book是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 书, 书籍vt. 订(票, 座位, 房间等) , 预定,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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He tried to read a book about India, but tonight he could not read.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She shut the book and remained for a little time with her face shaded by her hand.
-- She put two fingers between the leaves, closed the book upon them, and held it up to her son in a threatening way.
-- In part relieved by the intensity of this threat, and in part (monstrous as the fact is) by a general impression that it was in some sort a religious proceeding, she handed back the book to the old man, and was silent.
-- Maggy was snoring already, and Little Dorrit was soon fast asleep with her head resting on that sealed book of Fate, untroubled by its mysterious blank leaves.
-- But for the notable resolution he had made, Clennam really might not have known what he had been reading; really might not have had his eyes upon the book for an hour past, though it lay open before him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A greencov-ered book appeared, with the same picture inside, and a few words written by their mother, which made their one present very precious in their eyes.
-- You can do as you please, but I shall keep my book on the table here and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good and help me through the day.'
-- Then she opened her new book and began to read.
-- I actually made myself sleepy, and before she began to nod, I gave such a gape that she asked me what I meant by opening my mouth wide enough to take the whole book in at once.
-- 'Scold as much as you like, you'll never see your silly old book again,' cried Amy, getting excited in her turn.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian)It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane.
-- A hundred black faces turned round in their rows to peer; and beyond, a black Angel of Doom was beating a book in a pulpit.
-- Yet what depths of the soul does Jonah's deep sealine sound!what a pregnant lesson to us is this prophet!What a noble thing is that canticle in the fish's belly!How billow-like and boisterously grand!We feel the floods surging over us; we sound with him to the kelpy bottom of the waters; sea-weed and all the slime of the sea is about us!But what is this lesson that the book of Jonah teaches?
-- There now came a lull in his look, as he silently turned over the leaves of the Book once more; and, at last, standing motionless, with closed eyes, for the moment, seemed communing with God and himself.
-- But being now interrupted, he put up the image; and pretty soon, going to the table, took up a large book there, and placing it on his lap began counting the pages with deliberate regularity; at every fiftieth page as I fancied stopping a moment, looking vacantly around him, and giving utterance to a long-drawn gurgling whistle of astonishment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had taken up a book from the stall, and there he stood, reading away, as hard as if he were in his elbow-chair, in his own study.
-- It is very possible that he fancied himself there, indeed; for it was plain, from his abstraction, that he saw not the book-stall, nor the street, nor the boys, nor, in short, anything but the book itself: which he was reading straight through: turning over the leaf when he got to the bottom of a page, beginning at the top line of the next one, and going regularly on, with the greatest interest and eagerness.
-- with all his might, made off after him, book in hand.
-- He closed his book hastily; and was at once ushered into the imposing presence of the renowned Mr. Fang.
-- Now, if you stand there, refusing to give evidence, I'll punish you for disrespect to the bench; I will, by--' By what, or by whom, nobody knows, for the clerk and jailor coughed very loud, just at the right moment; and the former dropped a heavy book upon the floor, thus preventing the word from being heard--accidently, of course.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With a book he was regardless of time; and on the pres-ent occasion he had a good deal of curiosity as to the events of an evening which had raised such splendid expectations.
-- Mr. Collins readily assented, and a book was produced; but, on beholding it (for everything an-nounced it to be from a circulating library), he started back, and begging pardon, protested that he never read novels.
-- Mr. Bennet raised his eyes from his book as she entered, and fixed them on her face with a calm unconcern which was not in the least altered by her communication.
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