offer是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 提出; 表示; n. 提供; 提议,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:
-- The high-spirited Duncan felt a powerful impulse of admiration and pity toward the former, though no op-portunity could offer to exhibit his generous emotions.
-- Per-ceiving that the men were unable to offer any resistance, he turned his looks on her he valued most.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He made no offer of molestation or socia-bility, but kept aloof on one side of the road, jogging along on the blind side of old Gunpowder, who had now got over his fright and waywardness.
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:
-- The artist has this advantage over the rest of the world, that his friends offer not only their appearance and their character to his satire, but also their work.
-- "I suppose the law has some protection to offer them."
-- It needed a good deal of firmness and still more patience to induce him to come, but he was really too ill to offer any effective resistance to Stroeve's entreaties and to my determination.
-- Life had a great deal to offer her.
-- They offer the imagination something new and strange.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The reporter, to whom his tedious captivity did not offer a single incident worthy of note, could stand it no longer.
-- The cliff, as has been said, rose to a height of three hundred feet, but the mass was unbroken throughout, and even at its base, scarcely washed by the sea, it did not offer the smallest fissure which would serve as a dwelling.
-- "As for me," said the sailor, "if I ever grumble at work, my name's not Jack Pencroft, and if you like, captain, we will make a little America of this island!We will build towns, we will establish railways, start telegraphs, and one fine day, when it is quite changed, quite put in order and quite civilized, we will go and offer it to the government of the Union.
-- "We will not ask more from it," replied the sailor, During this excursion they saw several wild boars, which however, did not offer to attack the little band, and it appeared as if they would not meet with any dangerous beasts; when, in a thick part of the wood, the reporter thought he saw, some paces from him, among the lower branches of a tree, an animal which he took for a bear, and which he very tranquilly began to draw.
-- It was like the mouth of a drain at the edge of the pavement, and therefore did not offer an easy passage to the settlers; but Neb and Pencroft, taking their pickaxes, soon made it of a suitable height.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Never mind,' said the boy, nodding his head and rubbing it at the same time; 'you see if ever I offer to strike anybody again because they say you're an uglier dwarf than can be seen anywheres for a penny, that's all.'
-- Hence she had at last consented to play off against Richard Swiveller a stricken market-gardner known to be ready with his offer on the smallest encouragement, and hence as this occasion had been specially assigned for the purpose that great anxiety on her part for Richard Swiveller's presence which had occasioned her to leave the note he has been seen to receive.
-- Don't offer to leave us not on any account but always stick to me and say that I'm your friend.
-- Soon after sunrise in the morning she stole out from the tent, and rambling into some fields at a short distance, plucked a few wild roses and such humble flowers, purposing to make them into little nosegays and offer them to the ladies in the carriages when the company arrived.
-- The child bore upon her arm the little basket with her flowers, and sometimes stopped, with timid and modest looks, to offer them at some gay carriage; but alas!there were many bolder beggars there, gipsies who promised husbands, and other adepts in their trade, and although some ladies smiled gently as they shook their heads, and others cried to the gentlemen beside them 'See, what a pretty face!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her fashionable dress, cape and hat won her the respect of her aunt, who no longer dared to offer her work as a washerwoman, considering her present position far above it.
-- But Nekhludoff, besides the usual irresoluteness before marriage of people of his age, and who are not passionately in love, had an important reason for withholding his offer of marriage for the time being.
-- But there was no cause for his agitation; the husband, as commander of the district where Nekhludoff's estates were situated, informed the latter of a special meeting of the local governing body, and asked him to be present without fail, and donner un coup d'脙漏paule in the important measures to be submitted concerning the schools and roads, and that the reactionary party was expected to offer strong opposition.
-- Rabelais relates the story of a jurist who was trying a case, and who, after citing innumerable laws and reading twenty pages of incomprehensible judicial Latin, made an offer to the litigants to throw dice; if an even number fell then the plaintiff was right; if an odd number the defendant was right.
-- He expected that his offer would be accepted with pleasure, but there was no sign of satisfaction.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was growing more and more excited, and this alarmed me for my father, who was very low that day and needed quiet; besides, I was reassured by the doctor's words, now quoted to me, and rather offended by the offer of a bribe.
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