tip是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 尖端; 末端; 小费n. /v. 轻击; 倾斜; 给小费,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:
-- I gave him a tip of fifteen roubles, and told him to get the carriage ready at once.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried.
-- "When I came into this room," continued the Invisible Man, after presenting the poker to the tip of the nose of each of his visitors, "I did not expect to find it occupied, and I expected to find, in addition to my books of memoranda, an outfit of clothing.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, Neb having tightened his grasp on his stick, was just going to fell the pig, when the latter, tearing itself from Top's teeth, by which it was only held by the tip of its ear, uttered a vigorous grunt, rushed upon Herbert, almost overthrew him, and disappeared in the wood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- (Punch, it may be remarked, seemed to be pointing with the tip of his cap to a most flourishing epitaph, and to be chuckling over it with all his heart.)
-- In complexion Miss Brass was sallow rather a dirty sallow, so to speak but this hue was agreeably relieved by the healthy glow which mantled in the extreme tip of her laughing nose.
-- Opinion was divided whether she was the daughter of a prince, a duke, an earl, a viscount, or a baron, but all agreed upon the main fact, and that the single gentleman was her father; and all bent forward to catch a glimpse, though it were only of the tip of his noble nose, as he rode away, desponding, in his four-horse chaise.
-- The face, horribly seared by the frequent application of the red-hot poker, and further ornamented by the insertion, in the tip of the nose, of a tenpenny nail, yet smiled blandly in its less lacerated parts, and seemed, like a sturdy martyr, to provoke its tormentor to the commission of new outrages and insults.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, if I can't get away nohow, and they tip me the black spot, mind you, it's my old sea-chest they're after; you get on a horse you can, can't you?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He put this second one so perseveringly that a stool and twelve shillings a week were at last found for Tip in the office of an attorney in a great National Palladium called the Palace Court; at that time one of a considerable list of everlasting bulwarks to the dignity and safety of Albion, whose places know them no more.
-- Tip languished in Clifford's Inns for six months, and at the expiration of that term sauntered back one evening with his hands in his pockets, and incidentally observed to his sister that he was not going back again.
-- Tip tired of everything.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was on the tip of Jo's tongue to ask, but she checked herself in time and, with unusual tact, tried to find out in a round-about way.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But if, like Queequeg and me in the bed, the tip of your nose or the crown of your head be slightly chilled, why then, indeed, in the general consciousness you feel most delightfully and unmistakably warm.
-- "I can't see three seas off; tip us up an oar there, and let me on to that."
-- It was a sight full of quick wonder and awe!The vast swells of the omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as they rolled along the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a boundless bowling-green; the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two; the sudden profound dip into the watery glens and hollows; the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of the opposite hill; the headlong, sled-like slide down its other side; all these, with the cries of the headsmen and harpooneers, and the shuddering gasps of the oarsmen, with the wondrous sight of the ivory Pequod bearing down upon her boats with outstretched sails, like a wild hen after her screaming brood; all this was thrilling.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Also, he had been wont to pay fifteen cents for a shave, and a tip of ten cents.
-- In his first distress, he cut down the tip to five, then to nothing.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We went gliding swift along, dead silent, past the tip of the paddle- box, and past the stern; then in a second or two more we was a hundred yards below the wreck, and the darkness soaked her up, every last sign of her, and we was safe, and knowed it.
-- As we went by our house I wished I hadn't sent Mary Jane out of town; because now if I could tip her the wink she'd light out and save me, and blow on our dead-beats.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His real name was Mastro Antonio, but everyone called him Mastro Cherry, for the tip of his nose was so round and red and shiny that it looked like a ripe cherry.
-- His face had changed; fright had turned even the tip of his nose from red to deepest purple.
-- As soon as they were done, Geppetto felt a sharp kick on the tip of his nose.
-- Pinocchio ran to him and scurrying like a squirrel up the long black beard, he gave Fire Eater a loving kiss on the tip of his nose.
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