unpleasant是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 令人不快的, 讨厌的,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:
-- "I don't pretend it is that, but still, after all, such an adventure would not be very unpleasant to me.
-- The air was saturated with the acrid and unpleasant odor of sulphurous acid.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Supposing that anything happened to our young friend here you will forgive the unpleasant hypothesis! who would inherit the estate?'
-- I will take an unpleasant remembrance back to London with me to-morrow.'
-- But first I had the unpleasant duty of breaking the news to Barrymore and his wife.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Sir,' said the Chief Butler, 'that is very unpleasant to the feelings of one in my position, as calculated to awaken prejudice; and I should wish to leave immediately.'
-- Any unpleasant bygones between us are bygones, I hope.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel poor-devilish, too; and grow convivial upon tears; and say to them bluntly, with full eyes and empty glasses, and in not altogether unpleasant sadness Give it up, Sub-Subs!For by how much the more pains ye take to please the world, by so much the more shall ye for ever go thankless!Would that I could clear out Hampton Court and the Tuileries for ye!But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven-storied heavens, and making refugees of long-pampered Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, against your coming.
-- And at first, this sort of thing is unpleasant enough.
-- You meet them on the Line in time for the full flower of the Equatorial feeding season, having just returned, perhaps, from spending the summer in the Northern seas, and so cheating summer of all unpleasant weariness and warmth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Fagin concluded by drawing a rather disagreeable picture of the discomforts of hanging; and, with great friendliness and politeness of manner, expressed his anxious hopes that he might never be obliged to submit Oliver Twist to that unpleasant operation.
-- Then, the hostler was told to give the horse his head; and, his head being given him, he made a very unpleasant use of it: tossing it into the air with great disdain, and running into the parlour windows over the way; after performing those feats, and supporting himself for a short time on his hind-legs, he started off at great speed, and rattled out of the town right gallantly.
-- By a remarkable coincidence, the other two had been visited with the same unpleasant sensation at that precise moment.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the dancing recommenced, however, and Darcy approached to claim her hand, Charlotte could not help cautioning her in a whisper, not to be a simpleton, and al-low her fancy for Wickham to make her appear unpleasant in the eyes of a man ten times his consequence.
-- 'I found,' said he, 'as the time drew near that I had better not meet Mr. Darcy; that to be in the same room, the same party with him for so many hours together, might be more than I could bear, and that scenes might arise unpleasant to more than myself.'
-- Elizabeth, feeling it incumbent on her to relieve him from so unpleasant a situation, now put herself forward to confirm his account, by mentioning her prior knowledge of it from Charlotte herself; and endeavoured to put a stop to the exclamations of her mother and sisters by the earnest-ness of her congratulations to Sir William, in which she was readily joined by Jane, and by making a variety of remarks on the happiness that might be expected from the match, the excellent character of Mr. Collins, and the convenient distance of Hunsford from London.
-- 'It is a circumstance which Darcy could not wish to be generally known, because if it were to get round to the la-dy's family, it would be an unpleasant thing.'
-- Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a soli-tary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This little wandering journey, without settled place of abode, had been so unpleasant to me, that my own house, as I called it to myself, was a perfect settlement to me compared to that; and it rendered everything about me so comfortable, that I resolved I would never go a great way from it again while it should be my lot to stay on the island.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "It is certainly an unpleasant thing," replied Mr. Dashwood, "to have those kind of yearly drains on one's income.
-- But suspicion of something unpleasant is the inevitable consequence of such an alteration as we just witnessed in him.
-- She determined, after some consideration, that if appearances continued many days longer as unpleasant as they now were, she would represent in the strongest manner to her mother the necessity of some serious enquiry into the affair.
-- So upon that, he smirked, and simpered, and looked grave, and seemed to know something or other, and at last he said in a whisper, 'For fear any unpleasant report should reach the young ladies under your care as to their sister's indisposition, I think it advisable to say, that I believe there is no great reason for alarm; I hope Mrs. Dashwood will do very well.'"
-- His opinion, however, made some little amends for his delay, for though acknowledging a very unexpected and unpleasant alteration in his patient, he would not allow the danger to be material, and talked of the relief which a fresh mode of treatment must procure, with a confidence which, in a lesser degree, was communicated to Elinor.
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