childish是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 孩子的; 幼稚的,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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and flounder-ing desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reason-36 Frankensteining, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.
-- Time had altered her since I last beheld her; it had endowed her with loveliness surpassing the beauty of her childish years.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The high-pitched, childish voice answered "Yas'm," and there were sounds of footsteps going out the back way towardthe smokehouse where Ellen would ration out the food to the home-coming hands.
-- Scarlett recalled withcontempt Melanie's thin childish figure, her serious heart-shaped face that was plain almost to homeliness.
-- He loved Scarlett, but itmade him uncomfortable to have her forcing her childish problems on him for a solution.
-- Besides, she had a childish love of surprise packages and could not resist opening hisgifts.
-- "I don't think it was childish temper and I don't believe you've changed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.
-- You did not gradually open your round childish eyes wider and wider to the discovery of that impostor of a woman who calculates her stores of peace of mind for when she wakes up in the night.
-- Crowding up with these reflections came the reflection that I had seen him with my childish eyes to be a desperately violent man; that I had heard that other convict reiterate that he had tried to murder him; that I had seen him down in the ditch tearing and fighting like a wild beast.
-- A childish association revived with wonderful force in the moment of the slight action, and I fancied that I saw Miss Havisham hanging to the beam.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was gone directly, without her bonnet; with her long, dark, childish hair streaming behind her.
-- But, happy Sissy's happy children loving her; all children loving her; she, grown learned in childish lore; thinking no innocent and pretty fancy ever to be despised; trying hard to know her humbler fellow-creatures, and to beautify their lives of machinery and reality with those imaginative graces and delights, without which the heart of infancy will wither up, the sturdiest physical manhood will be morally stark death, and the plainest national prosperity figures can show, will be the Writing on the Wall, she holding this course as part of no fantastic vow, or bond, or brotherhood, or sisterhood, or pledge, or covenant, or fancy dress, or fancy fair; but simply as a duty to be done, did Louisa see these things of herself?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My uncle followed, while the eider-duck hunter remained still, like a man above any childish sources of astonishment.
-- I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other.
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:
-- Clifford, of course, had still many childish taboos and fetishes.
-- And he would gaze on her with wide, childish eyes, in a relaxation of madonna-worship.
-- It was sheer relaxation on his part, letting go all his manhood, and sinking back to a childish position that was really perverse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Arthur opened the long low window, and looked out upon the old blasted and blackened forest of chimneys, and the old red glare in the sky, which had seemed to him once upon a time but a nightly reflection of the fiery environment that was presented to his childish fancy in all directions, let it look where it would.
-- The novelty of the place, the coming upon it without preparation, the sense of being locked up, the remembrance of that room up-stairs, of the two brothers, and above all of the retiring childish form, and the face in which he now saw years of insufficient food, if not of want, kept him waking and unhappy.
-- He thought of her having been born and bred among these scenes, and shrinking through them now, familiar yet misplaced; he thought of her long acquaintance with the squalid needs of life, and of her innocence; of her solicitude for others, and her few years, and her childish aspect.
-- They began to accommodate themselves to his level, calling him 'Mr Baptist,' but treating him like a baby, and laughing immoderately at his lively gestures and his childish English more, because he didn't mind it, and laughed too.
-- Still, I had other prospects washed and combed into my childish head when it was washed and combed for me, and I took them to a public school when I washed and combed it for myself, and I am here without them, and thus I am a disappointed man.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If I wasn't too old for such things, I'd rather like to play it over again,' said Amy, who began to talk of renouncing childish things at the mature age of twelve.
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