ice是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 冰; 冰冻甜食vt. 冰冻, 使成冰,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:
-- I replied that I could not answer with any degree of certainty, for the ice had not broken until near midnight, and the traveller might have arrived at a place of safety before that time; but of this I could not judge.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'm not forgetting the time I ate a whole tray and went to the Calverts' and they had ice cream outof ice they'd brought all the way from Savannah, and I couldn't eat but a spoonful.
-- "Oh, my God!cried Scarlett, her blood turning to ice water.
-- An' one night she say terme affer we done sponge off de young Misses 'bout ten times, she say, 'Mammy, effen Ah could sell mah soul, Ah'dsell it fer some ice ter put on mah gals' haids.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But as she grew, and promised to be very beautiful, I gradually did worse, and with my praises, and with my jewels, and with my teachings, and with this figure of myself always before her, a warning to back and point my lessons, I stole her heart away, and put ice in its place."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder; who likewise showed me a treatise he had written concerning the malleability of fire, which he intended to publish.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His delight was to have found the original work in the Ice landic tongue, which he declared to be one of the most magnificent and yet simple idioms in the world--while at the same time its grammatical combinations were the most varied known to students.
-- When the great annual breakup of the ice takes place, white bears come over to Iceland, carried by the floating masses of ice from the north.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The ice of the pale face broke at the word, and little lights and shoots of expression passed all over it.
-- As the heat of the glowing day when they had stopped to drink at the streams of melted ice and snow, was changed to the searching cold of the frosty rarefied night air at a great height, so the fresh beauty of the lower journey had yielded to barrenness and desolation.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was ice cream, actually two dishes of it, pink and white, and cake and fruit and distracting french bonbons and, in the middle of the table, four great bouquets of hot house flowers.
-- He looks as if he'd like to know us but he's bashful, and Meg is so prim she won't let me speak to him when we pass,' said Jo, as the plates went round, and the ice began to melt out of sight, with ohs and ahs of satisfaction.
-- And there was Laurie, with a full cup in one hand and a plate of ice in the other.
-- Jo led the way, and as if used to waiting on ladies, Laurie drew up a little table, brought a second installment of coffee and ice for Jo, and was so obliging that even particular Meg pronounced him a 'nice boy'.
-- Poor dear, just wait till I make my fortune, and you shall revel in carriages and ice cream and high-heeled slippers, and po-sies, and red-headed boys to dance with.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Further on, from the bright red windows of the "Sword-Fish Inn," there came such fervent rays, that it seemed to have melted the packed snow and ice from before the house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement, rather weary for me, when I struck my foot against the flinty projections, because from hard, remorseless service the soles of my boots were in a most miserable plight.
-- Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
-- Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet, and see what sort of a place this "Spouter" may be.
-- If there yet lurked any ice of indifference towards me in the Pagan's breast, this pleasant, genial smoke we had, soon thawed it out, and left us cronies.
-- Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern, the Pequod now went rolling through the bright Quito spring, which, at sea, almost perpetually reigns on the threshold of the eternal August of the Tropic.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The ice being thus broken, he launched into further observation pretending to forget that her fingers were still retained by his.
-- Here was another item detailing the wrecking of a vessel in ice and snow off Prince's Bay on Staten Island.
-- The "Herald," getting up an entertainment for the benefit of its free ice fund, did her the honour to beg her to appear along with celebrities for nothing.
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 hare-lip she got to pumping me about England, and blest if I didn't think the ice was getting mighty thin sometimes.
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