overcome是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 战胜, 克服; (感情等) 压倒, 使受不了,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《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Well," cried I, overcome at last, "let us go and see.
-- We shall overcome these, and many other difficulties.
-- Hitherto our courage and determination had overcome all difficulties.
-- Facts overcome all arguments.
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:
-- And this time the sharp ecstasy of her own passion did not overcome her; she lay with her ends inert on his striving body, and do what she might, her spirit seemed to look on from the top of her head, and the butting of his haunches seemed ridiculous to her, and the sort of anxiety of his pe-nis to come to its little evacuating crisis seemed farcical.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Dear dear,' said Flora, 'only to think of the changes at home Arthur cannot overcome it, and seems so natural, Mr Clennam far more proper since you became familiar with the Chinese customs and language which I am persuaded you speak like a Native if not better for you were always quick and clever though immensely difficult no doubt, I am sure the tea chests alone would kill me if I tried, such changes Arthur I am doing it again, seems so natural, most improper as no one could have believed, who could have ever imagined Mrs Finching when I can't imagine it myself!'
-- 'It is only that I feel a little overcome by your kindness, and by Mr Clennam's kindness in confiding me to one he has known and loved so long.'
-- The ceremony was effective up to a certain point, and would have been wholly so throughout, if Miss Rugg, as she raised her glass to her lips in completion of it, had not happened to look at Young John; when she was again so overcome by the contemptible comicality of his disinterestedness as to splutter some ambrosial drops of rum and water around, and withdraw in confusion.
-- Flora's tenderness was quite overcome by this, and she launched out among the cups and saucers into a wonderful flow of tears and speech.
-- I have never entered on it with my friends here; and I cannot overcome the delicacy, Mr Dorrit, with which I have always regarded it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No persuasions or enticements could overcome her fear, till, the fact coming to Mr. Laurence's ear in some mysterious way, he set about mending matters.
-- 'You do know her, and she helps you better than any-one else could,' answered Laurie, looking at her with such mischievous meaning in his merry black eyes that Beth sud-denly turned very red, and hid her face in the sofa cushion, quite overcome by such an unexpected discovery.
-- My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning and may be many, but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one.
-- At the conclusion of the ceremonies, Beth retired to her room, overcome with emotion and lobster, but there was no place of repose, for the beds were not made, and she found her grief much assuaged by beating up the pillows and put-ting things in order.
-- and Meg hid her face again, overcome with shame.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A very brief exercise of Mr. Sike's art, sufficed to overcome the fastening of the lattice; and it soon stood wide open also.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way.
-- The possibility of Mr. Collins's fancying herself in love with her friend had once occurred to Elizabeth within the last day or two; but that Charlotte could encourage him seemed almost as far from possibility as she could encour-age him herself, and her astonishment was consequently so great as to overcome at first the bounds of decorum, and she could not help crying out: 'Engaged to Mr. Collins!My dear Charlotte impossi-ble!'
-- While she spoke, an involuntary glance showed her Darcy, with a heightened complexion, earnestly looking at her, and his sister overcome with confusion, and unable to lift up her eyes.
-- But it was a hope shortly checked by other con-siderations, and she soon felt that even her vanity was insufficient, when required to depend on his affection for her for a woman who had already refused him as able to overcome a sentiment so natural as abhorrence against relationship with Wickham.
-- She could not determine how her mother would take it; some-times doubting whether all his wealth and grandeur would be enough to overcome her abhorrence of the man.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They had begun to fail him before he entered the house, and they were quite overcome by the captivating manners of Mrs. Dashwood.
-- CHAPTER 26Elinor could not find herself in the carriage with Mrs. Jennings, and beginning a journey to London under her protection, and as her guest, without wondering at her own situation, so short had their acquaintance with that lady been, so wholly unsuited were they in age and disposition, and so many had been her objections against such a measure only a few days before!But these objections had all, with that happy ardour of youth which Marianne and her mother equally shared, been overcome or overlooked; and Elinor, in spite of every occasional doubt of Willoughby's constancy, could not witness the rapture of delightful expectation which filled the whole soul and beamed in the eyes of Marianne, without feeling how blank was her own prospect, how cheerless her own state of mind in the comparison, and how gladly she would engage in the solicitude of Marianne's situation to have the same animating object in view, the same possibility of hope.
-- Absence might have weakened his regard, and convenience might have determined him to overcome it, but that such a regard had formerly existed she could not bring herself to doubt.
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