cease是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 停止,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:
-- But stranger things have happened; and when we cease to care for each other as we do now, it will be the means of confirm-ing us in that sort of true disinterested friendship which I can already look forward to with pleasure.'
-- They should lose her; and, prob-ably, in great measure, her husband also. Frank Churchill would return among them no more; and Miss Fairfax, it was reasonable to suppose, would soon cease to belong to Highbury.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "He is," said Henery, implying that irony must cease at a certain point.
-- But limitation of the capacity is never recognized as a loss by the loser therefrom: in this attribute moral or 脙娄sthetic poverty contrasts plausibly with material, since those who suffer do not mind it, whilst those who mind it soon cease to suffer.
-- It was a picture full of misery, but for a while she contemplated it firmly, allowing herself, nevertheless, as girls will, to dwell upon the happy life she would have enjoyed had Troy been Boldwood, and the path of love the path of duty inflicting upon herself gratuitous tortures by imagining him the lover of another woman after forgetting her; for she had penetrated Troy's nature so far as to estimate his tendencies pretty accurately, but unfortunately loved him no less in thinking that he might soon cease to love her indeed, considerably more.
-- Bathsheba had reached a stage at which people cease to have any appreciative regard for public opinion.
-- "I, for one, shall never cease regretting that events so fell out as to deny you to me."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet, if you have a heart, lock it carefully away like a treasure; do not let any one suspect it, or you will be lost; you would cease to be the executioner, you would take the victim's place.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You come to us now to share a misery which nothing can alleviate; yet your presence will, I hope, revive our father, who seems sinking under his misfortune; and your persuasions will induce poor Elizabeth to cease her vain and tormenting self-accusations. Poor William!he was our darling and our pride!'
-- This may not be; cease to argue the point, for I cannot consent.'
-- But I am a blast-ed tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
-- And now my wanderings began which are to cease but with life.
-- Blasted as thou wert, my agony was still superior to thine, for the bitter sting of remorse will not cease to rankle in my wounds until death shall close them forever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Oh!I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt," said Estella, "and of course if it ceased to beat I should cease to be.
-- When that person discloses, my part in this business will cease and determine.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What the little fish had foretold soon came to pass; and the queen had a little girl, so very beautiful that the king could not cease look-ing on it for joy, and said he would hold a great feast and make merry, and show the child to all the land.
-- When the seed came up, there was one plant bigger than all the rest; and it kept getting larger and larger, and seemed as if it would never cease growing; so that it might have been called the prince of turnips for there never was such a one seen before, and never will again.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I gave due praises to every thing I saw, whereof his excellency took not the least notice till after supper; when, there being no third companion, he told me with a very melancholy air 'that he doubted he must throw down his houses in town and country, to rebuild them after the present mode; de-stroy all his plantations, and cast others into such a form 220 Gulliver's Travelsas modern usage required, and give the same directions to all his tenants, unless he would submit to incur the censure of pride, singularity, affectation, ignorance, caprice, and perhaps increase his majesty's displeasure; that the admira-tion I appeared to be under would cease or diminish, when he had informed me of some particulars which, probably, I never heard of at court, the people there being too much taken up in their own speculations, to have regard to what passed here below.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- LOSTThe robbery at the Bank had not languished before, and did not cease to occupy a front place in the attention of the principal of that establishment now.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His engagement with my uncle was by no means to cease with our arrival at Stapi; he was further to remain in his service during the whole time required for the completion of his scientific investigations, at the fixed salary of three rix-dollars a week, being exactly fourteen shillings and twopence, minus one farthing, English currency.
-- You know very well that it is on the surface of the earth that its action is most powerfully felt, while on the contrary, in the very centre of the earth bodies cease to have any weight at all. "
-- As soon as I start, our voices will cease to commingle.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He felt that his blighted affections were quite dead now, and though he should never cease to be a faithful mourner, there was no occasion to wear his weeds ostentatiously.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- (They cease dancing, and gather in clusters.
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