on是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 连接上prep. 在…上; 靠近ad. 向前, 继续,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《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On this very 2nd of October he had dismissed James Forster, because that luckless youth had brought him shaving-water at eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit instead of eighty-six; and he was awaiting his successor, who was due at the house between eleven and half-past.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her father lay shrinking with fever on the floor of the wagon-box, and about him played her brothers and sisters, dirty brats, tattered brats, hilarious brats.
-- "We're going on jus' long as we can.
-- By sheer brass and obstinacy he had, at fourteen, become the unofficial, also decidedly unpaid, assistant to the Doc, and while the Doc was on a country call he took charge--though what there was to take charge of, no one could ever make out.
-- Yet this afternoon he read steadily at the section on the lymphatic system, and he muttered the long and perfectly incomprehensible words in a hum which made drowsier the dusty room.
-- It was the central room of the three occupied by Doc Vickerson, facing on Main Street above the New York Clothing Bazaar.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Writing to his brother Mihail, Dostoevsky says: 'They snapped words over our heads, and they made us put on the white shirts worn by persons condemned to death.
-- The intense suffering of this experience left a lasting stamp on Dostoevsky's mind.
-- He describes the awful agony of the condemned man and insists on the cruelty of inflicting such torture.
-- He was weighed down by debt, his brother's family was depen-dent on him, he was forced to write at heart-breaking speed, and is said never to have corrected his work.
-- He had successfully avoided meeting his landlady on the staircase.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- DAVID COPPERFIELDCharles Dickens 2Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) - The most popular and perhapsgreatest English novelist and short-story writer, he drew on hisexperiences as a poor child to produce extremely realistic stories.
-- 151I Begin life on My Own Account, and Don't Like ItCHAPTER XII .
-- 165Liking Life on My Own Account No Better, I Form a GreatResolutionCHAPTER XIII .
-- 790A Light Shines on My WayCHAPTER LXIII .
-- I cannotclose this Volume more agreeably to myself, than with a hopefulglance towards the time when I shall again put forth my two greenleaves once a month, and with a faithful remembrance of the genialsun and showers that have fallen on these leaves of DavidCopperfield, and made me happy.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was on the wedding-day of this beloved friend that Emma first sat in mournful thought of any continuance.
-- A large debt of gratitude was owing here; but the intercourse of the last seven years, the equal footing and perfect unre-serve which had soon followed Isabella's marriage, on their being left to each other, was yet a dearer, tenderer recol-lection.
-- Not a speck on them.'
-- 'Emma knows I never flatter her,' said Mr. Knightley, 'but I meant no reflection on any body.
-- Some people even talked of a promise to his wife on her deathbed, and others of the son and the uncle not letting him.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The first to do so was the now defunct Examiner, which, in the impression bearing date July 15, 1876, entitled one of its articles "The Wessex Labourer," the article turning out to be no dissertation on farming during the Heptarchy, but on the modern peasant of the south-west counties, and his presentation in these stories.
-- The change at the root of this has been the recent supplanting of the class of stationary cottagers, who carried on the local traditions and humours, by a population of more or less migratory labourers, which has led to a break of continuity in local history, more fatal than any other thing to the preservation of legend, folk-lore, close inter-social relations, and eccentric individualities.
-- His Christian name was Gabriel, and on working days he was a young man of sound judgment, easy motions, proper dress, and general good character.
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