy," replied the sailor; "they were in a copper box which shut very tightly; and now what are we to do?"
-- The loss of the box was certainly to be regretted, but the boy was still sure of procuring fire in some way or other.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Having seen the old lady safely in her seat, and assisted in the arrangement of her cloak and a small basket which formed an indispensable portion of her equipage, Mr Abel got into a little box behind which had evidently been made for his express accommodation, and smiled at everybody present by turns, beginning with his mother and ending with the pony.
-- To these succeeded pert cottages, two and two with plots of ground in front, laid out in angular beds with stiff box borders and narrow paths between, where footstep never strayed to make the gravel rough.
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