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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Oh, excuse me an instant!It is surely Cyclopides.'
-- I had been casting round for some excuse by which I could get away from his gossip, but now I began to wish to hear more of it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Excuse me,' said the red-nosed man to the young fellow with the bundle, rather suddenly; 'whom have I the honour to be talking to?'
-- 'You must excuse my asking, you know.
-- Excuse me, prince, but we had better make this matter clear, once for all.
-- Excuse my questioning you, but ' 'Oh, my dear sir, I esteem and understand your kindness in putting the question.
-- Excuse me again ' 'Oh, don't apologize.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The visitor remained in the parlour until four o'clock, without giving the ghost of an excuse for an intrusion.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The only thing that could excuse vivisection to me would be some application ' 'Precisely,' said he.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After that inspection the cubs are free to run where they please, and until they have killed their first buck no excuse is accepted if a grown wolf of the Pack kills one of them.
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:
-- 'I know not whom you call 'The Nimble Deer',' said Dun-can gladly profiting by any excuse to create delay.
-- Will she find an excuse for the neglect of the knight in the duty of a soldier?'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults.
-- My only excuse is that the impression they made on me was no other.
-- It would be an excuse to be rid of him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You must excuse me!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But still he is not quite a what one calls a handsome man, nor quite a young man neither, which might be a little excuse for him if anything could be; whereas his wife is young, and is good-looking, and is a woman which is the greatest thing after all.'
-- I shall remember it,' he had no excuse for dwelling on the subject any further, and so took a friendly leave with many expressions of good-will and many compliments to his friend on his looking so remarkably well; and went below stairs to report progress to Mr Brass.
-- Excuse me, but you do seem a little tired, and unless you're very anxious to get on ''Yes, yes, we are,' returned the old man fretfully.
-- 'Know them!But you're young and inexperienced, and that's your excuse for asking sich a question.
-- You will excuse my wearing my hat, but the palace is damp, and the marble floor is if I may be allowed the expression sloppy.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Please take a seat, but you must excuse me.
-- By the tone of his short but strong speech, he seemed to excuse himself, to insist that the honorable Senators with their power of penetration and judicial wisdom saw and understood better than he, but that he was speaking only because his duties demanded it.
-- Excuse my receiving you in a morning gown; it is better than not receiving at all," he said, covering his stout, wrinkled neck with the collar of his gown.
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