so是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 那么; 非常; 也; 不错conj. 因此; 以便,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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The game of prisoner's base, which not so long ago seemed to enjoy a perennial vitality in front of the worn-out stocks, may, so far as I can say, be entirely unknown to the rising generation of schoolboys there.
-- He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and a coat like Dr. Johnson's; his lower extremities being encased in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp their maker being a conscientious man who endeavoured to compensate for any weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidity.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The only audience who could appreciate the results of close observation, the careful reproduction of minute detail and local color, are dwellers between the heights of Montrouge and Montmartre, in a vale of crumbling stucco watered by streams of black mud, a vale of sorrows which are real and joys too often hollow; but this audience is so accustomed to terrible sensations, that only some unimaginable and well-neigh impossible woe could produce any lasting impression there.
-- Now and again there are tragedies so awful and so grand by reason of the complication of virtues and vices that bring them about, that egotism and selfishness are forced to pause and are moved to pity; but the impression that they receive is like a luscious fruit, soon consumed.
-- It is still standing in the lower end of the Rue Nueve- Sainte-Genevieve, just where the road slopes so sharply down to the Rue de l'Arbalete, that wheeled traffic seldom passes that way, because it is so stony and steep.
-- The front of the lodging-house is at right angles to the road, and looks out upon a little garden, so that you see the side of the house in section, as it were, from the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve.
-- On the opposite wall, at the further end of the graveled walk, a green marble arch was painted once upon a time by a local artist, and in this semblance of a shrine a statue representing Cupid is installed; a Parisian Cupid, so blistered and disfigured that he looks like a candidate for one of the adjacent hospitals, and might suggest an allegory to lovers of symbolism.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.
-- These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthu-siasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
-- I must own I felt a little proud when my captain offered me the second dignity in the vessel and entreated me to remain with the greatest earnestness, so valuable did he consider my services.
-- A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his ser-vices.
-- The winter has been dreadfully severe, but the spring promises well, and it is considered as a remarkably early season, so that perhaps I may sail sooner than I expected.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Abovethem, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin that skin soprized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.
-- I've never gotten so tired of any one wordin my life as 'war,' unless it's 'secession.'
-- Pa talks war morning, noon and night, and all the gentlemen who come tosee him shout about Fort Sumter and States' Rights and Abe Lincoln till I get so bored I could scream!And that's allthe boys talk about, too, that and their old Troop.
-- So we went to bed, and this morning wegot away before she could catch us.
-- So still was her face as she staredat Stuart that he, never analytic, took it for granted that she was merely surprised and very interested.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the church came to itself,--for he was so sudden and strong that he made it go head over heels before me, and I saw the steeple under my feet,--when the church came to itself, I say, I was seated on a high tombstone, trembling while he ate the bread ravenously.
-- After darkly looking at his leg and me several times, he came closer to my tombstone, took me by both arms, and tilted me back as far as he could hold me; so that his eyes looked most powerfully down into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into his.
-- After each question he tilted me over a little more, so as to give me a greater sense of helplessness and danger.
-- I was dreadfully frightened, and so giddy that I clung to him with both hands, and said, "If you would kindly please to let me keep upright, sir, perhaps I shouldn't be sick, and perhaps I could attend more."
-- He gave me a most tremendous dip and roll, so that the church jumped over its own weathercock.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then the gardener's eldest son set out and thought to find the golden bird very easily; and when he had gone but a lit-tle way, he came to a wood, and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting; so he took his bow and made ready to shoot at it.
-- So he shot his arrow at the fox; but he missed it, and it set up its tail above its back and ran into the wood.
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