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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But being one day at Hull, where I went casually, and without any purpose of making an elopement at that time; but, I say, being there, and one of my companions being about to sail to London in his father's ship, and prompting me to go with them with the common allurement of seafaring men, that it should cost me nothing for my passage, I consulted neither father nor mother any more, nor so much as sent them word of it; but leaving them to hear of it as they might, without asking God's blessing or my father's, without any consideration of circumstances or consequences, and in an ill hour, God knows, on the 1st of September 1651, I went on board a ship bound for Lon-don.
-- I found, indeed, some intervals of reflection; and the serious thoughts did, as it were, endea-vour to return again sometimes; but I shook them off, and roused myself from them as it were from a distemper, and applying myself to drinking and company, soon mastered the return of those fits - for so I called them; and I had in five or six days got as complete a victory over conscience as any young fellow that resolved not to be troubled with it could desire.
-- The light ships fared the best, as not so much labouring in the sea; but two or three of them drove, and came close by us, running away with only their spritsail out before the wind.
-- Towards evening the mate and boatswain begged the master of our ship to let them cut away the fore-mast, which he was very unwilling to do; but the boatswain protesting to him that if he did not the ship would founder, he consented; and when they had cut away the fore-mast, the main-mast stood so loose, and shook the ship so much, they were obliged to cut that away also, and make a clear deck.
-- But if I can express at this dis-tance the thoughts I had about me at that time, I was in tenfold more horror of mind upon account of my former convictions, and the having returned from them to the res-olutions I had wickedly taken at first, than I was at death itself; and these, added to the terror of the storm, put me into such a condition that I can by no words describe it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His attachment to them all increased.
-- To him therefore the succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, independent of what might arise to them from their father's inheriting that property, could be but small.
-- He meant not to be unkind, however, and, as a mark of his affection for the three girls, he left them a thousand pounds a-piece.
-- Mr. John Dashwood had not the strong feelings of the rest of the family; but he was affected by a recommendation of such a nature at such a time, and he promised to do every thing in his power to make them comfortable.
-- The prospect of four thousand a-year, in addition to his present income, besides the remaining half of his own mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity. "Yes, he would give them three thousand pounds: it would be liberal and handsome!It would be enough to make them completely easy.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Neither of them knew exactly what.
-- She could only think of people connected with them as counting money, dressing magnificently, and riding in carriages.
-- She could see them moving about now and then upon the upper floors.
-- Many of them had their sleeves rolled up, revealing bare arms, and in some cases, owing to the heat, their dresses were open at the neck.
-- Her thoughts now were of a more liberal character, and she punctuated them with speculations as to the whereabouts of Drouet.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up.
-- He leaned his back up against a tree, and stretched his legs out till one of them most touched one of mine.
-- We went to a clump of bushes, and Tom made everybody swear to keep the secret, and then showed them a hole in the hill, right in the thickest part of the bushes.
-- It swore every boy to stick to the band, and never tell any of the secrets; and if anybody done anything to any boy in the band, whichev-er boy was ordered to kill that person and his family must do it, and he mustn't eat and he mustn't sleep till he had killed them and hacked a cross in their breasts, which was the sign of the band.
-- I was most ready to cry; but all at once I thought of a way, and so I offered them Miss Watson they could kill her.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The richest of them begged for his living."
-- And my hunger grew, and I went out, and the old man with a nightcap looked out of the window and threw water on me, and I came home and put my feet on the stove to dry them because I was still hungry, and I fell asleep and now my feet are gone but my hunger isn't!Oh!--Oh!--Oh!"
-- Geppetto, who had understood nothing of all that jumbled talk, except that the Marionette was hungry, felt sorry for him, and pulling three pears out of his pocket, offered them to him, saying: "These three pears were for my breakfast, but I give them to you gladly.
-- Eat them and stop weeping."
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