bloody是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 流血的, 血腥的,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:
-- There I see him, high up, behind the bars of a lofty iron cage, bloody and dusty as last night, looking through.
-- False eyebrows and false moustaches were stuck upon them, and their hideous countenances were all bloody and sweaty, and all awry with howling, and all staring and glaring with beastly excitement and want of sleep.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He heard men shrieking in delirium; a dozen times he saw that face of terror--sunken bloody eyes, drawn face, open mouth-- which marks the Black Death; and once he beheld an exquisite girl child in coma on the edge of death, her tongue black and round her the scent of the tomb.
-- The flame lighted the whole valley; roused the terrified squawking birds, and turned the surf at Point Carib to bloody foam.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sometimes I see the butcher, bloody but confident;sometimes I see nothing, and sit gasping on my second's knee;sometimes I go in at the butcher madly, and cut my knuckles openagainst his face, without appearing to discompose him at all.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But not this!Never this!That thiscould happen to us all, this wrecking of old ways, this bloody slaughter and hate!Melanie, nothing is worth it States'Rights, nor slaves, nor cotton.
-- Linenand cotton bandages were too precious now to be thrown away when used, and every lady who nursed at the hospitalsbrought home baskets of bloody strips to be washed and ironed and returned for use on other sufferers.
-- There wereso many men jolting down this dark, dusty road whom she knew so well, so many men dying here before her eyes,mosquitoes and gnats swarming their bloody faces, men with whom she had danced and laughed, for whom she hadplayed music and sung songs, teased, comforted and loved a little.
-- Here and mere in the road and fields lay buckles and bits of harness leather, canteens flattened by hooves andcaisson wheels, buttons, blue caps, worn socks, bits of bloody rags, all the litter left by the marching army.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I never have been so surprised in my life, as I was when I let out the first blow, and saw him lying on his back, looking up at me with a bloody nose and his face exceedingly fore-shortened.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You shall suffer for it we will punish you by a bloody war.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, the Big-endian exiles have found so much credit in the emperor of Blefuscu's court, and so much private assistance and encouragement from their party here at home, that a bloody war has been car-ried on between the two empires for six-and-thirty moons, with various success; during which time we have lost forty capital ships, and a much a greater number of smaller ves-sels, together with thirty thousand of our best seamen and 53soldiers; and the damage received by the enemy is reckoned to be somewhat greater than ours.
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:
-- 'My God, it was bloody making.'
-- 'My God, Connie, all the bloody contriving!'
-- Bloody good poacher, if you ask me.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ahab has that that's bloody on his mind.
-- Nor is it so very unlikely, that far from distrusting his fitness for another whaling voyage, on account of such dark symptoms, the calculating people of that prudent isle were inclined to harbor the conceit, that for those very reasons he was all the better qualified and set on edge, for a pursuit so full of rage and wildness as the bloody hunt of whales.
-- He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.
-- "But, gentlemen, a fool saved the would-be murderer from the bloody deed he had planned.
-- Though by the repeated bloody chastisements they have received at the hands of European cruisers, the audacity of these corsairs has of late been somewhat repressed; yet, even at the present day, we occasionally hear of English and American vessels, which, in those waters, have been remorselessly boarded and pillaged.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But my invention now ran quite another way; for night and day I could think of nothing but how I might destroy some of the monsters in their cruel, bloody enter-tainment, and if possible save the victim they should bring hither to destroy.
-- Sometimes I thought if digging a hole under the place where they made their fire, and putting in five or six pounds of gunpowder, which, when they kindled their fire, would consequently take fire, and blow up all that was near it: but as, in the first place, I should be unwilling to waste so much powder upon them, my store being now within the quantity of one barrel, so neither could I be sure of its going off at any certain time, when it might surprise them; and, at best, that it would do little more than just blow the fire about their ears and fright them, but not sufficient to make them forsake the place: so I laid it aside; and then proposed that I would place myself in ambush in some convenient place, with my three guns all double-loaded, and in the middle of their bloody ceremony let fly at them, when I should be sure to kill or wound perhaps two or three at every shot; and then falling in upon them with my three pistols and my sword, I made no doubt but that, if there were twenty, I should kill them all.
-- I went so far with it in my imagination that I employed myself several days to find out proper places to put myself in ambuscade, as I said, to watch for them, and I went frequently to the place itself, which was now grown more familiar to me; but while my mind was thus filled with thoughts of revenge and a bloody putting twenty or thirty of them to the sword, as I may call it, the horror I had at the place, and at the signals of the barbarous wretches devouring one another, abetted my malice.
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