bear是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 熊; 粗鲁的人; v. 携带; 有, 怀有; 承受, 忍受; 生育,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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt.
-- But the sea rebels; he will not bear the wicked burden.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.
-- As Oliver accompanied his master in most of his adult expeditions too, in order that he might acquire that equanimity of demeanour and full command of nerve which was essential to a finished undertaker, he had many opportunities of observing the beautiful resignation and fortitude with which some strong-minded people bear their trials and losses.
-- Away they fly, splashing through the mud, and rattling along the pavements: up go the windows, out run the people, onward bear the mob, a whole audience desert Punch in the very thickest of the plot, and, joining the rushing throng, swell the shout, and lend fresh vigour to the cry, 'Stop thief!Stop thief!'
-- Oliver knew not the cause of this sudden exclamation; for, not being strong enough to bear the start it gave him, he fainted away.
-- It is due to the young lady to say that she did not positively affirm that she would not, but that she merely expressed an emphatic and earnest desire to be 'blessed' if she would; a polite and delicate evasion of the request, which shows the young lady to have been possessed of that natural good breeding which cannot bear to inflict upon a fellow-creature, the pain of a direct and pointed refusal.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Oh!my dear,' cried his wife, 'I cannot bear to hear that mentioned.
-- Mrs. Bennet treasured up the hint, and trusted that she might soon have two daughters married; and the man whom she could not bear to speak of the day before was now high in her good graces.
-- I have been a disappointed man, and my spirits will not bear solitude.
-- He had not a temper to bear the sort of competition in which we stood the sort of preference which was often given me.'
-- I do not know the particulars, but I know very well that Mr. Darcy is not in the least to blame, that he cannot bear to hear George Wickham mentioned, and that though my brother thought that he could not well avoid including him in his invitation to the officers, he was excessively glad to find that he had taken himself out of the way.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- About three in the afternoon he came up with us, and bringing to, by mistake, just athwart our quarter, instead of athwart our stern, as he intended, we brought eight of our guns to bear on that side, and poured in a broadside upon him, which made him sheer off again, after returning our fire, and pouring in also his small shot from near two hundred men which he had on board.
-- When this was done I went down the ship's side, and pulling them to me, I tied four of them together at both ends as well as I could, in the form of a raft, and laying two or three short pieces of plank upon them crossways, I found I could walk upon it very well, but that it was not able to bear any great weight, the pieces be-ing too light.
-- My raft was now strong enough to bear any reasonable weight.
-- He was all over as bright as a flame, so that I could but just bear to look towards him; his countenance was most inexpressibly dreadful, im-possible for words to describe.
-- Then I took some and steeped it an hour or two in some rum, and resolved to take a dose of it when I lay down; and lastly., I burnt some upon a pan of coals, and held my nose close over the smoke of it as long as I could bear it, as well for the heat as almost for suffocation.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The high downs which invited them from almost every window of the cottage to seek the exquisite enjoyment of air on their summits, were a happy alternative when the dirt of the valleys beneath shut up their superior beauties; and towards one of these hills did Marianne and Margaret one memorable morning direct their steps, attracted by the partial sunshine of a showery sky, and unable longer to bear the confinement which the settled rain of the two preceding days had occasioned.
-- She was convinced that Margaret had fixed on a person whose name she could not bear with composure to become a standing joke with Mrs. Jennings.
-- " Elinor then heard Willoughby say, in a low voice to Marianne, "There are some people who cannot bear a party of pleasure.
-- "He cannot bear writing, you know," she continued "he says it is quite shocking."
-- "I have a notion," said Lucy, "you think the little Middletons rather too much indulged; perhaps they may be the outside of enough; but it is so natural in Lady Middleton; and for my part, I love to see children full of life and spirits; I cannot bear them if they are tame and quiet."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Very well," said Carrie, who was so disturbed that she could not bring a proper attitude to bear in the matter.
-- It was only a mental justification he was seeking from himself-- something that would enable him to bear his state as a righteous man.
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