needle是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 针, 指针, 针状物,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He took a hypodermic needle from the instrument-bath and lifted the test-tube.
-- Clif Clawson, walking with Fatty Pfaff, shouted, "Gosh, ole pig certainly did jerk when Pa Gottlieb rammed that needle home!"
-- "You killed her, with that needle thing!And not even tell us, so we could call the priest!"
-- He brusquely pinched up the skin of the upper arm and jabbed it with the needle of the syringe, cursing at them for jerking, never seeing their individual faces.
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:
-- The needle and thread he had got ready long before and they lay on his table in a piece of paper.
-- (You must mend that tear, you must take your needle 256 Crime and Punishmentand darn it as I showed you, or to-morrow cough, cough, cough he will make the hole bigger,' she articulated with effort.)
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I did, at least; but I had mydoubts of Peggotty, who was thoughtfully sticking her needle intovarious parts of her face and arms all the time.
-- Then hewent out again; and then she put her thimble and scissors in herpocket, and stuck a needle threaded with black thread neatly in thebosom of her gown, and put on her outer clothing smartly, at alittle glass behind the door, in which I saw the reflection of herpleased face.
-- 'I suppose,' said my aunt, eyeing me as narrowly as she had eyedthe needle in threading it, 'you think Mr. Dick a short name, eh?'
-- Accordingly, she polished the tablets,pointed the pencil, bought an immense account-book, carefullystitched up with a needle and thread all the leaves of the CookeryBook which Jip had torn, and made quite a desperate little attempt'to be good,' as she called it.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was busy with needle and scissors, altering a mourning dressthat Mrs. Elsing had lent to Mrs. Meade.
-- Mose mended the uniform and I thought he did very well, consideringthat he'd never had a needle in his hand before the war.
-- "And the fiah light up the place lak it wuz day we wuz scared the house would buhn, too, and it wuz so bright inthis hyah room that you could mos' pick a needle offen the flo'.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- exclaimed my sister, pointing me out with her needle and thread, and shaking her head at me.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As he had a compassionate heart he pulled out his needle and thread, and sewed her together.
-- After they had travelled along a little way, they met aneedle and a pin walking together along the road: and the needle cried out, 'Stop, stop!'
-- said he, 'all the world seems to have a design against my head this morning': and so saying, he threw himself sulkily into his easy chair; but, oh dear!the needle ran into him; and 81this time the pain was not in his head.
-- Then the kid had to run home and fetch scissors, and a needle and thread, and the goat cut open the monster's stomach, and hardly had she made one cut, than one little kid thrust its head out, and when she had cut farther, all six sprang out one after another, and were all still alive, and had suffered no injury whatever, for in his greediness the monster had swallowed them down whole.
-- You should have stuck the needle in your sleeve.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And, to show the sharpness of their sight towards objects that are near, I have been much pleased with observing a cook pull-ing a lark, which was not so large as a common fly; and a young girl threading an invisible needle with invisible silk.
-- I then took a piece of fine wood, and cut it like the back of a comb, making several holes in it at equal distances with as small a needle as I could get from Glumdalclitch.
-- I have seen a white mare of our family thread a needle (which I lent her on purpose) with that joint.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- [2] The declination is the variation of the needle from the true meridian of a place.
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