rattle是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 发出格格声,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The rattle of the harness was the chink of money, and more drafts were honoured in five minutes than even Tellson's, with all its foreign and home connec-tion, ever paid in thrice the time.
-- After bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy with a weak rattle in its throat, you fell into Tellson's down two steps, and came to your senses in a miserable little shop, with two little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the din-giest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet-street, and which were made the dingi-er by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar.
-- With a wild rattle and clatter, and an inhuman abandon-ment of consideration not easy to be understood in these days, the carriage dashed through streets and swept round corners, with women screaming before it, and men clutch-ing each other and clutching children out of its way.
-- So, he pushed open the door with the weak rattle in its throat, stumbled down the two steps, got past the two ancient cashiers, and shouldered himself into the musty back closet where Mr. Lorry sat at great books ruled for fig-ures, with perpendicular iron bars to his window as if that were ruled for figures too, and everything under the clouds were a sum.
-- She seemed to raise it (the listener's eyes were always on his pa-per), and to let it fall with a rattle on the ledge before her, as if the axe had dropped.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Anna, forgetting her inward agitation in the work of packing, was standing at a table in her boudoir, packing her traveling bag, when Annushka called her attention to the rattle of some carriage driving up.
-- As she sat in a corner of the comfortable carriage, that hardly swayed on its supple springs, while the grays trotted swiftly, in the midst of the unceasing rattle of wheels and the changing impressions in the pure air, Anna ran over the events of the last days, and she saw her position quite differently from how it had seemed at home.
-- Then he heard the rattle of the wheels and the snort of the sleek horse close by him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is a Ford Motor Factory, and if its products rattle a little, they are beautifully standardized, with perfectly interchangeable parts.
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:
-- Her breathing was hoarse and difficult, there was a sort of rattle in her throat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A bird, in a cage very little bigger than himself,makes a mournful rattle now and then in hopping on his perch,two inches high, or dropping from it; but neither sings nor chirps.
-- I was so muchdismayed by these words, and particularly by the repetition of thelast unknown one, which was a kind of rattle in his throat, that Icould make no answer; hereupon the old man, still holding me bythe hair, repeated'Oh, what do you want?
-- This, and the reference of all his little bills atthe county inn where he slept, to my aunt, before they were paid,induced me to suspect that he was only allowed to rattle hismoney, and not to spend it.
-- What a rattle I am!Mr.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The rattle of the quarter-jack again from its niche, its blows for three-quarters, its fussy retreat, were almost painfully abrupt, and caused many of the congregation to start palpably.
-- It was hardly credible that the jack had not got wrong with the minutes when the rattle began again, the puppet emerged, and the four quarters were struck fitfully as before.
-- The restless and shadowy figure of a colt wandered about a loose-box at the end, whilst the steady grind of all the eaters was occasionally diversified by the rattle of a rope or the stamp of a foot.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The rattle of gold reached his ears.
-- "Well," Madame Vauquer cried in sharp tones, that rang above the rattle of spoons and plates and the sound of other voices, "and is there anything the matter with the bread?"
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was the click of china andthe rattle of silver as Pork, the valet-butler of Tara, laid the table for supper.
-- From the kitchen below, she heard the rattle of china as Prissy prepared breakfast, but no sound of Mrs. Meade'sBetsy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hears his number called, hears himself challenged, hears the rattle of the muskets, hears the orders 'Make ready!Present!Cover him steady, men!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The nurse, to quiet her babe, made use of a rattle which was a kind of hol-low vessel filled with great stones, and fastened by a cable to the child's waist: but all in vain; so that she was forced to apply the last remedy by giving it suck.
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:
-- Talk, talk, talk!What hell it was, the continual rattle of it!
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