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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The operation was extremely simple, and if it did not yield absolutely perfect results, they were at least very useful.
-- The bridge would render easy the transport of the balloon case, which would furnish them with linen, and the inhabitants of the enclosure would yield wool which would supply them with winter clothes.
-- One day, it was some specimens of the chicory tribe, the seeds of which by pressure yield an excellent oil; another, it was some common sorrel, whose antiscorbutic qualities were not to be despised; then, some of those precious tubers, which have at all times been cultivated in South America, potatoes, of which more than two hundred species are now known.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That the conviction was an unwelcome one, and that he was by no means willing to yield to it, was apparent from his reluctance to quit the spot; from the tardy steps with which he often left it, still looking over his shoulder at the same window; and from the precipitation with which he as often returned, when a fancied noise or the changing and imperfect light induced him to suppose it had been softly raised.
-- But Kit was innocent; and knowing this, and feeling that his best friends deemed him guilty that Mr and Mrs Garland would look upon him as a monster of ingratitude that Barbara would associate him with all that was bad and criminal that the pony would consider himself forsaken and that even his own mother might perhaps yield to the strong appearances against him, and believe him to be the wretch he seemed knowing and feeling all this, he experienced, at first, an agony of mind which no words can describe, and walked up and down the little cell in which he was locked up for the night, almost beside himself with grief.
-- I yield to you from necessity too; from policy besides; and because of feelings that have been a pretty long time working within me.
-- It toyed and sported with its ghastly freight, now bruising it against the slimy piles, now hiding it in mud or long rank grass, now dragging it heavily over rough stones and gravel, now feigning to yield it to its own element, and in the same action luring it away, until, tired of the ugly plaything, it flung it on a swamp a dismal place where pirates had swung in chains through many a wintry night and left it there to bleach.
-- He had entertained a fondness for such matters from a boy, and the tastes he had cultivated were now to yield him an anxious and precarious subsistence.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He would not yield to the feeling of repentance which spoke within him.
-- "We must not yield to our personal impressions."
-- She was sorry that she had missed the opportunity of telling him again that she knew him, and would not yield to him; that she would not allow him to take advantage of her spiritually as he had done corporeally; that she would not allow him to make her the subject of his magnanimity.
-- But, being situated as I am now, I cannot permit myself to disobey one iota of the law, for the very reason that I, too, am no more than a man, and am liable to yield to pity.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Just so; but they will only yield two days' supply of air.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The women made way for them, but barely sufficient, as if grudging to yield ground.
-- She was reluctant to yield there, where he wanted her, to yield as it were her very identity.
-- Yield knave, or die.'"
-- He remembered also the beautiful face of one whom he had loved, and who had died still having the faith to yield to the mystery.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I bowed and returned the pledge; beginning to perceive that it would be foolish to sit sulking for the misbehaviour of a pack of curs; besides, I felt loth to yield the fellow further amusement at my expense; since his humour took that turn.
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