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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This muffled and bandaged head was so unlike what she had anticipated, that for a moment she was rigid.
-- But the visitor was not to be drawn so easily.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So that this narra-tive is without confirmation in its most essential particular.
-- I say lucky for us he did not reach us, and I might almost say luckily for himself; for we had only a small breaker of water and some soddened ship's biscuits with us, so sudden had been the alarm, so unprepared the ship for any disas-ter.
-- The two other men who had escaped so far with me were a man named Helmar, a passenger like myself, and a seaman whose name I don't know, a short sturdy man, with a stammer.
-- I remember our voic-es were dry and thin, so that we bent towards one another and spared our words.
-- At the same time my eye caught my hand, thin so that it looked like a dirty skin-purse full of loose bones, and all the business of the boat came back to me.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'For a wolf, no,' said Tabaqui, 'but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.
-- 'How beautiful are the noble children!How large are their eyes!And so young too!Indeed, indeed, I might have re-membered that the children of kings are men from the beginning.'
-- Now, Tabaqui knew as well as anyone else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces.
-- He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.'
-- And so this is a man's cub.
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:
-- Still there is so much obscu-rity in the Indian traditions, and so much confusion in the Indian names, as to render some explanation useful.
-- Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so ex-press it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America.
-- These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic.
-- Whatever may be the truth, as respects the root and the genius of the Indian tongues, it is quite certain they are now so distinct in their words as to possess most of the disadvantages of strange languages; hence much of the embarrassment that has aris-en in learning their histories, and most of the uncertainty which exists in their traditions.
-- But, beyond this, the enterprise and energy of a people who have done so much in other places have done little here.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
-- It was most in-geniously secured at vacant hours, by a *withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shut-ters; so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out, an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot.
-- All this he called 'doing his duty by their parents;' and he never inflicted a chastisement without fol-lowing it by the assurance, so consolatory to the smarting urchin, that 'he would remember it and thank him for it the longest day he had to live.'
-- He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest; and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnan-imously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours to-gether.
-- From his half-itinerant life, also, he was a kind of travel-ing gazette, carrying the whole budget of local gossip from house to house, so that his appearance was always greeted with satisfaction.
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:
-- The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.
-- But I do not propose to deal with Charles Strickland's work except in so far as it touches upon his character.
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