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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Arrived at the forest, Pencroft broke from the first tree two stout branches which he transformed into clubs, the ends of which Herbert rubbed smooth on a rock.
-- This bed of fine sand was as smooth as ice, not a grain out of place.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it!Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martin's Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain and weariness obliged, despite himself (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the child's step from the man's, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread of an expectant pleasure-seeker think of the hum and noise always being present to his sense, and of the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy churchyard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come.
-- He would sit, for hours together, with Nell's small hand in his, playing with the fingers and stopping sometimes to smooth her hair or kiss her brow; and, when he saw that tears were glistening in her eyes, would look, amazed, about him for the cause, and forget his wonder even while he looked.
-- But there was the sun shining and there were the birds singing, as the sun only shines and the birds only sing on holidays and half-holidays; there were the trees waving to all free boys to climb and nestle among their leafy branches; the hay, entreating them to come and scatter it to the pure air; the green corn, gently beckoning towards wood and stream; the smooth ground, rendered smoother still by blending lights and shadows, inviting to runs and leaps, and long walks God knows whither.
-- The bed had not been lain on, but was smooth and empty.
-- The procession filed off, two and two, with the books and parasols, and Miss Monflathers, calling the Baronet's daughter to walk with her and smooth her ruffled feelings, discarded the two teachers who by this time had exchanged their smiles for looks of sympathy and left them to bring up the rear, and hate each other a little more for being obliged to walk together.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I must go to see them," he thought, "and smooth it over."
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'If it's very long,' she said, as politely as she could, 'would you please tell me first which road 'Tweedledee smiled gently, and began again:'The sun was shining on the sea,Shining with all his might:He did his very best to makeThe billows smooth and bright And this was odd, because it wasThe middle of the night.
-- 'Smooth her hair lend her your nightcap and sing her a soothing lullaby.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.
-- There was a great, smooth swell upon the sea.
-- I found each wave, instead of the big, smooth glossy mountain it looks from shore or from a vessel's deck, was for all the world like any range of hills on dry land, full of peaks and smooth places and valleys.
-- "Well, now," thought I to myself, "it is plain I must lie where I am and not disturb the balance; but it is plain also that I can put the paddle over the side and from time to time, in smooth places, give her a shove or two towards land."
-- Silver, though he was almost killed already with fatigue, was set to an oar, like the rest of us, and we were soon skimming swiftly over a smooth sea.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thus, guided by this clever hand, the Nautilus passed through all the ice with a precision which quite charmed Conseil; icebergs or mountains, ice-fields or smooth plains, seeming to have no limits, drift-ice or floating ice-packs, plains broken up, called palchs when they are circular, and streams when they are made up of long strips.
-- I should say that, in the water, which is their element the spine of these creatures is flexible; with smooth and close skin and webbed feet they swim admirably.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It launched in a white arc through the air, there was a bursting of the water, and among the smooth ripples a swimmer was making out to space, in a centre of faintly heaving motion.
-- Gerald glanced at him, and saw him, his suave, golden coloured body with the black hair growing fine and freely, like tendrils, and his limbs like smooth plant-stems.
-- There were three ponds, in terraces descending the valley, large and smooth and beautiful, lying in the sun.
-- He had his life-work now, to extend over the earth a great and perfect system in which the will of man ran smooth and unthwarted, timeless, a Godhead in process.
-- She was thinking of the slender, immature, tender limbs of the girl, smooth and cold in green bronze.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.
-- Catherine reflected an instant, with knitted brows she found it needful to smooth the way for an intrusion.
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