sound是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 声音v. 发声, 响a. 健全的, 完好的; 正当的,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When it was midnight, and the giant thought that the little tailor was lying in a sound sleep, he got up, took a great iron bar, cut through the bed with one blow, and thought he had finished off the grasshopper for good.
-- 'Look about on the ground,' answered he, 'and listen where the sound comes from.'
-- said he; 'I am sound in health and rich in purse, what should I care for?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He spoke often to me; but the sound of his voice pierced my ears like that of a water-mill, yet his words were articulate enough.
-- The dwarf, at my entreaty, had no other punishment than a sound whipping.
-- It was drawn by an unskilful surgeon, in a mistake, from one of Glumdalclitch's men, who was afflicted with the tooth-ache, but it was as sound as any in his head.
-- At length one of them called out in a clear, polite, smooth dialect, not unlike in sound to the Italian: and therefore I returned an answer in that language, hoping at least that the cadence might be more agreeable to his ears.
-- 'In the trial of persons accused for crimes against the state, the method is much more short and commendable: the judge first sends to sound the disposition of those in power, after which he can easily hang or save a criminal, strictly preserving all due forms of law.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had reached the neutral ground upon the outskirts of the town, which was neither town nor country, and yet was either spoiled, when his ears were invaded by the sound of music.
-- It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.
-- The latter part of this speech was addressed to Mr. Gradgrind, who received it with a grave inclination of his head, and then remarked:'The only observation I will make to you, Jupe, in the way of influencing your decision, is, that it is highly desirable to have a sound practical education, and that even your father himself (from what I understand) appears, on your behalf, to have known and felt that much.'
-- The wretched ignorance with which Jupe clung to this consolation, rejecting the superior comfort of knowing, on a sound arithmetical basis, that her father was an unnatural vagabond, filled Mr. Gradgrind with pity.
-- Mr. Gradgrind usually improved these occasions by remarking, when she was gone, that if Jupe had been properly trained from an early age she would have remonstrated to herself on sound principles the baselessness of these fantastic hopes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Sund, or Sound as we call it, could be discovered beyond the point of Elsinore, crowded with white sails, which, at that distance looked like the wings of seagulls; while to the east could be made out the far-off coast of Sweden.
-- It is now the residence of the keeper of the Strait of the Sound, and through that Sound more than fifteen thousand vessels of all nations pass every year.
-- The very sound of such a word caused a feeling of repulsion.
-- The final sound was sooner heard.
-- After this little bit of astronomical recreation, I dropped into a sound sleep.
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:
-- Clifford was a coming man; and it was remarkable what a sound publicity instinct he had.
-- He was a curious and very gentle lover, very gentle with the woman, trembling uncontrollably, and yet at the same time detached, aware, aware of every sound outside.
-- You've got the life of the mind sound and intact.
-- Clifford was too used to the sound to notice.
-- Then his voice dropped again into the broad sound of the vernacular: 'Good mornin' to your Ladyship!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sound of voices succeeded, and the tread of feet.
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