expressly是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 明确表示的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The rough, irregular stones of the street, pointing every way, and designed, one might have thought, expressly to lame all living creatures that approached them, had dammed it into little pools; these were surrounded, each by its own jostling group or crowd, according to its size.
-- 'Indeed, sir,' pursued the nephew, 'for anything I know, you may have expressly worked to give a more suspicious appearance to the suspicious circumstances that surround-ed me.'
-- If you please, committing you in no way, representing you in no way, I will undertake to correct my advice by the exercise of a little new observation and judgment expressly brought to bear upon it.
-- But, madame sat all day at her counter, so expressly unconscious of him, and so particularly determined not to perceive that his being there had any connection with anything below the surface, that he shook in his wooden 245shoes whenever his eye lighted on her.
-- Strange that Creation, designed expressly for Mon-seigneur, should be so soon wrung dry and squeezed out!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With him there was a well-known professor of philosophy, who had come from Harkov expressly to clear up a difference that had arisen between them on a very important philosophical question.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Of course it was a chance, but he could not shake off a very extraordinary impression, and here someone seemed to be speaking expressly for him; the student began telling his friend various details about Aly-ona Ivanovna.
-- At that very moment, as though expressly for his benefit, a huge waggon of hay had just driven in at the gate, com-pletely screening him as he passed under the gateway, and the waggon had scarcely had time to drive through into the yard, before he had slipped in a flash to the right.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We were all extremelyglad to see Traddles so put down, and exalted Steerforth to theskies: especially when he told us, as he condescended to do, thatwhat he had done had been done expressly for us, and for ourcause, and that he had conferred a great boon upon us byunselfishly doing it.
-- He was so polite as to stop at a public-house, expressly on ouraccount, and entertain us with broiled mutton and beer.
-- Though I made no further observationof her at the moment, I may mention here what I did not discoveruntil afterwards, namely, that she was one of a series of protegeswhom my aunt had taken into her service expressly to educate in arenouncement of mankind, and who had generally completed theirabjuration by marrying the baker.
-- Iapproached him tenderly, for I loved even him; but he showed hiswhole set of teeth, got under a chair expressly to snarl, andwouldn't hear of the least familiarity.
-- As we stood, frontto front, I saw so plainly, in the stealthy exultation of his face, whatI already so plainly knew; I mean that he forced his confidenceupon me, expressly to make me miserable, and had set adeliberate trap for me in this very matter; that I couldn't bear it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The stranger looked at me again,--still cocking his eye, as if he were expressly taking aim at me with his invisible gun,--and said, "He's a likely young parcel of bones that.
-- Now, turn to that paper, and tell me whether it distinctly states that the prisoner expressly said that his legal advisers instructed him altogether to reserve his defence?"
-- "Now, follow that passage with your eye, and tell me whether it distinctly states that the prisoner expressly said that he was instructed by his legal advisers wholly to reserve his defence?
-- Mr. Pumblechook's own room was given up to me to dress in, and was decorated with clean towels expressly for the event.
-- He waited for me to declare that I quite understood that he expressly said that he admitted nothing.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I could, with great pleasure, enlarge further upon the manners and virtues of this excellent people; but intending in a short time to publish a volume by itself, expressly upon that subject, I refer the reader thither; and, in the mean time, proceed to relate my own sad catastrophe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have explained to Miss Louisa this is Miss Louisa the miserable but natural end of your late career; and you are to expressly understand that the whole of that subject is past, and is not to be referred to any more.
-- And, Thomas, it is really shameful, with my poor head continually wearing me out, that a boy brought up as you have been, and whose education has cost what yours has, should be found encouraging his sister to wonder, when he knows his father has expressly said that she is not to do it.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She then put on the spectacles and read certain passages aloud from a book sternly, fiercely, wrathfully praying that her enemies (she made them by her tone and manner expressly hers) might be put to the edge of the sword, consumed by fire, smitten by plagues and leprosy, that their bones might be ground to dust, and that they might be utterly exterminated.
-- If I forgot that this scene, the Earth, is expressly meant to be a scene of gloom, and hardship, and dark trial, for the creatures who are made out of its dust, I might have some tenderness for its vanities.
-- How he had made acquaintances in the Prison, expressly that he might come and go there as all other comers and goers did; and how his first ray of light was unconsciously given him by Mr Dorrit himself and by his son; to both of whom he easily became known; with both of whom he talked much, casually ('but always Moleing you'll observe,' said Mr Pancks): and from whom he derived, without being at all suspected, two or three little points of family history which, as he began to hold clues of his own, suggested others.
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