wisdom是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 智慧, 才智, 明智的思想言论,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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I am certainly developing the wisdom of the serpent, for when Mortimer pressed his questions to an inconvenient extent I asked him casually to what type Frankland's skull belonged, and so heard nothing but craniology for the rest of our drive.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now he is telling all his wisdom to the kites, but he told me everything before I broke his back.
-- There-fore all the wild elephants to-night will but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?'
-- Parade Song of the Camp Animals ELEPHANTS OF THE GUN TEAMS We lent to Alexander the strength of Hercules, The wisdom of our foreheads, the cunning of our knees; We bowed our necks to service: they ne'er were loosed again, Make way there way for the ten-foot teams Of the Forty-Pounder train!
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:
-- 'How can such a wish be doubted!Have I not already of-fered ' 'Offer your prayers to Him who can give us wisdom to circumvent the cunning of the devils who fill these woods,' calmly interrupted the scout, 'but spare your offers of mon-ey, which neither you may live to realize, nor I to profit by.
-- 'Wisdom is sometimes given to the young, as well as to the old,' he said; 'and what you have spoken is wise, not to call it by a better word.
-- Yes, Magua, I see it all, and I have already been thinking how so much wisdom and hon-esty should be repaid.
-- 'Alice,' she said, 'the Huron offers us both life, nay, more than both; he offers to restore Duncan, our invaluable Dun-can, as well as you, to our friends to our father to our heart-stricken, childless father, if I will bow down this re-bellious, stubborn pride of mine, and consent ' Her voice became choked, and clasping her hands, she looked upward, as if seeking, in her agony, intelligence from a wisdom that was infinite.
-- 'Nothing but vast wisdom and unlimited power should dare to sweep off men in multitudes,' he added; 'for it is only the one that can know the necessity of the judgment; and what is there, short of the other, that can replace the crea-tures of the Lord?
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:
-- It is a passive feeling capable of being roused for any object, as the vine can grow on any tree; and the wisdom of the world recognises its strength when it urges a girl to marry the man who wants her with the assurance that love will follow.
-- Perhaps that is the wisdom of life, to tread in your father's steps, and look neither to the right nor to the left.
-- That is the wisdom of life."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER 23Mr Richard Swiveller wending homeward from the Wilderness (for such was the appropriate name of Quilp's choice retreat), after a sinuous and corkscrew fashion, with many checks and stumbles; after stopping suddenly and staring about him, then as suddenly running forward for a few paces, and as suddenly halting again and shaking his head; doing everything with a jerk and nothing by premeditation; Mr Richard Swiveller wending his way homeward after this fashion, which is considered by evil-minded men to be symbolical of intoxication, and is not held by such persons to denote that state of deep wisdom and reflection in which the actor knows himself to be, began to think that possibly he had misplaced his confidence and that the dwarf might not be precisely the sort of person to whom to entrust a secret of such delicacy and importance.
-- After pondering deeply and with a face of exceeding wisdom for some time, Mr Swiveller drank some more of the beer, and summoning a small boy who had been watching his proceedings, poured forth the few remaining drops as a libation on the gravel, and bade him carry the empty vessel to the bar with his compliments, and above all things to lead a sober and temperate life, and abstain from all intoxicating and exciting liquors.
-- With which parting injunction, slowly and portentously delivered, the doctor departed, leaving the whole house in admiration of that wisdom which tallied so closely with their own.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By the tone of his short but strong speech, he seemed to excuse himself, to insist that the honorable Senators with their power of penetration and judicial wisdom saw and understood better than he, but that he was speaking only because his duties demanded it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Beside the young minds drawn to it by salaries, it becomes allied with young forces, which make for its existence even when the strength and wisdom of the founder are fading.
-- At the corner he saw the wisdom of it.
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