tire是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. (使) 疲倦, (使) 厌倦n. (=tyre) 轮胎, 车胎,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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He urged Thaouka to a gallop, and made a direct attack, knowing that if the first aim missed the NANDOU would soon tire out horse and rider by involving them in an inextricable labyrinth of windings.
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:
-- 'You never tire of the moor.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The felloes of the wheels were of gold, imperishable, and over these there was a tire of bronze, wondrous to be-hold.
-- Ulysses could not throw Ajax, nor Ajax him; Ulysses was too strong for him; but when the Achaeans began to tire of watching them, Ajax said to Ulysses, 'Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, you shall either lift me, or I you, and let Jove settle it be-tween us.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'At that speed!It would not tire a wounded cow.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "He's made a start.... You swing it too wide, you'll tire yourself out....
-- Ca ne tire pas a consequence.
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:
-- 'Let them burn their powder,' said the deliberate scout, while bullet after bullet whizzed by the place where he se-curely lay; 'there will be a fine gathering of lead when it is over, and I fancy the imps will tire of the sport afore these old stones cry out for mercy!Uncas, boy, you waste the ker-nels by overcharging; and a kicking rifle never carries a true bullet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When should I ever tire of her?
-- Hewas greyer, the lines in his face and forehead were deeper, and hehad every appearance of having toiled and wandered through allvarieties of weather; but he looked very strong, and like a manupheld by steadfastness of purpose, whom nothing could tire out.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "You are not useless; but I would rather not tire you longer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For, I had by that time come to myself so far as to consider that I could not go back to the inn and see Drummle there; that I could not bear to sit upon the coach and be spoken to; that I could do nothing half so good for myself as tire myself out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And however far off that may be, I will never tire of trying.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Luckily, there is very little ascent to tire me."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But you can tell me so much more about them than I can tell you, that why should I tire you with my accounts and descriptions?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but my become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength.
-- You I leave to enjoy your liberty till you tire of it, for only then will you find that there is something sweeter.
-- She had boys enough now, and did not tire of them, though they were not angels, by any means, and some of them caused both Professor and Professorin much trouble and anxiety.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After I had thus laid the scheme of my design, and in my imagination put it in practice, I continually made my tour every morning to the top of the hill, which was from my cas-tle, as I called it, about three miles or more, to see if I could observe any boats upon the sea, coming near the island, or standing over towards it; but I began to tire of this hard duty, after I had for two or three months constantly kept my watch, but came always back without any discovery; there having not, in all that time, been the least appearance, not only on or near the shore, but on the whole ocean, so far as my eye or glass could reach every way.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Upon streetlamps at the various corners she read names such as Madison, Monroe, La Salle, Clark, Dearborn, State, and still she went, her feet beginning to tire upon the broad stone flagging.
-- Her legs began to tire and she wanted to get up and stretch.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Oh, well, that's all right, because a dream does tire a body like everything sometimes.
-- But I knowed I could tire him out at that.
-- We didn't give it right up, but stayed with them as long as we could; because we allowed we'd tire them out or they'd got to tire us out, and they done it.
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