ride是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 骑, 乘,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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Will your mother ride the new horse to the Wilkes barbecue tomorrow?"
-- They had known her for years, and, since their childhood, she had been a favorite playmate, for shecould ride horses and climb trees almost as well as they.
-- Give me a good horse to ride and some good licker to drink and a good girl to court and abad girl to have fun with and anybody can have their Europe.
-- Let's ride across the swamp to AbelWynder's place and tell him we're all four home again and ready for drill."
-- She had wanted him, in that first instant, wanted him as simply and unreasoningly as she wanted food to eat,horses to ride and a soft bed on which to lay herself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Two dismally absurd persons, each ostentatiously exhibiting a crutch done up in a black bandage,--as if that instrument could possibly communicate any comfort to anybody,--were posted at the front door; and in one of them I recognized a postboy discharged from the Boar for turning a young couple into a sawpit on their bridal morning, in consequence of intoxication rendering it necessary for him to ride his horse clasped round the neck with both arms.
-- My gentleman must have horses, Pip!Horses to ride, and horses to drive, and horses for his servant to ride and drive as well.
-- I am going out for a ride in the saddle.
-- The lady won't ride to-day; the weather won't do."
-- You quite understand that the young lady don't ride to-day, and that I dine at the young lady's?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All went right: then the fox said, 'When you come to the castle where the bird is, I will stay with the princess at the door, and you will ride in and speak to the king; and when he sees that it is the right horse, he will bring out the bird; but you must sit still, and say that you want to look at it, to see whether it is the true golden bird; and when you get it into your hand, ride away.'
-- said Hans aloud, 'what a fine thing it is to ride on horseback!There he sits as easy and happy as if he was at home, in the chair by his fireside; he trips against no stones, saves shoe-leather, and gets on he hardly knows how.'
-- Now this king and queen had plenty of money, and plen-ty of fine clothes to wear, and plenty of good things to eat and drink, and a coach to ride out in every day: but though they had been married many years they had no children, and this grieved them very much indeed.
-- And she gave her a waiting-maid to ride with her, and give her into the bridegroom's hands; and each had a horse for the journey.
-- So when the bride had done drinking, and would have got upon Falada again, the maid said, 'I shall ride upon Falada, and you may have my horse instead'; so she was forced to give up her horse, and soon afterwards to take off her royal clothes and put on her maid's shabby ones.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My master made his daughter Glumdalclitch ride behind him.
-- Two of them came on board in less than half an hour, by whom we were guided between certain shoals and rocks, which are very dangerous in the passage, to a large basin, where a fleet may ride in safety within a cable's length of the town-wall.
-- All my retinue was that poor lad for an interpreter, whom I per-suaded into my service, and, at my humble request, we had each of us a mule to ride on.
-- Upon the strength of this reasoning, I ventured to address them in the following manner: 'Gentlemen, if you be conjurers, as I have good cause to believe, you can understand my lan-guage; therefore I make bold to let your worships know that I am a poor distressed Englishman, driven by his misfor-tunes upon your coast; and I entreat one of you to let me ride upon his back, as if he were a real horse, to some house or village where I can be relieved.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The father of one of the families was in the habit of balancing the father of another of the families on the top of a great pole; the father of a third family often made a pyramid of both those fathers, with Master Kidderminster for the apex, and himself for the base; all the fathers could dance upon rolling casks, stand upon bottles, catch knives and balls, twirl hand-basins, ride upon anything, jump over everything, and stick at nothing.
-- As he had rather a long ride to take that day for there was a public occasion 'to do' at some distance, which afforded a tolerable opportunity of going in for the Gradgrind men he dressed early and went down to breakfast.
-- 'Shall I ride up to the house a few minutes hence, innocently supposing that its master is at home and will be charmed to receive me?'
-- Then a horse was found; and she got another man to ride for life or death to the railroad, and send a message to Louisa, which she wrote and gave him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To ride over salt water upon the back of a little horse seemed to me absurd.
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