cheap是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 便宜的; 低劣的, 不值钱的,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'My father picked up all these pictures very cheap at auc- tions, and so on,' he said; 'they are all rubbish, except the one over the door, and that is valuable.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But his sister the huntress Diana, patroness of wild beasts, was very angry with him and said, 'So you would fly, Far-Darter, and hand victory over to Neptune with a cheap vaunt to boot.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When his nerves had been steadied by a glass of cheap sherry the only drink the good vicar had available he told him of the interview he had just had.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How it came to pass that any people found it worth their while to sell or buy the wretched little toys, mixed up in its window with cheap newspapers and pork (there was a leg to be raffled for to-morrow-night), matters not here.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a certain wood, which, by rising at early morn, and taking the cheap train, I could reach at eleven in the morning.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Frayed!It was as if the very material you were made of was cheap stuff, and was fraying out to nothing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When she began to walk and talk, he became fond of her; bought a little arm-chair and stood it by the high fender of the lodge fire-place; liked to have her company when he was on the lock; and used to bribe her with cheap toys to come and talk to him.
-- This was an amazing little old woman, with a face like a staring wooden doll too cheap for expression, and a stiff yellow wig perched unevenly on the top of her head, as if the child who owned the doll had driven a tack through it anywhere, so that it only got fastened on.
-- (This was perfectly true, the lady having bought a cheap and showy article on her way to the interview, with a general eye to bribery.)
-- And he did not get Mr Sparkler by any means cheap for Society, even as it was.
-- Strait was the gate and narrow was the way; far straiter and narrower than the broad high road paved with vain professions and vain repetitions, motes from other men's eyes and liberal delivery of others to the judgment all cheap materials costing absolutely nothing.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As she spoke, Amy showed the handsome flask which replaced the cheap one, and looked so earnest and humble in her little effort to forget herself that Meg hugged her on the spot, and Jo pronounced her 'a trump', while Beth ran to the window, and picked her finest rose to ornament the stately bottle.
-- If it was cheap ug-liness, I'd say nothing, but it costs as much as the other, and I don't get any satisfaction out of it.'
-- Now she rides anything, for she doesn't know what fear is, and the stableman lets her have horses cheap because she trains them to carry ladies so well.
-- Tarlatan and tulle were cheap at Nice, so she enveloped herself in them on such occasions, and following the sen-sible English fashion of simple dress for young girls, got up charming little toilettes with fresh flowers, a few trinkets, and all manner of dainty devices, which were both inex-pensive and effective.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As the light looked so dim, and the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee.
-- When not more profitably employed, the sperm whale hunters sometimes capture the Hyena whale, to keep up the supply of cheap oil for domestic employment as some frugal housekeepers, in the absence of company, and quite alone by themselves, burn unsavory tallow instead of odorous wax.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'He'd be cheap with nothing at all, as a premium.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They were always moving from place to place in quest of a cheap situation, and always spending more than they ought.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser Chapter I THE MAGNET ATTRACTING--A WAIF AMID FORCES When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money.
-- If anything, he felt the injustice of the game as it stood, and was not cheap enough to add to it the slightest mental taunt.
-- It's a cheap company.
-- "She's some cheap professional," she gave herself the satisfaction of thinking, and scorned and hated her accordingly.
-- "You've been searching around for some cheap accusation for months and now you think you have it.
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