silly是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 傻的, 糊涂的, 愚蠢的,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'A small matter,' said the Ghost, 'to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Ah, how silly I am today!"
-- But Konstantin Levin found it dull sitting and listening to him, especially when he knew that while he was away they would be carting dung onto the fields not ploughed ready for it, and heaping it all up anyhow; and would not screw the shares in the ploughs, but would let them come off and then say that the new ploughs were a silly invention, and there was nothing like the old Andreevna plough, and so on.
-- Suppose I am taught," he went on musing, "to shoot; I press the trigger," he said to himself, closing his eyes, "and it turns out I have killed him," Alexey Alexandrovitch said to himself, and he shook his head as though to dispel such silly ideas.
-- I've done silly things, of course, like everyone else, but money's the last consideration; I don't regret it.
-- "How silly men are, though, in this position," he said to Tchirikov, when Levin, after looking absently at him, had moved back to his bride.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Their words were silly and inconsequential, heard one by one, yet taken together they were as wise and important as the tides or the sounding wind.
-- "No, I'm sure, but-- Oh, Martykins, you won't be silly and let these nurses just amuse themselves with you?
-- Well anyway, thank Heaven, you won't have to keep up this silly gassing.
-- They talked, tremendously, and he listened with fatuous enthusiasm to opinions which, had Leora produced them, he would have greeted with "That's a damn' silly remark!"
-- I'd hate it if I thought you thought I was just a silly to call you up.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The assistant superintendent, still shaken by Raskol-nikov's disrespect, still fuming and obviously anxious to keep up his wounded dignity, pounced on the unfortunate smart lady, who had been gazing at him ever since he came in with an exceedingly silly smile.
-- 'Does he really want to distract my attention with his silly babble?'
-- 'What is it to do with me if silly ideas did occur to you?'
-- 'I was silly to come away from there.
-- 'Ach, what silly stuff I am talking, eh?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If people are so silly as to indulge the sentiment,is it my fault?
-- Why, what's put that in your silly little head?'
-- 'Well,' returned my mother, half laughing, 'and if she is so silly asto say so, can I be blamed for it?'
-- How merry little Em'ly made herself about it!With what a demureassumption of being immensely older and wiser than I, the fairylittle woman said I was 'a silly boy'; and then laughed socharmingly that I forgot the pain of being called by thatdisparaging name, in the pleasure of looking at her.
-- My aunt cried outright asshe embraced me; and said, pretending to laugh, that if my poormother had been alive, that silly little creature would have shedtears, she had no doubt.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'But, my dear, pray do not make any more matches; they are silly things, and break up one's family circle grievously.'
-- Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.
-- This does not apply, however, to Miss Bates; she is only too good natured and too silly to suit me; but, in general, she is very much to the taste of every body, though single and though poor.
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