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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Strickland, clad only in a pareo, was standing with his back to the door, but he turned round when he heard the sound of boots.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No reflection of light, no sound from inhabited land, no roaring of the ocean could have reached them, through the obscurity, while suspended in those elevated zones.
-- They stopped to listen, but no sound arose above the roaring of the waves and the dashing of the surf.
-- Outside could be heard the howling of the wind and the monotonous sound of the surf breaking on the shore.
-- Meanwhile the night advanced, and it was perhaps two hours from morning, when Pencroft, then sound asleep, was vigorously shaken.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Over nobody had he such complete ascendance as Mrs Quilp herself a pretty little, mild-spoken, blue-eyed woman, who having allied herself in wedlock to the dwarf in one of those strange infatuations of which examples are by no means scarce, performed a sound practical penance for her folly, every day of her life.
-- He was speedily brought on his heels by the sound of his master's voice, and as soon as his head was in its right position, Mr Quilp, to speak expressively in the absence of a better verb, 'punched it' for him.
-- Daniel Quilp pulled his hat over his brows, climbed on to the desk (which had a flat top) and stretching his short length upon it went to sleep with ease of an old practitioner; intending, no doubt, to compensate himself for the deprivation of last night's rest, by a long and sound nap.
-- Sound it might have been, but long it was not, for he had not been asleep a quarter of an hour when the boy opened the door and thrust in his head, which was like a bundle of badly-picked oakum.
-- There was only Mrs Quilp at home, and she, little expecting the return of her lord, was just composing herself for a refreshing slumber when the sound of his footsteps roused her.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- asked the merchant of Nekhludoff, hearing a strange sound escaping the latter's lips.
-- a woman's voice was heard to say, and the rhapsody continued, then ceased, and the sound of a chair moved back was heard.
-- This temptation of the day before was similar to that of a man who, after a night's sound sleep, feels like taking his ease on the soft mattress for a while, although he knows that it is time to be up and away on an important affair.
-- The chief physician was passing at the time, and, hearing the sound of the breaking glas s, and seeing Maslova running out, all flushed, he angrily shouted to her: "Well, girl, if you begin to flirt here, I will send you back.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Again I remarked his lameness and the soft padding sound of his footfall, and standing up in my place, I saw his feet as he went out.
-- Most of it will sound like lying.
-- There it is now, a little travel-worn, truly; and one of the ivory bars is cracked, and a brass rail bent; but the rest of it's sound enough.
-- "There was the sound of a clap of thunder in my ears.
-- At once a quaintly pretty little figure in chequered purple and white followed my gesture, and then astonished me by imitating the sound of thunder.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This didn't sound like a remark that needed any answer, so Alice said nothing, but pulled away.
-- It didn't sound a comfortable plan, Alice thought, and for a few minutes she walked on in silence, puzzling over the idea, and every now and then stopping to help the poor Knight, who certainly was not a good rider.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I remember his breath hanging like smoke in his wake as he strode off, and the last sound I heard of him as he turned the big rock was a loud snort of indignation, as though his mind was still running upon Dr. Livesey.
-- When we were about half-way through, I suddenly put my hand upon her arm, for I had heard in the silent frosty air a sound that brought my heart into my mouth the tap-tapping of the blind man's stick upon the frozen road.
-- Nor was this all, for the sound of several footsteps running came already to our ears, and as we looked back in their direction, a light tossing to and fro and still rapidly advancing showed that one of the newcomers carried a lantern.
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