reckless是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 鲁莽的,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:
-- At last she looked up with something reckless and defiant in her man-ner.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Rogojin asked his question like a lost soul appealing to some divinity, with the reckless daring of one appointed to die, who has nothing to lose.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- May I never live to hear it, but I greatly fear that Achilles has cut off the retreat of brave Hector and has chased him on to the plain where he was singlehanded; I fear he may have put an end to the reckless daring which possessed my husband, who would never remain with the body of his men, but would dash on far in front, foremost of them all in valour.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant.
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:
-- Though the arts of peace were unknown to this fatal region, its forests were alive with men; its shades and glens rang with the sounds of martial music, and the echoes of its mountains threw back the laugh, or repeated the wan-ton cry, of many a gallant and reckless youth, as he hurried by them, in the noontide of his spirits, to slumber in a long night of forgetfulness.
-- She eluded the grasp of the savage, and reckless of her own safety, threw herself on the bosom of Alice, striving with convulsed and ill-directed fingers, to tear asunder the twigs which con-fined the person of her sister.
-- Raising his cry of battle, which recalled some six or seven warriors, and reckless of the disparity of their num-bers, he rushed upon his enemy.
-- He was answered by a burst from the lips of the scout, whose tall person was just then seen moving swiftly toward him, along those dangerous crags, with steps as bold and reckless as if he possessed the power to move in air.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Resuming his boisterous manner with the same ease with which he had thrown it off, Quilp was in an instant the same uproarious, reckless little savage he had been a few seconds before.
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:
-- she cried, in a high, reckless cry.
-- How pleased Gudrun was to come out of the shop, and enter the car, and be borne swiftly away into the downhill of palpable dusk, with Ursula and Birkin!What an adventure life seemed at this moment!How deeply, how suddenly she envied Ursula!Life for her was so quick, and an open door so reckless as if not only this world, but the world that was gone and the world to come were nothing to her.
-- Outside, somebody was singing, in a manly, reckless handsome voice:"Mach mir auf, mach mir auf, du Stolze,Mach mir ein Feuer von Holze.Vom Regen bin ich nassVom Regen bin ich nass "Gudrun knew that that song would sound through her eternity, sung in a manly, reckless, mocking voice.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The curate might s et as many chapters as he pleased for Catherine to get by heart, and Joseph might thrash Heathcliff till his arm ached; they forgot everything the minute they were together again: at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge; and many a time I've cried to myself to watch them growing more reckless daily, and I not daring to speak a syllable, for fear of losing the small power I still retained over the unfriended creatures.
-- He neither wept nor prayed; he cursed and defied: execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation.
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