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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world?
-- I will put them into my pillow, and then I am sure I shall sleep soundly without rocking.
-- People are so kind; they seem really to think I do them a favour in letting them make me rich, and giving me good bargains.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Before he quitted Redriff, he left the custody of the fol-lowing papers in my hands, with the liberty to dispose of them as I should think fit.
-- I have carefully perused them three times.
-- By the advice of several worthy persons, to whom, with the author's permission, I communicated these papers, I now venture to send them into the world, hoping they may be, at least for some time, a better entertainment to our young noblemen, than the common scribbles of politics and party.
-- I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called 'A Voyage round the world.'
-- Likewise in the account of the academy of projectors, and several pas-sages of my discourse to my master Houyhnhnm, you have either omitted some material circumstances, or minced or changed them in such a manner, that I do hardly know my own work.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.
-- Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the cellarage before mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge.
-- His cold eyes would hardly have been eyes, but for the short ends of lashes which, by bringing them into immediate contrast with something paler than themselves, expressed their form.
-- Only a few feeble stragglers said Yes: among them Sissy Jupe.
-- 'And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now most persons in this category supply themselves with information, as peddlers do with goods, for the benefit of others, and lay up stores in order to diffuse them abroad for the benefit of society in general.
-- To prove the excellent Hardwigg's impatience, I solemnly declare that when the flowers in the drawing-room pots began to grow, he rose every morning at four o'clock to make them grow quicker by pulling the leaves!
-- I put them together by twos, by threes, fours, and fives--in vain.
-- I snatched up book and parchment, and was about to cast them into the fire, when the door opened and my uncle entered.
-- The fact was, that scarcely any one of them but expected some goods by the periodical vessel.
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 loved their respective young men, and their respective young men loved them with all the passion of mental at-traction.
-- It was obvious in them too that love had gone through them: that is, the physical experience.
-- When you don't have them they hate you be-cause you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason.
-- Sir Geoffrey, Clifford's father, was intensely ridiculous, chopping down his trees, and weeding men out of his colliery to shove them into the war; and himself being so safe and patriotic; but, also, spending more money on his country than he'd got.
-- Clifford left them alone, and she learnt to do the same: she just went by without looking at them, and they stared as if she were a walking wax figure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For the rest, he was large and tall in frame, had thin lips, where his thick moustache showed them at all, and a quantity of dry hair, of no definable colour, in its shaggy state, but shot with red.
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