sideways是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. /a. 向旁边(的) , 侧身, 横着(的) , 斜着(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:
-- He turned himself sideways to the carriage, and leaned back, with his face thrown up to the sky, and his head hang-ing down; then recovered himself, fumbled with his cap, and made a bow.
-- But, when his nephew, leaning an elbow on the table, covered his eyes thoughtfully and dejectedly with his hand, the fine mask looked at him sideways with a stronger con-centration of keenness, closeness, and dislike, than was 173comportable with its wearer's assumption of indifference.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her eye, full of fire, glanced sideways at Vronsky.
-- Twenty years before, when Dolly was a child, the lodge had been roomy and comfortable, though, like all lodges, it stood sideways to the entrance avenue, and faced the south.
-- At the table, sitting sideways in a low chair, was Vronsky, his face hidden in his hands, weeping.
-- The priest lighted two candles, wreathed with flowers, and holding them sideways so that the wax dropped slowly from them he turned, facing the bridal pair.
-- The head lay sideways on the pillow.
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:
-- She was standing sideways to the table.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He makesdreadful mouths as he rules the ciphering-book; and now hethrows his eye sideways down our lane, and we all droop over ourbooks and tremble.
-- These observations, andindeed the greater part of the observations made that evening,were interrupted by Mrs. Micawber's discovering that MasterMicawber was sitting on his boots, or holding his head on withboth arms as if he felt it loose, or accidentally kicking Traddlesunder the table, or shuffling his feet over one another, orproducing them at distances from himself apparently outrageous tonature, or lying sideways with his hair among the wine-glasses, ordeveloping his restlessness of limb in some other formincompatible with the general interests of society; and by MasterMicawber's receiving those discoveries in a resentful spirit.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The low though extensive hall, supported by beams and pillars, and latterly dignified by the name of Corn Exchange, was thronged with hot men who talked among each other in twos and threes, the speaker of the minute looking sideways into his auditor's face and concentrating his argument by a contraction of one eyelid during delivery.
-- Few men could have resisted the arch yet dignified entreaty of the beautiful face, thrown a little back and sideways in the well known attitude that expresses more than the words it accompanies, and which seems to have been designed for these special occasions.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She looked at Scarlett sideways and scuffed her feetand twisted her thin body.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He swallowed, or rather snapped up, every mouthful, too soon and too fast; and he looked sideways here and there while he ate, as if he thought there was danger in every direction of somebody's coming to take the pie away.
-- There was an air of toleration or depreciation about his utterance of these words that rather depressed me; and I was still looking sideways at his block of a face in search of any encouraging note to the text, when he said here we were at Barnard's Inn.
-- Some of his teeth had failed him since I saw him eat on the marshes, and as he turned his food in his mouth, and turned his head sideways to bring his strongest fangs to bear upon it, he looked terribly like a hungry old dog.
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:
-- The chair charged in a sick lurch sideways at the ditch.
-- He put his hand on her head, and the bitch leaned her head sideways against him.
-- They usually tell me, in a sideways fashion, that I'm the monkey.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was waiting to be fed, looking sideways through the bars that he might see the further down the stairs, with much of the expression of a wild beast in similar expectation.
-- He lighted the second at the ashes of the first, and smoked on, looking sideways at his companion, who, preoccupied with his own case, hardly looked at him.
-- Jeremiah come a dancing at me sideways, after I had let you out (he always comes a dancing at me sideways when he's going to hurt me), and he said to me, "Now, Affery," he said, "I am a coming behind you, my woman, and a going to run you up."
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Shaking off the sleet from my ice-glazed hat and jacket, I seated myself near the door, and turning sideways was surprised to see Queequeg near me.
-- Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
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