uncommon是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 罕见的, 不常见的,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He worked skilfully and with uncommon energy.
-- They managed their immense property with rare ability and uncommon energy.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Totski himself, who had the reputation of being a capital talker, and was usually the life and soul of these entertain-ments, was as silent as any on this occasion, and sat in a state of, for him, most uncommon perturbation.
-- To fill a novel with typi-cal characters only, or with merely strange and uncommon people, would render the book unreal and improbable, and would very likely destroy the interest.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He can trespass, he can burgle, he could walk through a cordon of policemen as easy as me or you could give the slip to a blind man!Easier!For these here blind chaps hear uncommon sharp, I'm told.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I did not know then that a reddish lumi-nosity, at least, is not uncommon in human eyes.
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:
-- Small as it was, this uncommon engine had excited the curiosity of most of the Europeans in the camp, though several of the provincials were seen to handle it, not only without fear, but with the utmost familiarity.
-- As bright examples of great qualities are but too uncommon among Christians, so are they singular and solitary with the Indi-ans; though, for the honor of our common nature, neither are incapable of producing them.
-- He had been fond of believing, from the uncommon for-bearance of the savages, that he was reserved as a prisoner to be delivered to Montcalm.
-- I do believe 'killdeer' would take an uncommon range today!'
-- repeated the scout, who was fast losing his in-terest in the scene, in an apathy nearly assimilated to that of his red associates, but who now advanced in uncommon earnestness to regard the bloody badge.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The fire-flies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon bright-ness would stream across his path; and if, by chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with a witch's token.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The wild young grandson makes answer to this and says, "You're as rich as rich can be; you have been at no uncommon expense on my account, you're saving up piles of money for my little sister that lives with you in a secret, stealthy, hugger-muggering kind of way and with no manner of enjoyment why can't you stand a trifle for your grown-up relation?"
-- Here he by no means diminished the impression he had just produced, for he ate hard eggs, shell and all, devoured gigantic prawns with the heads and tails on, chewed tobacco and water-cresses at the same time and with extraordinary greediness, drank boiling tea without winking, bit his fork and spoon till they bent again, and in short performed so many horrifying and uncommon acts that the women were nearly frightened out of their wits, and began to doubt if he were really a human creature.
-- Arrived at his destination, the first object that presented itself to his view was a pair of very imperfectly shod feet elevated in the air with the soles upwards, which remarkable appearance was referable to the boy, who being of an eccentric spirit and having a natural taste for tumbling, was now standing on his head and contemplating the aspect of the river under these uncommon circumstances.
-- To this Ladies' Seminary, then, Richard Swiveller hied, with designs obnoxious to the peace of the fair Sophia, who, arrayed in virgin white, embellished by no ornament but one blushing rose, received him on his arrival, in the midst of very elegant not to say brilliant preparations; such as the embellishment of the room with the little flower-pots which always stood on the window-sill outside, save in windy weather when they blew into the area; the choice attire of the day-scholars who were allowed to grace the festival; the unwonted curls of Miss Jane Wackles who had kept her head during the whole of the preceding day screwed up tight in a yellow play-bill; and the solemn gentility and stately bearing of the old lady and her eldest daughter, which struck Mr Swiveller as being uncommon but made no further impression upon him.
-- Standing, however, being a tiresome attitude to a gentleman already fatigued with walking, and the dwarf being one of that kind of persons who usually make themselves at home, he soon cast his eyes upon a chair, into which he skipped with uncommon agility, and perching himself on the back with his feet upon the seat, was thus enabled to look on and listen with greater comfort to himself, besides gratifying at the same time that taste for doing something fantastic and monkey-like, which on all occasions had strong possession of him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yes, and to fix matters with the lawyer----" And suddenly, before his imagination, appeared with uncommon vividness the picture of the prisoner with the black, squinting eyes.
-- The kindness and gentleness of such an uncommon perso n so affected Maslova that she gave herself up to her with her whole soul, unconsciously acquired her glance and involuntarily imitated her in everything.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ned Land was a Canadian, with an uncommon quickness of hand, and who knew no equal in his dangerous occupation.
-- When they have to defend their young their rage is terrible, and it is not uncommon for them to break the fishing-boats to pieces."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Well, he was right; he was most always right; he had an uncommon level head for a nigger.
-- The first chance we got the duke he had some show- bills printed; and after that, for two or three days as we floated along, the raft was a most uncommon lively place, for there warn't nothing but sword fighting and rehearsing as the duke called it going on all the time.
-- He was uncommon bright, the duke was, and he soon struck it.
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