smooth是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 光滑的, 平稳的 v. 使光滑, 使平稳,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If each smooth tile had been a blank at first, with power to shape some picture on its surface from the disjointed fragments of his thoughts, there would have been a copy of old Marley's head on every one.
-- The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground; which last deposit had been ploughed up in deep furrows by the heavy wheels of carts and waggons; furrows that crossed and recrossed each other hundreds of times where the great streets branched off; and made intricate channels, hard to trace in the thick yellow mud and icy water.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As his eyes rested on a short, slight, pretty fig-ure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his 27own with an inquiring look, and a forehead with a singular capacity (remembering how young and smooth it was), of rifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of a bright fixed attention, though it included all the four ex-pressions-as his eyes rested on these things, a sudden vivid likeness passed before him, of a child whom he had held in his arms on the passage across that very Channel, one cold time, when the hail drifted heavily and the sea ran high.
-- Put some punch to it and smooth it again.'
-- The smooth manner of the spy, curiously in dissonance 431with his ostentatiously rough dress, and probably with his usual demeanour, received such a check from the inscruta-bility of Carton, who was a mystery to wiser and honester men than he, that it faltered here and failed him.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All the other houses in the street were so new and so neat, with large window panes and smooth walls, one could easily see that they would have nothing to do with the old house: they certainly thought, 'How long is that old decayed thing to stand here as a spectacle in the street?
-- A fine house was built there, with large windows, and smooth white walls; but before it, where the old house had in fact stood, was a little garden laid out, and a wild grape-vine ran up the wall of the neighboring house.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Levin rose to his feet, took off his overcoat, and scurrying over the rough ice round the hut, came out on the smooth ice and skated without effort, as it were, by simple exercise of will, increasing and slackening speed and turning his course.
-- And indeed, no sooner had he uttered these words, when all at once, like the sun going behind a cloud, her face lost all its friendliness, and Levin detected the familiar change in her expression that denoted the working of thought; a crease showed on her smooth brow.
-- This stiffness hurt Kitty, and she could not resist the desire to smooth over her mother's coldness.
-- But there was no chance of doing anything; and twisting the smooth paper knife in her little hands, she forced herself to read.
-- The cows had been let out into their paddock, and their smooth sides were already shining with their new, sleek, spring coats; they basked in the sunshine and lowed to go to the meadow.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He still seemed pale, in contrast to his black smooth hair, but he was a respectable runner, a fair basket- ball center, and a savage hockey-player.
-- Her every movement was swiftly smooth as the running of a cat.
-- His rimless eyeglasses, in the midst of a round smooth face, made him seem innocent.
-- She knew too many men who were witty and well-bred, ivory smooth and competent to help her spend the four or five million dollars with which she was burdened.
-- Not smooth enough to be a butler.
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:
-- And, besides, it was obviously not said of design, but slipped out in the heat of conversation, so that he tried afterwards to correct him-self and smooth it over, but all the same it did strike me as somewhat rude, and I said so afterwards to Dounia.
-- Afterwards he had added to the wood a thin smooth piece of iron, which he had also picked up at the same time in the street.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His hair was very smooth andwavy; but I was informed by the very first boy who came back thatit was a wig (a second-hand one he said), and that Mr. Sharp wentout every Saturday afternoon to get it curled.
-- Oh yes, bless us!whoso smooth and silky as Mr. Murdstone at first!The poor, benightedinnocent had never seen such a man.
-- I had no pleasure in thinking, any more, of the grave old broad-leaved aloe-trees which remained shut up in themselves a hundredyears together, and of the trim smooth grass-plot, and the stoneurns, and the Doctor's Walk, and the congenial sound of thecathedral bell hovering above them all.
-- But the mingled reality and mystery ofthe whole show, the influence upon me of the poetry, the lights, themusic, the company, the smooth stupendous changes of glitteringand brilliant scenery, were so dazzling, and opened up suchillimitable regions of delight, that when I came out into the rainystreet, at twelve o'clock at night, I felt as if I had come from theclouds, where I had been leading a romantic life for ages, to abawling, splashing, link-lighted, umbrella-struggling, hackney-coach-jostling, pattern-clinking, muddy, miserable world.
-- He had not a pliant face, he had rather a stiffneck, rather a tight smooth head with short hair clinging to it at thesides, a soft way of speaking, with a peculiar habit of whisperingthe letter S so distinctly, that he seemed to use it oftener than anyother man; but every peculiarity that he had he made respectable.
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