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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- he muttered, gazing at the scene with a sort of triumphant but unpleasant smile.
-- I don't know whether she meant it for a hint that I had come empty-handed, without a present for her birthday, or what,' added Gania, with an unpleasant smile.
-- 'I quite understand how unpleasant your position is, and that is what made you abuse me.
-- In fact, she went so far as to inform Totski on several occasions that such was the case, which the latter gentleman consid-ered a very unpleasant communication indeed.
-- 'Yes, it is,' replied Rogojin with an unpleasant smile, as if he had expected his guest to ask the question, and then to make some disagreeable remark.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whiffs of an unpleasant chemical odour met them, and there was a muffled sound of conversation, very rapid and subdued.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That night I had some very unpleasant dreams.
-- I was startled by a great patch of vivid scarlet on the ground, and going up to it found it to be a peculiar fungus, branched and corrugated like a foliaceous lichen, but deli-quescing into slime at the touch; and then in the shadow of some luxuriant ferns I came upon an unpleasant thing, the dead body of a rabbit covered with shining flies, but still warm and with the head torn off.
-- Then sud-denly traversing a little glade, I saw with an unpleasant start two clumsy legs among the trees, walking with noise-less footsteps parallel with my course, and perhaps thirty yards away from me.
-- I felt assured now that my tawny-faced antagonist was stalking me once more; and coupled with that was another unpleasant realisation, that I had lost my way.
-- But from that night un-til the end came, there was but one thing happened to tell save a series of innumerable small unpleasant details and the fretting of an incessant uneasiness.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was broad-shouldered and double-jointed, with short curly black hair, and a bluff but not unpleasant countenance, having a mingled air of fun and arrogance From his Herculean frame and great powers of limb he had received the nickname of BROM BONES, by which he was universally known.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In point of fact, it would seem that the waiter felt this wholesome truth, for when he returned for the empty plates and dishes and was informed by Mr Swiveller with dignified carelessness that he would call and settle when he should be passing presently, he displayed some perturbation of spirit and muttered a few remarks about 'payment on delivery' and 'no trust,' and other unpleasant subjects, but was fain to content himself with inquiring at what hour it was likely that the gentleman would call, in order that being presently responsible for the beef, greens, and sundries, he might take to be in the way at the time.
-- Do I see anything in the way I'm made, which calls upon me to be a snivelling, solemn, whispering chap, sneaking about as if I couldn't help it, and expressing myself in a most unpleasant snuffle?
-- As he was entirely alone, it may be presumed that, in these remarks, Mr Swiveller addressed himself to his fate or destiny, whom, as we learn by the precedents, it is the custom of heroes to taunt in a very bitter and ironical manner when they find themselves in situations of an unpleasant nature.
-- Mr Richard, you'll remember, if this gentleman should be found to have hung himself to the bed-post, or any unpleasant accident of that kind should happen you'll remember, Mr Richard, that this ten pound note was given to you in part payment of two years' rent?
-- 'It would be an extremely unpleasant circumstance if he was to bounce out suddenly,' said Brass.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He explained this feeling by the development of a fine aesthetic taste, and yet this consciousness caused him unpleasant sensations.
-- This member of the court, a very punctilious man, had this morning had an unpleasant encounter with his wife, which was caused by her spending her monthly allowance before the month was up.
-- Whether he received an unpleasant letter from his mother, or was backward in his composition, or felt the ceaseless sadness of youth, it would suffice for him to see her and his spirit resumed its wonted good cheer.
-- Then, he needed no money, and wanted not a third part what his mother gave him, disclaimed title to his father's land, distributing it among the peasants; now, the fifteen hundred rubles' monthly allowance he received from his mother did not suffice for his needs, and he often made it the cause of unpleasant conversation with her.
-- At first this renunciation of self was unpleasant, but it was short lived, and Nekhludoff, who now began to smoke and drink wine, soon ceased to experience this unpleasant feeling, and was even greatly relieved.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "The unpleasant sensations of the start were less poignant now.
-- It was greatly weather-worn, and that imparted an unpleasant suggestion of disease.
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