eccentric是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 古怪(的) , 偏执(的) ; 不同心(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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The kennel, to make amends, ran down the middle of the street when it ran at all: which was only after heavy rains, and then it ran, by many eccentric fits, into the houses.
-- After a hard contest with that eccentric action of thought which had last perplexed him, he had got the better of it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was asking, too, the well- known eccentric enthusiast, Pestsov, a liberal, a great talker, a musician, an historian, and the most delightfully youthful person of fifty, who would be a sauce or garnish for Koznishev and Karenin.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The hasty departure from London soon after the robbery; the large sum carried by Mr. Fogg; his eagerness to reach distant countries; the pretext of an eccentric and foolhardy bet all confirmed Fix in his theory.
-- How did this eccentric personage pass his time on the Mongolia?
-- The brigadier-general was free to mentally confess that, of all the eccentric persons he had ever met, none was comparable to this product of the exact sciences.
-- He certainly would not have recognised Passepartout in the eccentric mountebank's costume; but the latter, lying on his back, perceived his master in the gallery.
-- Three days before, Phileas Fogg had been a criminal, who was being desperately followed up by the police; now he was an honourable gentleman, mathematically pursuing his eccentric journey round the world.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The moment the urgent Martin showed that he was stirred by her graces, she went at his clothes--his corduroys and soft collars and eccentric old gray felt hat--at his vocabulary and his taste in fiction, with new and more patronizing vigor.
-- They sent him, with anxiety over the cost, to a smart school near Zenith, where he met the sons of manufacturers and discovered a taste for fast motors and eccentric clothes, and no taste what ever for studying.
-- He dug down, before six, into a new layer of strength, and at six his examination showed that the flasks containing the original broth still had no growth of bacteria, and the flasks which he had seeded with the original pus had, like the first eccentric flask, after beginning to display a good growth of bacteria cleared up again under the slowly developing attack of the unknown assassin.
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:
-- Though Pulcheria Alexan-drovna felt that the young man was really too eccentric and pinched her hand too much, in her anxiety over her Rodya she looked on his presence as providential, and was un-willing to notice all his peculiarities.
-- Yet apart from his eccentric condition, many people would have thought it justified if they had seen Avdotya Romanov-na, especially at that moment when she was walking to and fro with folded arms, pensive and melancholy.
-- He had spoken the truth, moreover, when he blurted out in his drunken talk on the stairs that Praskovya Pavlovna, Raskolnikov's eccentric landlady, would be jealous of Pul-cheria Alexandrovna as well as of Avdotya Romanovna on his account.
-- It appeared afterwards that on the same evening, at twenty past eleven, he made another very eccentric and unexpected visit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Because his brother was a littleeccentricthough he is not half so eccentric as a good many people- 196he didn't like to have him visible about his house, and sent himaway to some private asylum-place: though he had been left to hisparticular care by their deceased father, who thought him almost anatural.
-- But Dora'saunts soon agreed to regard my aunt as an eccentric and somewhatmasculine lady, with a strong understanding; and although myaunt occasionally ruffled the feathers of Dora's aunts, byexpressing heretical opinions on various points of ceremony, sheloved me too well not to sacrifice some of her little peculiarities tothe general harmony.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 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.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Put the case that, at the same time he held a trust to find a child for an eccentric rich lady to adopt and bring up."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Gradgrind was for ever working, in print and out of print, at this eccentric sum, and he never could make out how it yielded this unaccountable product.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Perspiring and puffing and darting about in eccentric directions, and becoming hotter and dingier every moment, he lashed the tide of the yard into a most agitated and turbid state.
-- Mr Flintwinch, with his wry presence brought to bear upon her daily like some eccentric mechanical force, would perhaps have screwed it out of her, if there had been less resistance in her; but she was too strong for him.
-- Pending whose appearance, she showed to great advantage on a sofa, completing Mr Sparkler's conquest with some remarks upon Dante known to that gentleman as an eccentric man in the nature of an Old File, who used to put leaves round his head, and sit upon a stool for some unaccountable purpose, outside the cathedral at Florence.
-- Between this eccentric personage and Clennam, a tacit understanding and accord had been always improving since Mr Pancks flew over Mr Rugg's back in the Marshalsea Yard.
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