capture是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 捕获, 俘虏; 夺得, 攻占,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Indian had not made his capture for the mere pleasure and glory of such a novel chase.
-- Nothing could be more agreeable than such a recital to Lady Helena and Mary Grant; and accordingly Lord Glenarvan hastened to satisfy their curiosity—going over incident by incident, the entire march from one ocean to another, the pass of the Andes, the earthquake, the disappearance of Robert, his capture by the condor, Thalcave's providential shot, the episode of the red wolves, the devotion of the young lad, Sergeant Manuel, the inundations, the caimans, the waterspout, the night on the Atlantic shore—all these details, amusing or terrible, excited by turns laughter and horror in the listeners.
-- It was a police notice, and announcing the escape of the convicts from Perth, and offering a reward for the capture of Ben Joyce of pounds 100 sterling.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "No attempts to hamper me, or capture me!Or " Kemp's face changed a little.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In his cups, though he severely retained his moral and elegant vocabulary, Clif chronicled the jest of selling oil-wells unprovided with oil and of escaping before the law closed in; the cleverness of joining churches for the purpose of selling stock to the members; and the edifying experience of assisting Dr. Benoni Carr to capture a rich and senile widow for his sanitarium by promising to provide medical consultation from the spirit-world.
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:
-- You see yourself that I have not come to chase and capture you like a hare.
-- In public convey-ances and shops, wherever she could capture a listener, she would begin the discourse about her son, his article, how he had helped the student, how he had been burnt at the fire, and so on!Dounia did not know how to restrain her.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- GABRIEL'S RESOLVE THE VISIT THE MISTAKEThe only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a superiority which recognizes itself may sometimes please by suggesting possibilities of capture to the subordinated man.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He began to understand, though somewhat tardily, that he must not expect to find many women in Paris who were not already appropriated, and that the capture of one of these queens would be likely to cost something more than bloodshed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I am not afraid of danger or capture or wounds or even death, if death must come, but I do fear that once this waris over, we will never get back to the old times.
-- Chancellorsville might be a more important victory but the capture ofStreight's raiders made the Yankees positively ridiculous.
-- Their capture would paralyze the North and more than cancel off the defeat on theMississippi.
-- Suppose the Yankees should capture thetrain on which Wade and Prissy were riding Scarlett and Melanie turned pale at the thought, for everyone knew thatYankee atrocities on helpless children were even more dreadful than on women.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This unexpected capture enabled us to renew our stock of provisions in a very satisfactory way.
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:
-- They wanted, both of them, to make a real display...a man's own very display of himself that should capture for a time the vast populace.
-- But under Mrs Bolton's influence, Clifford was tempt-ed to enter this other fight, to capture the bitch-goddess by brute means of industrial production.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'When you first came upon me, sir, in the Lodge, this day, more as if a Upas tree had been made a capture of than a private defendant, such mingled streams of feelings broke loose again within me, that everything was for the first few minutes swept away before them, and I was going round and round in a vortex.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'No, nor felt such thorns,' returned Laurie, with his thumb in his mouth, after a vain attempt to capture a soli-tary scarlet flower that grew just beyond his reach.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When not more profitably employed, the sperm whale hunters sometimes capture the Hyena whale, to keep up the supply of cheap oil for domestic employment as some frugal housekeepers, in the absence of company, and quite alone by themselves, burn unsavory tallow instead of odorous wax.
-- New Zealand Tom and Don Miguel, after at various times creating great havoc among the boats of different vessels, were finally gone in quest of, systematically hunted out, chased and killed by valiant whaling captains, who heaved up their anchors with that express object as much in view, as in setting out through the Narragansett Woods, Captain Butler of old had it in his mind to capture that notorious murderous savage Annawon, the headmost warrior of the Indian King Philip.
-- Though, consumed with the hot fire of his purpose, Ahab in all his thoughts and actions ever had in view the ultimate capture of Moby Dick; though he seemed ready to sacrifice all mortal interests to that one passion; nevertheless it may have been that he was by nature and long habituation far too wedded to a fiery whaleman's ways, altogether to abandon the collateral prosecution of the voyage.
-- was the cry from captain, mates, and harpooneers, who, undeterred by fearful rumours, were all anxious to capture so famous and precious a fish; while the dogged crew eyed askance, and with curses, the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living opal in the blue morning sea.
-- Thus, the foreground is all raging commotion; but behind, in admirable artistic contrast, is the glassy level of a sea becalmed, the drooping unstarched sails of the powerless ship, and the inert mass of a dead whale, a conquered fortress, with the flag of capture lazily hanging from the whale-pole inserted into his spout-hole.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After swallowing two of three glasses of spirits, Mr. Sikes condescended to take some notice of the young gentlemen; which gracious act led to a conversation, in which the cause and manner of Oliver's capture were circumstantially detailed, with such alterations and improvements on the truth, as to the Dodger appeared most advisable under the circumstances.
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