nose是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 鼻子; (飞机, 船等的) 前端, 突出部分,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And now the sun went quite down; the gloomy night came; the 19owl flew into a bush; and a moment after the old fairy came forth pale and meagre, with staring eyes, and a nose and chin that almost met one another.
-- He inspect-ed each one, lifted it up, put his nose to it, and at length said: 'The jam seems to me to be good, so weigh me out four ounces, dear woman, and if it is a quarter of a pound that is of no consequence.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- About four hours after we began our journey, I awaked by a very ridiculous accident; for the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep; they climbed up into the engine, and advancing very softly to my face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his half-pike a good way up into my left nostril, which tickled my nose like a straw, and made me sneeze violently; whereupon they stole off un-perceived, and it was three weeks before I knew the cause of my waking so suddenly.
-- In speaking, they pronounced through the nose and throat, and their language approaches nearest to the High-Dutch, or German, of any I know in Europe; but is much more graceful and significant.
-- I was at last bold enough to walk the street in his company, but kept my nose well stopped with rue, or sometimes with tobacco.
-- Yet, the smell of a Yahoo continuing very offensive, I always keep my nose well stopped with rue, lavender, or tobacco leaves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And here she was now, in her elderly days, with the Coriolanian style of nose and the dense black eyebrows which had captivated Sparsit, making Mr. Bounderby's tea as he took his breakfast.
-- Mrs. Sparsit's Coriolanian nose underwent a slight expansion of the nostrils, and her black eyebrows contracted as she took a sip of tea.
-- Now you know;' here his countenance expressed marvellous acuteness; 'I can see as far into a grindstone as another man; farther than a good many, perhaps, because I had my nose well kept to it when I was young.
-- 'It is much to be regretted,' said Mrs. Sparsit, making her nose more Roman and her eyebrows more Coriolanian in the strength of her severity, 'that the united masters allow of any such class-combinations.'
-- Tom took his cigar out of his mouth, to shut up his eye (which had grown rather unmanageable) with the greater expression, and to tap his nose several times with his finger.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Large spectacles hid, to a certain extent, his vast, round, and goggle eyes, while his nose was irreverently compared to a thin file.
-- The truth being told, however, the only article really attracted to my uncle's nose was tobacco.
-- Never had his eyes appeared so fierce, his nose so aquiline, his mouth so hard and firm.
-- It measured no less than thirty feet from the nose to the tail.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Miss Bentley was a shallow old maid with a rather large nose and romantic disposition who served tea with a careful intensity worthy of a sacrament.
-- At last he sighed, and blew his nose on his red handker-chief.
-- Maybe ' He spread out his hand with a gesture, and then he sneezed, sneezing away the flowers from his nose and his navel.
-- said Hilda, lifting her nose slightly with dis-gust: a she had from her mother.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His moustache went up under his nose, and his nose came down over his moustache, in a very sinister and cruel manner.
-- Then, as he paused in his drink to contemplate his fellow-prisoner, his moustache went up, and his nose came down.
-- Again his moustache went up, and his nose came down.
-- Under one arm he carried a limp and worn-out case, containing some wind instrument; in the same hand he had a pennyworth of snuff in a little packet of whitey-brown paper, from which he slowly comforted his poor blue old nose with a lengthened-out pinch, as Arthur Clennam looked at him.
-- As she placed the soup before the guest, who changed his attitude to a sitting one, he looked her full in the face, and his moustache went up under his nose, and his nose came down over his moustache.
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