whistle是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 口哨, 汽笛; 口哨声, 汽笛声v. 吹口哨; 鸣笛,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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But I'd rather see my daughters dead tomorrow than that they should be at the beck and call of the first man that likes to come and whistle for them."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Bud I can look for norther horse nur man of a neeght loike this as black as t' chimbley!und Heathcliff's noan t' chap to coom at MY whistle happen he'll be less hard o' hearing wi' YE!
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her screams were so exactly like the whistle of a steam-engine, that Alice had to hold both her hands over her ears.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was not yet seven, she said, by a long way; she knew her rights and she would have them; and she was still arguing with me when a little low whistle sounded a good way off upon the hill.
-- And just the same whistle that had alarmed my mother and myself over the dead captain's money was once more clearly audible through the night, but this time twice repeated.
-- Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view."
-- Gray, whistle for a wind."
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