accent是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 口音, 腔调; 重音(符号) vt. 重读,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "It is the accent I've not got," he said.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a thick voice, with something in it a kind of whis-tling overtone that struck me as peculiar; but the English accent was strangely good.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'We be of one blood, ye and I,' said Mowgli, giving the words the Bear accent which all the Hunting People use.
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:
-- For an instant, Cora and Alice had stood trembling and bewildered by this unexpected desertion; but before either had leisure for speech, or even thought, an officer of gigan-tic frame, whose locks were bleached with years and service, but whose air of military grandeur had been rather softened than destroyed by time, rushed out of the body of mist, and folded them to his bosom, while large scalding tears rolled down his pale and wrinkled cheeks, and he exclaimed, in the peculiar accent of Scotland: 'For this I thank thee, Lord!Let danger come as it will, thy servant is now prepared!'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In shops and on the elevated train, little red-faced sweaty people when they heard his accent glared at him, and growled one to another, "There's one of them damn' barb'rous well-poisoning Huns!"
-- One of the Negro harbor-police, expressionless, speaking the English of the Antilles with something of the accent of Piccadilly, said, "Sar, have you any other command for I?
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:
-- She spoke them with a singing accent which was not unpleasing.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No! (in an accent meant to be insinuating) I am sure you have seen and understood me.'
-- 'Thank you,' said he, in an accent of deep mortification, and not another syllable followed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Every turn, look, word, and accent contained a mystery quite distinct from its obvious import, and not one had ever been pondered by him until now.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were strange faces on the streets of Atlantanow, and citizens who a year ago would have pricked op their ears at the sound of even a Western accent paid no heedto the foreign tongues of Europeans who had run the blockade to build machines and turn out Confederate munitions.
-- Above the tumult sounded the voice of the little Zouave, his Creole accent very obvious: "Eef I may twentydollars for Mees Maybelle Merriwether."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I pointed to every thing, and inquired the name of it, which I wrote down in my journal-book when I was alone, and corrected my bad accent by desiring those of the family to pronounce it often.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Miss Kate put up her glass, and, having taken a survey of the little tableau before her, shut her sketch book, say-ing with condescension, 'You've a nice accent and in time will be a clever reader.
-- And there was an anxious accent in Meg's voice.
-- One of the girls kept laughing affectedly, and saying, 'Now Professor,' in a coquettish tone, and the other pronounced her German with an accent that must have made it hard for him to keep sober.
-- If she had even said 'I hate you' in a petulant or coquettish tone, he would have laughed and rather liked it, but the grave, almost sad, accent in her voice made him open his eyes, and ask quickly... 'Why, if you please?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Wholly inattentive to her sister's feelings, Lydia flew about the house in restless ecstasy, calling for everyone's congratulations, and laugh-ing and talking with more violence than ever; whilst the luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repined at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish.
-- Nor did he seem much more at ease; when he spoke, his accent had none of its usual sedateness; and he repeated his inquiries as to the time of her having left Longbourn, and of her having stayed in Derbyshire, so often, and in so hurried a way, as plainly spoke the distraction of his thoughts.
-- It was not often that she could turn her eyes on Mr. Darcy himself; but, whenever she did catch a glimpse, she saw an expression of general complaisance, and in all that he said she heard an accent so removed from hauteur or disdain of his companions, as convinced her that the improvement of manners which she had yesterday witnessed however temporary its existence might prove, had at least outlived one day.
-- Calling back the servant, therefore, she com-missioned him, though in so breathless an accent as made her almost unintelligible, to fetch his master and mistress home instantly.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- " was repeated by Marianne and her mother in an accent of the utmost amazement; and though Elinor could not speak, even HER eyes were fixed on him with the same impatient wonder.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "There, there," and there was a certain Swedish accent noticeable in his voice.
-- Remember," she concluded, tenderly, "love is all a woman has to give," and she laid a strange, sweet accent on the all, "but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave."
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