pain是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 痛, 痛苦; (pl. ) 努力, 劳苦vt. 使痛苦,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I should not say that it is not worth while to yell and feel pain because I have but a fortnight to live.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And those that held Methone and Thaumacia, with Meli-boea and rugged Olizon, these were led by the skilful archer Philoctetes, and they had seven ships, each with fifty oars-men all of them good archers; but Philoctetes was lying in great pain in the Island of Lemnos, where the sons of the Achaeans left him, for he had been bitten by a poisonous water snake.
-- The goddess went dazed and discomfited away, and Iris, fleet as the wind, drew her from the throng, in pain and with her fair skin all besmirched.
-- So saying, she wiped the ichor from the wrist of her daughter with both hands, whereon the pain left her, and her hand was healed.
-- His comrades bore Sarpedon out of the fight, in great pain by the weight of the spear that was dragging from his wound.
-- With all speed he reached high Olympus, home of the gods, and in great pain sat down be-side Jove the son of Saturn.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "The pain had passed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A sharp, hoarse cry of animal pain came from the enclo-sure behind us.
-- It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice.
-- Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe I have thought since I could have stood it well enough.
-- I felt my breath going, for I was quite out of training; it whooped as I drew it, and I felt a pain like a knife at my side.
-- For it is just this question of pain that parts us.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Shere Khan had jumped at a woodcutter's campfire, as Father Wolf had said, and was furious from the pain of his burned feet.
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:
-- 'I had thought,' resumed Cora, 'that an Indian warrior was patient, and that his spirit felt not and knew not the pain his body suffered.'
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:
-- He wrote his biography芒聭露 avowedly to "remove certain misconceptions which had gained currency" in regard to the later part of his father's life, and which had "caused considerable pain to persons still living."
-- I felt she must be suffering, and I did not want to see a pain which I could not help; but in my heart was a desire, that I felt a little ashamed of, to see how she was taking it.
-- He was constantly wounded, and yet his good-nature was such that he could not bear malice: the viper might sting him, but he never learned by experience, and had no sooner recovered from his pain than he tenderly placed it once more in his bosom.
-- I had no sympathy for Blanche Stroeve, but knew that it would only pain poor Dirk if I told him exactly what I thought of her.
-- When he told me this he put his hand to his cheek as though he still felt the smart of the blow, and in his eyes was a pain that was heartrending and an amazement that was ludicrous.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Several times, one or other of the settlers descended to the beach in the midst of ice which the waves heaped up at each tide, but they soon climbed up again to Granite House, and it was not without pain and difficulty that their hands could hold to the rounds of the ladder.
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.
-- On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will separate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and that the meeting will never be.
-- But that time passed by, and although she continued to be sad when she came there, still she could bear to come, and so went on until it was pain no longer, but a solemn pleasure, and a duty she had learned to like.
-- How many of the mounds in that old churchyard where she had lately strayed, grew green above the graves of children!And though she thought as a child herself, and did not perhaps sufficiently consider to what a bright and happy existence those who die young are borne, and how in death they lose the pain of seeing others die around them, bearing to the tomb some strong affection of their hearts (which makes the old die many times in one long life), still she thought wisely enough, to draw a plain and easy moral from what she had seen that night, and to store it, deep in her mind.
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