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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- An avalanche sweeps some of them away; a condor carries off a lad.
-- "That's true enough," replied John Mangles, "and yet it would have been better to have fished them up in the open sea.
-- Lord Glenarvan examined them attentively for a few minutes, turning them over on all sides, holding them up to the light, and trying to decipher the least scrap of writing, while the others looked on with anxious eyes.
-- BRINGT IHNEN means BRING THEM; and, if you recollect, in the English paper we had SSISTANCE, so by putting the parts together, it reads thus, I think: ‘BRING THEM ASSISTANCE.'"
-- What we have to do now is to put together all the words we have found, and translate them into one language, and try to ascertain their most probable and logical sense."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Where-at Hugo ran from the house, crying to his grooms that they should saddle his mare and unkennel the pack, and giving the hounds a kerchief of the maid's, he swung them to the line, and so off full cry in the moonlight over the moor.
-- The most of them would by no means advance, but three of them, the bold-est, or it may be the most drunken, rode forward down the goyal.
-- Hol-mes leaned forward in his excitement and his eyes had the hard, dry glitter which shot from them when he was keenly interested.
-- 'The marks were some twenty yards from the body and no one gave them a thought.
-- I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All of them seemed weary, and most of them had sleepy eyes and a shivering expression, while their com- plexions generally appeared to have taken on the colour of the fog outside.
-- If they had but known why, at this par- ticular moment, they were both remarkable persons, they would undoubtedly have wondered at the strange chance which had set them down opposite to one another in a third- class carriage of the Warsaw Railway Company.
-- One of them was a young fellow of about twenty-seven, not tall, with black curling hair, and small, grey, fiery eyes.
-- 'Your bundle has some importance, however,' continued the clerk, when they had laughed their fill (it was observable that the subject of their mirth joined in the laughter when he saw them laughing); 'for though I dare say it is not stuffed full of friedrichs d'or and louis d'or judge from your cos-tume and gaiters still if you can add to your possessions such a valuable property as a relation like Mrs. General Ep-anchin, then your bundle becomes a significant object at once.
-- 'Sell them,' said he, 'and then take seven thousand five hundred roubles to the office, give them to the cashier, and bring me back the rest of the ten thousand, without looking in anywhere on the way; look sharp, I shall be waiting for you.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And which of the gods was it that set them on to quar-rel?
-- For nine whole days he shot his arrows among the people, but upon the tenth day Achilles called them in assembly moved thereto by Juno, who saw the Achaeans in their death-throes and had compassion upon them.
-- With all sincerity and goodwill he addressed them thus: 'Achilles, loved of heaven, you bid me tell you about the anger of King Apollo, I will therefore do so; but consider first and swear that you will stand by me heartily in word and deed, for I know that I shall offend one who rules the Argives with might, to whom all the Achaeans are in sub-jection.
-- They have not raid-ed my cattle nor my horses, nor cut down my harvests on the rich plains of Phthia; for between me and them there is a great space, both mountain and sounding sea.
-- While he was thus in two minds, and was drawing his mighty sword from its scab-bard, Minerva came down from heaven (for Juno had sent her in the love she bore to them both), and seized the son of Peleus by his yellow hair, visible to him alone, for of the others no man could see her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As soon as the bacon was well under way, and Millie, her lymphatic aid, had been brisked up a bit by a few deftly chosen expressions of contempt, she carried the cloth, plates, and glasses into the parlour and began to lay them with the utmost 脙漏clat.
-- she said, "and give them a good dry in the kitchen?"
-- "I prefer to keep them on," he said with emphasis, and she noticed that he wore big blue spectacles with sidelights, and had a bush side- whisker over his coat-collar that completely hid his cheeks and face.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "If you want me to eat them, please peel them for me."
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