absolutely是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 完全地; 绝对地,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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This accident absolutely determined Glumdalclitch nev-er to trust me abroad for the future out of her sight.
-- He argued, 'that the very laws of nature absolutely required we should have been made, in the beginning of a size more large and robust; not so liable to destruction from every lit-tle accident, of a tile falling from a house, or a stone cast from the hand of a boy, or being drowned in a little brook.'
-- I desired the captain would please to accept this ring in return for his civilities; which he absolutely re-fused.
-- Again: because it is a general complaint, that the favou-rites of princes are troubled with short and weak memories; the same doctor proposed, 'that whoever attended a first minister, after having told his business, with the utmost brevity and in the plainest words, should, at his departure, give the said minister a tweak by the nose, or a kick in the belly, or tread on his corns, or lug him thrice by both ears, or run a pin into his breech; or pinch his arm black and blue, to prevent forgetfulness; and at every levee day, repeat the same operation, till the business were done, or absolutely refused.'
-- His majesty having often pressed me to accept some employment in his court, and finding me absolutely deter-272 Gulliver's Travelsmined to return to my native country, was pleased to give me his license to depart; and honoured me with a letter of recommendation, under his own hand, to the Emperor of Japan.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Is she absolutely unapproachable?
-- He had established a confidence with her, that absolutely turned upon her indifference towards her husband, and the absence, now and at all times, of any congeniality between them.
-- As Coketown cast ashes not only on its own head but on the neighbourhood's too after the manner of those pious persons who do penance for their own sins by putting other people into sackcloth it was customary for those who now and then thirsted for a draught of pure air, which is not absolutely the most wicked among the vanities of life, to get a few miles away by the railroad, and then begin their walk, or their lounge in the fields.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a reason, and it may be regarded as a good one, why my uncle objected to display his learning more than was absolutely necessary: he stammered; and when intent upon explaining the phenomena of the heavens, was apt to find himself at fault, and allude in such a vague way to sun, moon, and stars that few were able to comprehend his meaning.
-- Iceland, being absolutely without sedimentary soil, is composed exclusively of volcanic tufa; that is to say, of an agglomeration of stones and of rocks of a porous texture.
-- The disposition of these volcanic strata absolutely confirms the theories of Sir Humphry Davy.
-- It was absolutely necessary to trust to chance and good fortune!
-- The tunnel, moreover, instead of going down into the bowels of the earth, became absolutely horizontal.
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:
-- Yet he was absolutely dependent on her, he needed her every moment.
-- She knew that he didn't mind whether she were demi-vierge or demi-monde, so long as he didn't absolutely know, and wasn't made to see.
-- He was absolutely Bond Street!But at right of him something in Clifford's county soul recoiled.
-- It was part of his very being that he must break off any connexion, and be loose, isolated, absolutely lone dog again.
-- But you would absolutely starve me.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mews Street, Grosvenor Square, was not absolutely Grosvenor Square itself, but it was very near it.
-- But the effect of this mysterious communication upon Clennam was absolutely to frighten him.
-- and, in short, that people of condition had absolutely taken pains to bring him into fashion.
-- Against these obstacles, the lame foreigner with the stick had to make head as well as he could; not absolutely single-handed, because Mr Arthur Clennam had recommended him to the Plornishes (he lived at the top of the same house), but still at heavy odds.
-- Strait was the gate and narrow was the way; far straiter and narrower than the broad high road paved with vain professions and vain repetitions, motes from other men's eyes and liberal delivery of others to the judgment all cheap materials costing absolutely nothing.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues every stately or lovely emblazoning the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him.
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