being是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 生物, 生命, 存在;,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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When I arrived, a little late, because in my fear of being too early I had walked three times round the cathedral, I found the party already complete.
-- She was a woman of thirty-seven, rather tall and plump, without being fat; she was not pretty, but her face was pleasing, chiefly, perhaps, on account of her kind brown eyes.
-- I was torn between the fear of hurting a nice woman's feelings and the fear of being in the way.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But while so many catastrophes were taking place on land and at sea, a drama not less exciting was being enacted in the agitated air.
-- They were thrown about and whirled round and round without feeling the rotation in the slightest degree, or being sensible that they were removed from a horizontal position.
-- It was necessary at any cost to arrest their downward course, and to prevent the balloon from being engulfed in the waves.
-- But after being suspended for an instant aloft, the balloon began to redescend, the gas escaping by the rent which it was impossible to repair.
-- They were furnished with arms in case they might have to defend themselves when they alighted, and provisions in the event of their aerial voyage being prolonged.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it!Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martin's Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain and weariness obliged, despite himself (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the child's step from the man's, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread of an expectant pleasure-seeker think of the hum and noise always being present to his sense, and of the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy churchyard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come.
-- The door being opened, the child addressed him as grandfather, and told him the little story of our companionship.
-- Kit, who in despatching his bread and meat had been swallowing two-thirds of his knife at every mouthful with the coolness of a juggler, stopped short in his operations on being thus appealed to, and bawled 'Nobody isn't such a fool as to say he doosn't,' after which he incapacitated himself for further conversation by taking a most prodigious sandwich at one bite.
-- The young man reclined against a table at no great distance from his friend, in apparent indifference to everything that had passed; and I who felt the difficulty of any interference, notwithstanding that the old man had appealed to me, both by words and looks made the best feint I could of being occupied in examining some of the goods that were disposed for sale, and paying very little attention to a person before me.
-- These opinions being equally incontrovertible with those he had already pronounced, he went on to inform us that Jamaica rum, though unquestionably an agreeable spirit of great richness and flavour, had the drawback of remaining constantly present to the taste next day; and nobody being venturous enough to argue this point either, he increased in confidence and became yet more companionable and communicative.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The latter resented it, and the result was a scrimmage, after which she was driven out of the house, without being paid the wages due her.
-- Nekhludoff opened the perfumed letter and began to read: "In fulfillment of the duty I assumed of being your memory," the letter ran, "I call to your mind that you have been summoned to serve as juror to-day, the 28th of April, and that, therefore, you cannot accompany us and Kolosoff to the art exhibition, as you promised yesterday in your customary forgetfulness; 脙聽 moins que vous ne soyez dispos脙漏 脙聽 payer 脙聽 la cour d'assises les 300 rubles d'amende que vous vous refusez pour votre cheval, for your failure to appear in time.
-- It was agreeable to feel the power of authority over so vast an estate, and it was disagreeable, because in his youth he was an enthusiastic adherent of Herbert Spencer, and being himself a large land owner, was struck by the proposition in Social Statics that private ownership of land is contrary to the dictates of justice.
-- It just happened that in the jury-room Nekhludoff experienced this disagreeable feeling of being treated with disrespect.
-- The man was speaking of a case that was being tried in the civil division, showing his familiarity with the judges and the famous lawyers by referring to them by name.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere, when thought runs gracefully free of the trammels of precision.
-- Then, when we had all imitated the action of the Medical Man, he said: "Now I want you clearly to understand that this lever, being pressed over, sends the machine gliding into the future, and this other reverses the motion.
-- I was in my laboratory at four o'clock, and since then 芒聙娄 I've lived eight days 芒聙娄 such days as no human being ever lived before!I'm nearly worn out, but I shan't sleep till I've told this thing over to you.
-- It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried vertically at the sides, were spread so that it seemed to hover.
-- "He struck me as being a very beautiful and graceful creature, but indescribably frail.
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:
-- She had had quite a long argument with her sister only the day before all because Alice had begun with 'Let's pretend we're kings and queens;' and her sister, who liked being very exact, had argued that they couldn't, because there were only two of them, and Alice had been reduced at last to say, 'Well, you can be one of them then, and I'll be all the rest.'
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