separate是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. (from) 分离的, 分开的v. (from) 分离, 分开,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:
-- CHAPTER II TRISTAN D'ACUNHA AND THE ISLE OF AMSTERDAMIF the yacht had followed the line of the equator, the 196 degrees which separate Australia from America, or, more correctly, Cape Bernouilli from Cape Corrientes, would have been equal to 11,760 geographical miles; but along the 37th parallel these same degrees, owing to the form of the earth, only represent 9,480 miles.
-- In less than six days he cleared the thirteen hundred miles which separate the point of Africa from Tristan d'Acunha, and on the 24th of November, at 3 P. M. the Table Mountain was sighted.
-- Twenty miles of desert separate men more than five hundred miles of ocean."
-- "Come what will," replied Glenarvan, "we will not separate again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The black group broke up into five separate figures, and wound slowly away from me along the band of shining beach.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had seated himself more within the circle of light, where the frequent, uneasy glances of his guests were better enabled to separate the natural expres-sion of his face from the artificial terrors of the war paint.
-- Well informed of the approach of every danger, while it is yet at a distance, the Indian generally rests secure under his knowledge of the signs of the forest, and the long and difficult paths that separate him from those he has most reason to dread.
-- Here are walls enough to separate the whole settlement.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As they stand they are like the figures in an old tapestry; they do not separate themselves from the background, and at a distance seem to lose their pattern, so that you have little but a pleasing piece of colour.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "You are right," replied the reporter, "we will not separate more than we can help."
-- By the light of the fire he cut two little flat rulers, which he joined together at one end so as to form a pair of compasses, whose legs could separate or come together.
-- These shistose pyrites being composed principally of coal, flint, alumina, and sulphuret of iron the latter in excess it was necessary to separate the sulphuret of iron, and transform it into sulphate as rapidly as possible.
-- It was then necessary to separate the glycerine from the fat by saponifying it.
-- Cyrus Harding would only have had at his disposal sulphuric acid, but by heating this acid with the neutral fatty bodies he could separate the glycerine; then from this new combination, he easily separated the olein, the margarin, and the stearin, by employing boiling water.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will separate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and that the meeting will never be.
-- Mr Codlin, still doomed to contemplate the harsh realities of existence, was packing among his linen the candle-ends which had been saved from the previous night's performance; while his companion received the compliments of all the loungers in the stable-yard, who, unable to separate him from the master-mind of Punch, set him down as next in importance to that merry outlaw, and loved him scarcely less.
-- Perhaps not one of the imprisoned souls had been able quite to separate itself in living thought from its old companion.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Each separate counter was a show place of dazzling interest and attraction.
-- "You're sure separate tickets wouldn't do as well?"
-- He put his hand into the first of the boxes and lifted the stack, letting the separate parcels fall.
-- Hurstwood and Vance had gone their separate ways nearly an hour before.
-- Incandescent lights, the reflection of their glow in polished glasses, and the shine of gilt upon the walls, combined into one tone of light which it requires minutes of complacent observation to separate and take particular note of.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guard-ian; but it was a new judge that had just come, and he didn't know the old man; so he said courts mustn't interfere and separate families if they could help it; said he'd druther not take a child away from its father.
-- The thing made a big stir in the town, too, and a good many come out flatfooted and said it was scandal- ous to separate the mother and the children that way.
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