yield是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 生产; 生长; 让步; 投降; 屈服; n. 产量,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He seemed to yield to the justice of this supposition, in spite of himself.
-- He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- An hour or two hence, and the low compan-ions and low habits that I scorn but yield to, will render me less worth such tears as those, than any wretch who creeps along the streets.
-- Affected, and impressed with terror as they both were, by this spectacle of ruin, it was not a time to yield to such emotions.
-- Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But something drew her towards it, and she could yield to it or resist it at will.
-- Where the land with serf-labor and good management gave a yield of nine to one, on the half-crop system it yields three to one.
-- This did not interest Levin, but when he had finished, Levin went back to his first position, and, addressing Sviazhsky, and trying to draw him into expressing his serious opinion:- "That the standard of culture is falling, and that with our present relations to the peasants there is no possibility of famling on a rational system to yield a profit--that's perfectly true," said he.
-- Imagine, I ought to have said to him, that you have the same system as the old peasant has, that you have found means of making your laborers take an interest in the success of the work, and have found the happy mean in the way of improvements which they will admit, and you will, without exhausting the soil, get twice or three times the yield you got before.
-- And to do this, just as it was necessary to cook dinner, it was necessary to keep the mechanism of agriculture at Pokrovskoe going so as to yield an income.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Happily the temple walls were built of brick and wood, which could be penetrated with little difficulty; after one brick had been taken out, the rest would yield easily.
-- Shall we yield to force?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He went to the Ice House; he had a drink with a frightened clerk from Derbyshire; he regained the picture of Gottlieb's sunken, demanding eyes; and he swore that he would not yield to a compassion which in the end would make all compassion futile.
-- VII Martin closed his flat--their flat--with a cold swift fury, lest he yield to his misery in finding among Leora's possessions a thousand fragments which brought her back: the frock she had bought for Capitola McGurk's dinner, a petrified chocolate she had hidden away to munch illegally by night, a memorandum, "Get almonds for Sandy."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Iimagined it would be a kind of company to have the boys, and thebedroom where I used to tell the stories, so near me: although theboys would know nothing of my being there, and the bedroomwould yield me no shelter.
-- A miserableforeboding that she would yield to, and sustain herself by, thesame feeling in reference to any sacrifice for his sake, hadoppressed me ever since.
-- I entreated Agnes not toregard this as a thoughtless passion which could ever yield to anyother, or had the least resemblance to the boyish fancies that weused to joke about.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They met readily and smiling, but with a conscious-ness which at first allowed little to be said; and having all sat down again, there was for some time such a blank in the circle, that Emma began to doubt whether the wish now in-dulged, which she had long felt, of seeing Frank Churchill once more, and of seeing him with Jane, would yield its proportion of pleasure.
-- She would be respectable and happy; and Emma admitted her to be the luckiest crea-ture in the world, to have created so steady and persevering an affection in such a man; or, if not quite the luckiest, to yield only to herself.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A mantle of ivy conceals the bricks and attracts the eyes of passers-by to an effect which is picturesque in Paris, for each of the walls is covered with trellised vines that yield a scanty dusty crop of fruit, and furnish besides a subject of conversation for Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Everything was made to yield to her wishes and her convenience.
-- With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her.
-- It was a most beautiful sea-son; never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage, but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature.
-- I fear that he will become an idler unless we yield the point and permit him to enter on the profession which he has se-lected.
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