excuse是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 原谅, 宽恕, 免除n. 借口, 辩解,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《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I hope, Mr. Pip, you will excuse my sending round.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She tried to excuse herself by saying that she would not be able to find the way thither.
-- He replied: 'Lord King, your majesty must excuse me, I am a poor huntsman.'
-- Then the golden hair streamed forth, and let the boy excuse himself as he might, it was of no use.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I hope the gentle reader will excuse me for dwelling on these and the like particulars, which, however insignifi-cant they may appear to groveling vulgar minds, yet will certainly help a philosopher to enlarge his thoughts and imagination, and apply them to the benefit of public as well as private life, which was my sole design in presenting this and other accounts of my travels to the world; wherein I have been chiefly studious of truth, without affecting any ornaments of learning or of style.
-- An-other time, walking to the top of a fresh mole-hill, I fell to my neck in the hole, through which that animal had cast up the earth, and coined some lie, not worth remembering, to excuse myself for spoiling my clothes.
-- The handsomest among these maids of honour, a pleasant, frolicsome girl of sixteen, would sometimes set me astride upon one of her nipples, with many other tricks, wherein the reader will excuse me for not being over particular.
-- But I was so much displeased, that I entreated Glumdalclitch to contrive some excuse for not seeing that young lady any more.
-- I stayed till sunset, but humbly desired his high-ness to excuse me for not accepting his invitation of lodging in the palace.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Do I excuse her for it?
-- 'Have you you'll excuse an old woman's curiosity have you seen the gentleman?'
-- 'No, Bitzer,' continued Mrs. Sparsit, 'say an individual, and I will hear you; say Mr. Thomas, and you must excuse me.'
-- 'I beg your pardon,' he said, turning and removing his hat; 'pray excuse me.'
-- 'Excuse my impertinent curiosity,' pursued the stranger, fluttering over Mrs. Sparsit's eyebrows, with a propitiatory air, 'but you know the family, and know the world.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My readers must excuse this brief and somewhat pedantic geological lecture.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Well, Lady Chatterley, somehow it will!I find... excuse me...
-- Now Connie would sometimes plead a headache as an excuse for going up to her room after dinner.
-- 'I do hope you'll excuse me,' she said.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'It's extraordinary to me if you'll excuse my freedom in saying so that you don't go straight to London,' said Mr Meagles, in the tone of a confidential adviser.
-- 'I beg you to excuse me.
-- Amy, my dear, put this dish on; Mr Clennam will excuse the primitive customs to which we are reduced here.
-- Girls, Mr Clennam will excuse any household business you may have together.
-- 'Excuse my mentioning ''The Department is accessible to the Public,' Mr Barnacle was always checked a little by that word of impertinent signification, 'if the Public approaches it according to the official forms; if the Public does not approach it according to the official forms, the Public has itself to blame.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She may tear it tonight, and that will be a good excuse for offering a decent one.'
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