pillow是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 枕头,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She bent forward and put her hand on the pillow and then under the clothes.
-- The invisible rag upset her a bit; you should have seen her spit at it!But I made her comfortable on the pillow of my truckle-bed.
-- After I'd given the stuff to bleach the blood and done certain other things to her, I gave the beast opium, and put her and the pillow she was sleeping on, on the apparatus.
-- I stopped the gas engine, felt for and stroked the beast, which was still insensible, and then, being tired, left it sleeping on the invisible pillow and went to bed.
-- The invisible rag and pillow came to hand and I opened the window and pitched them out on to the cistern cover.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I let his head fall gently upon the rough pillow I had made for him, and stood up.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Duncan cast the wide shawl of Cora before a spectacle he so much loved to contemplate, and then suffered his own head to seek a pillow on the rock.
-- Her head is too good to find a pillow in the wigwam of Le Re-nard; will she like it better when it rolls about this hill a plaything for the wolves?
-- The merriment of Uncas instantly ceased; and carefully raking the coals in such a manner that they should impart their warmth to his fa-ther's feet, the youth sought his own pillow among the ruins of the place.
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:
-- Her pillow is all wet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After praying fervently, and with many bursting tears, for the old man, and the restoration of his peace of mind and the happiness they had once enjoyed, she would lay her head upon the pillow and sob herself to sleep: often starting up again, before the day-light came, to listen for the bell and respond to the imaginary summons which had roused her from her slumber.
-- The old man covered his face with his hands, and hid it in the pillow of the couch on which he lay.
-- Day after day, and night after night, found her still by the pillow of the unconscious sufferer, still anticipating his every want, still listening to those repetitions of her name and those anxieties and cares for her, which were ever uppermost among his feverish wanderings.
-- There she sat, intent upon her game, coughing now and then in a subdued manner as if she feared to disturb him shuffling the cards, cutting, dealing, playing, counting, pegging going through all the mysteries of cribbage as if she had been in full practice from her cradle!Mr Swiveller contemplated these things for a short time, and suffering the curtain to fall into its former position, laid his head on the pillow again.
-- Dick was about to answer that he felt much better, though still as weak as need be, when his little nurse, pushing the visitors aside and pressing up to his pillow as if in jealousy of their interference, set his breakfast before him, and insisted on his taking it before he underwent the fatigue of speaking or of being spoken to.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Between us, with much trouble, we managed to hoist him upstairs, and laid him on his bed, where his head fell back on the pillow as if he were almost fainting.
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