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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And Emma had the advantage of hearing her own silly compliment repeated twice over before the good old lady could comprehend it.
-- The circumstance was told him at Hartfield; for the moment, he was silent; but Emma heard him almost immediately afterwards say to himself, over a newspaper he held in his hand, 'Hum!just the trifling, silly fellow I took him for.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A silly girl! silly girl!"
-- "If you do care so much for a silly trifle of that kind, then, I don't mind doing it," she uncertainly and doubtingly answered.
-- But I am a silly woman!What is it to me what he is?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "That silly nephew of hers, Charlie Hamilton, andHoney Wilkes.
-- For how can a silly piece like yourself tell agood man from a scoundrel?
-- Sometimes when Scarlett tiptoed at night to kiss her tall mother's cheek, she looked up at the mouth with its tooshort, too tender upper lip, a mouth too easily hurt by the world, and wondered if it had ever curved in silly girlishgiggling or whispered secrets through long nights to intimate girl friends.
-- "Why is it a girl has to be so silly to catch a husband?"
-- She wished that she could tell him how silly he looked.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "You silly boy," said Estella, quite composedly, "how can you talk such nonsense?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You silly creature!'
-- 'What nonsense,' thought the princess, 'this silly frog is talking!He can never even get out of the spring to 61visit me, though he may be able to get my ball for me, and therefore I will tell him he shall have what he asks.'
-- 'Silly goose,' said the old woman.
-- It was in vain that the poor maiden said that it was only a silly boast of her father, for that she could do no such thing as spin straw into gold: the chamber door was locked, and she was left alone.
-- 'What a goose you are to do such silly things!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I remember, before the dwarf left the queen, he followed us one day into those gardens, and my nurse having set me down, he and I being close together, near some dwarf apple trees, I must needs show my wit, by a silly allusion between him and the trees, which happens to hold in their language as it does in ours.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No little Gradgrind had ever learnt the silly jingle, Twinkle, twinkle, little star; how I wonder what you are!No little Gradgrind had ever known wonder on the subject, each little Gradgrind having at five years old dissected the Great Bear like a Professor Owen, and driven Charles's Wain like a locomotive engine-driver.
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:
-- Sometimes she wept bitterly, but even as she wept she was saying to herself: Silly fool, wetting hankies!As if that would get you anywhere!
-- 'Oh no, my Lady!That was only my silly cry.
-- But she only said: 'What silly hocus-pocus!As if his little conceited con-sciousness could know what was happening as slowly as all that!It only means HE'S a physical failure on the earth, so he wants to make the whole universe a physical failure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There, you little thing, I was only in fun,' dabbing her sister's forehead; 'but don't you be a silly puss, and don't you think flightily and eloquently about degenerate impossibilities.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I knew you'd hurt your feet with those silly shoes.
-- 'I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are silly enough to wear them,' And I think Jo was quite right.
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