bird是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 鸟, 雀; 女人; 嘘声,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The carol of the birds was loud and high, and, on the weather-beaten sill of the great window of the bedchamber of Monsieur the Mar-quis, one little bird sang its sweetest song with all its might.
-- 'We were so robbed by that man who stands there, as all we common dogs are by those superior Beings taxed by him without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and forbidden for our lives to keep a single tame bird of our own, pillaged and plundered to that degree that when we chanced to have a bit of meat, we ate it in fear, with the door barred and the shut-ters closed, that his people should not see it and take it from 463us I say, we were so robbed, and hunted, and were made so poor, that our father told us it was a dreadful thing to bring a child into the world, and that what we should most pray for, was, that our women might be barren and our miser-able race die out!'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'How much the bird reminds me of the musical box that belonged to our blessed Empress,' said an old knight.
-- 'Well then let the bird fly,' said the Princess; and she positively re-fused to see the Prince.
-- He gave the noisy bird a knock on his beak, and walked on.
-- Every-thing else that he said was as unintelligible to everybody as the chirping of the Canary, except to the clerk, who was now a bird too: he understood his companion perfectly.
-- The little boy was frightened, and jumped down from the chair; it seemed to him as if, at the same moment, a large bird flew past the window.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was flying straight towards him; the guttural cry, like the even tearing of some strong stuff, sounded close to his ear; the long beak and neck of the bird could be seen, and at the very instant when Levin was taking aim, behind the bush where Oblonsky stood, there was a flash of red lightning: the bird dropped like an arrow, and darted upwards again.
-- Again came the red flash and the sound of a blow, and fluttering its wings as though trying to keep up in the air, the bird halted, stopped still and instant, and fell with a heavy splash on the slushy ground.
-- said Levin, pointing to Laska, who with one ear raised, wagging the end of her shaggy tail, came slowly back as though she would prolong the pleasure, and as it were smiling, brought the dead bird to her master.
-- It was quite still now in the copse, and not a bird was stirring.
-- he said, taking the warm bird from Laska's mouth and packing it into the almost full game bag.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The distance between Bombay and Calcutta, as the bird flies, is only from one thousand to eleven hundred miles; but the deflections of the road increase this distance by more than a third.
-- His first care, after being thus "Japanesed," was to enter a tea-house of modest appearance, and, upon half a bird and a little rice, to breakfast like a man for whom dinner was as yet a problem to be solved.
-- Neither flight of bird nor passing of beast troubled the perfect calm.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Oh, no; the bird that succeeds is the one that gets an office on a northeast corner, near a trolley car junction, with a 'phone number that'll be easy for patients to remember!Honest!He said so!I swear, when I graduate I believe I'll be a ship's doctor.
-- Whenever he drifted into one of his meditations on the superiority of his brand of truth to Pickerbaugh's, he snarled, "You're a fine bird to think about truth, you liar!"
-- He insisted that there is no Truth but only many truths; that Truth is not a colored bird to be chased among the rocks and captured by its tail, but a skeptical attitude toward life.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sonia was agitated again and even angry, as though a canary or some other little bird were to be angry.
-- I saw at once that the bird was flying into the cage of herself.
-- What terrible agonies and privations some of them, the tramps for instance, had endured!Could they care so much for a ray of sunshine, for the primeval forest, the cold spring hidden away in some unseen spot, which the tramp had marked three years before, and longed to see again, as he might to see his sweetheart, dreaming of the green grass round it and the bird singing in the bush?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Among them I remember a double set ofpigs' trotters, a huge pin-cushion, half a bushel or so of apples, apair of jet ear- rings, some Spanish onions, a box of dominoes, acanary bird and cage, and a leg of pickled pork.
-- We dined soon after I awoke, off a roast fowl and a pudding; Isitting at table, not unlike a trussed bird myself, and moving myarms with considerable difficulty.
-- As to myself, Copperfield, I give you myword, I felt a perfect bird of prey towards the family.'
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