them是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为pron. 他们/她们/它们(they的宾格形式),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《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The mysterious habits of Phileas Fogg were recalled; his solitary ways, his sudden departure; and it seemed clear that, in undertaking a tour round the world on the pretext of a wager, he had had no other end in view than to elude the detectives, and throw them off his track.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He did awe his Gang by bandaging stone-bruises, dissecting squirrels, and explaining the astounding and secret matters to be discovered at the back of the physiology, but he was not completely free from an ambition to command such glory among them as was enjoyed by the son of the Episcopalian minister, who could smoke an entire cigar without becoming sick.
-- On evenings when the Doc was away, Martin would acquire prestige among the trembling Gang by leading them into the unutterable darkness and scratching a sulfur match on the skeleton's jaw.
-- Chapter 2 The state of Winnemac is bounded by Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, and like them it is half Eastern, half Midwestern.
-- He had heard older medics mutter of its horrors: of corpses hanging by hooks, like rows of ghastly fruit, in an abominable tank of brine in the dark basement; of Henry the janitor, who was said to haul the cadavers out of the brine, to inject red lead into their veins, and to scold them as he stuffed them on the dumb-waiter.
-- He did not look at passing students, and when he bumped into them he grunted in confused apology.
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:
-- I thought of you and your dear ones and I contrived to kiss Plestcheiev and Dourov, who were next to me, and to bid them farewell.
-- What mat-ters is that people would remember it, and that would give them a clue.
-- He had counted them once when he had been lost in dreams.
-- Now, a month later, he had begun to look upon them differently, and, in spite of the monologues in which he jeered at his own impotence and indecision, he had involuntarily come to regard this 'hid-eous' dream as an exploit to be attempted, although he still 10 Crime and Punishmentdid not realise this himself.
-- At the other persons in the room, includ-ing the tavern- keeper, the clerk looked as though he were used to their company, and weary of it, showing a shade of condescending contempt for them as persons of station and culture inferior to his own, with whom it would be useless for him to converse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'We thought- Mr. Copperfield thought- it was quite a largerookery; but the nests were very old ones, and the birds havedeserted them a long while.'
-- There was atwitch of Miss Betsey's head, after each of these sentences, as if herown old wrongs were working within her, and she repressed anyplainer reference to them by strong constraint.
-- That, marching him constantly up and down by the collar(as if he had been taking too much laudanum), she, at those times,shook him, rumpled his hair, made light of his linen, stopped hisears as if she confounded them with her own, and otherwisetouzled and maltreated him.
-- However, we returned to those monsters, with fresh wakefulnesson my part, and we left their eggs in the sand for the sun to hatch;and we ran away from them, and baffled them by constantlyturning, which they were unable to do quickly, on account of theirunwieldy make; and we went into the water after them, as natives,and put sharp pieces of timber down their throats; and in short weran the whole crocodile gauntlet.
-- I recollect Peggotty and I peepingout at them from my little window; I recollect how closely theyseemed to be examining the sweetbriar between them, as theystrolled along; and how, from being in a perfectly angelic temper,Peggotty turned cross in a moment, and brushed my hair thewrong way, excessively hard.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Between them it was more the intimacy of sisters.
-- She had many acquaintance in the place, for her father was universally civ-il, but not one among them who could be accepted in lieu of Miss Taylor for even half a day.
-- I wanted them to put off the wed-ding.'
-- What was unwholesome to him he regarded as unfit for any body; and he had, therefore, earnestly tried to dissuade them from having any wedding-cake at all, and when that proved vain, as earnestly tried to prevent any body's eating it.
-- Mrs. Goddard's school was in high repute and very deservedly; for High-bury was reckoned a particularly healthy spot: she had an ample house and garden, gave the children plenty of whole-some food, let them run about a great deal in the summer, and in winter dressed their chilblains with her own hands.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The practice of divination by Bible and key, the regarding of valentines as things of serious import, the shearing-supper, and the harvest-home, have, too, nearly disappeared in the wake of the old houses; and with them have gone, it is said, much of that love of fuddling to which the village at one time was notoriously prone.
-- He was at the brightest period of masculine growth, for his intellect and his emotions were clearly separated: he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the stage wherein they become united again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and family.
-- Still, this was but conjecture, and the whole series of actions was so idly put forth as to make it rash to assert that intention had any part in them at all.
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