patience是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 耐心, 忍耐,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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In that impassive, colourless man, with his straw hat and his but-terfly-net, I seemed to see something terrible a creature of infinite patience and craft, with a smiling face and a mur-derous heart.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Oh!I have no pity and no patience for these fools of people.
-- 'If this 'Explanation' gets into anybody's hands, and they have patience to read it through, they may consider me a madman, or a schoolboy, or, more likely, a man condemned to die, who thought it only natural to conclude that all men, excepting himself, esteem life far too lightly, live it far too carelessly and lazily, and are, therefore, one and all, unwor-thy of it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then, with such patience as I could command, I collected a quantity of fruit, and waylaid and killed two rabbits with my last three cartridges.
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:
-- But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced na-tive warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
-- Placing himself at an angle of the works, where he might be a spectator of the scene without, he awaited the result with as much patience as he could summon.
-- The sticks were removed, and the stones lifted; for Indian cunning was known frequently to adopt these objects as covers, laboring with the utmost patience and industry, to conceal each footstep as they proceeded.
-- There may be no great learning, major, in this plan, but with courage and patience it can all be done.'
-- The patience and forbearance of Indian fortitude could alone support such an appearance of abstraction, as seemed now to have turned each dark and motionless figure into stone.
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:
-- "My dear, I have no patience with you," cried Mrs. MacAndrew.
-- "I have no patience with you.
-- It needed a good deal of firmness and still more patience to induce him to come, but he was really too ill to offer any effective resistance to Stroeve's entreaties and to my determination.
-- I shall never forget the tactful patience with which he persuaded him to take nourishment.
-- Women are the instruments of my pleasure; I have no patience with their claim to be helpmates, partners, companions."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They must wait with what patience they could for daylight.
-- They must, therefore, be satisfied with visiting each hole, and rummaging in it with a stick, hoping by dint of patience to do what could not be done in any other way.
-- And when they thought of the valuables which this storeroom contained, the patience so much recommended by the engineer, fast changed into great irritation, and there certainly was room for it.
-- This with admirable patience was all unpicked by Gideon Spilett and Herbert, for Pencroft had been obliged to give this work up, as it irritated him beyond measure; but he had no equal in the sewing part of the business.
-- The black showed the greatest patience and even extreme zeal in instructing his pupil, and the pupil exhibited remarkable intelligence in profiting by the lessons he received from his master.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER 62A faint light, twinkling from the window of the counting-house on Quilp's wharf, and looking inflamed and red through the night-fog, as though it suffered from it like an eye, forewarned Mr Sampson Brass, as he approached the wooden cabin with a cautious step, that the excellent proprietor, his esteemed client, was inside, and probably waiting with his accustomed patience and sweetness of temper the fulfilment of the appointment which now brought Mr Brass within his fair domain.
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:
-- cried Alice, losing all her patience this time.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Someone was singing, a dull, old, droning sailor's song, with a droop and a quaver at the end of every verse, and seemingly no end to it at all but the patience of the singer.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And the Canadian, too, his strength and patience at an end, appeared no more.
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:
-- Then he is so changeable and unsure of himself it requires the greatest patience and understanding to help him.
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