innocence是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 清白, 天真,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:
-- Oh, non-sense!Here have I been sitting in my box at the French theatre for the last five years like a statue of inaccessible vir-tue, and kept out of the way of all admirers, like a silly little idiot!Now, there's this man, who comes and pays down his hundred thousand on the table, before you all, in spite of my five years of innocence and proud virtue, and I dare be sworn he has his sledge outside waiting to carry me off.
-- For instance, Alexandra Iva-novna liked to sleep late, and was always dreaming, though her dreams had the peculiarity of being as innocent and naive as those of a child of seven; and the very innocence of her dreams annoyed her mother.
-- When I woke up at half-past seven and tore my hair in despair for my loss and carelessness, I awoke the general, who was sleeping the sleep of innocence near me.
-- 'Quite so, nonsense!Ha, ha, ha!dear me!He did amuse me, did the general!We went off on the hot scent to Wilkin's together, you know; but I must first observe that the general was even more thunderstruck than I myself this morning, when I awoke him after discovering the theft; so much so that his very face changed he grew red and then pale, and at length flew into a paroxysm of such noble wrath that I assure you I was quite surprised!He is a most generous-hearted man!He tells lies by the thousands, I know, but it is merely a weakness; he is a man of the highest feelings; a simple-minded man too, and a man who carries the con-viction of innocence in his very appearance.
-- 'You are innocent and in your innocence lies all your perfection oh, remember that!What is my passion to you? you are mine now; I shall be near you all my life I shall not live long!'
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:
-- The look of innocence and surprise which he received in return convinced Duncan of the necessity of being more explicit.
-- 'Heyward,' she said, looking him full in the face with a touching expression of innocence and dependency, 'give me the sacred presence and the holy sanction of that parent before you urge me further.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had only come to know the fact through the innocence of the child, and though the old man was by at the time, and saw my undisguised surprise, he had preserved a strange mystery upon the subject and offered no word of explanation.
-- 'That, ladies and gentlemen,' said Mrs Jarley, 'is Jasper Packlemerton of atrocious memory, who courted and married fourteen wives, and destroyed them all, by tickling the soles of their feet when they were sleeping in the consciousness of innocence and virtue.
-- Absorbed in these painful ruminations, thinking with a drooping heart of his mother and little Jacob, feeling as though even the consciousness of innocence would be insufficient to support him in the presence of his friends if they believed him guilty, and sinking in hope and courage more and more as they drew nearer to the notary's, poor Kit was looking earnestly out of the window, observant of nothing, when all at once, as though it had been conjured up by magic, he became aware of the face of Quilp.
-- While he was thus engaged, Kit made some anxious inquiries about his employers, and whether they had expressed any opinion concerning him; but all he could learn was that Mr Abel had himself broken the intelligence to his mother, with great kindness and delicacy, late on the previous night, but had himself expressed no opinion of his innocence or guilt.
-- My innocence will come out, mother, and I shall be brought back again; I feel confidence in that.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But he was too deep, and too ready, and too clever for me, and by the time the two men had come back out of breath and confessed that they had lost the track in a crowd, and been scolded like thieves, I would have gone bail for the innocence of Long John Silver.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This strange mood of patience and innocence which had persisted in him for some days, was passing away, he would be left again a prey to the horrible passions and tortures.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A terror to the smiling innocence of the villages through which he floats; his swart visage and bold swagger are not unshunned in cities.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Elinor would not contend, and only replied, "Whoever may have been so detestably your enemy, let them be cheated of their malignant triumph, my dear sister, by seeing how nobly the consciousness of your own innocence and good intentions supports your spirits.
-- He had left the girl whose youth and innocence he had seduced, in a situation of the utmost distress, with no creditable home, no help, no friends, ignorant of his address!He had left her, promising to return; he neither returned, nor wrote, nor relieved her."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was very evident that he had a great contempt for any assumption of dignity or innocence on the part of these young women.
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