young是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 年轻的, 幼小的; 没经验的n. 青年人,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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A rather hard couch, formed of a few corn sacks thrown carelessly down, covered half the floor of this little habitation, and here the young man stretched himself along, loosened his woollen cravat, and closed his eyes.
-- Her companion was apparently young and graceful; he could form no decided opinion upon her looks, her position being almost beneath his eye, so that he saw her in a bird's-eye view, as Milton's Satan first saw Paradise.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her house (known in the neighborhood as the _Maison Vauquer_) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest.
-- In 1819, however, the time when this drama opens, there was an almost penniless young girl among Mme.
-- The subject between the two windows is the banquet given by Calypso to the son of Ulysses, displayed thereon for the admiration of the boarders, and has furnished jokes these forty years to the young men who show themselves superior to their position by making fun of the dinners to which poverty condemns them.
-- It might be possible to describe it if some one should discover a process by which to distil from the atmosphere all the nauseating elements with which it is charged by the 莽卢卢 3 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 catarrhal exhalations of every individual lodger, young or old.
-- At that time one of the rooms was tenanted by a law student, a young man from the neighborhood of Angouleme, one of a large family who pinched and starved themselves to spare twelve hundred francs a year for him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some years ago he loved a young Russian lady of moderate fortune, and having amassed a consider-able sum in prize-money, the father of the girl consented to the match.
-- He had already bought a farm with his money, on which he had designed to pass the remainder of his life; but he be-stowed the whole on his rival, together with the remains of his prize-money to purchase stock, and then himself solic-ited the young woman's father to consent to her marriage with her lover.
-- I remember the first time I became capable of observing outward ob-jects with any kind of pleasure, I perceived that the fallen leaves had disappeared and that the young buds were shoot-ing forth from the trees that shaded my window.
-- The pretty Miss Mansfield has already received the congratu-latory visits on her approaching marriage with a young Englishman, John Melbourne, Esq.
-- Frankenstein is modest, an excellent quality in a young man.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They were all healthy, thoughtless young animals, sleek, graceful, high-spirited, the boys asmettlesome as the horses they rode, mettlesome and dangerous but, withal, sweet-tempered to those who knew how tohandle them.
-- These latter young men were as anxious to fight the Yankees, should war come, as were their richer neighbors;but the delicate question of money arose.
-- He was as proficient as any of the other young men in the usual County diversions, hunting,gambling, dancing and politics, and was the best rider of them all; but he differed from all the rest in that thesepleasant activities were not the end and aim of life to him.
-- That he would propose some day she had never doubted, for she was too young and too spoiledever to have known defeat.
-- He was sixty years old and his crisp curly hair was silver-white, but his shrewd face was unlined and his hardlittle blue eyes were young with the unworried youthfulness of one who has never taxed his brain with problems moreabstract than how many cards to draw in a poker game.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "You young dog," said the man, licking his lips, "what fat cheeks you ha' got."
-- There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel.
-- That young man hears the words I speak.
-- That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.
-- It is in wain for a boy to attempt to hide himself from that young man.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first would not let him, for fear some harm should come to him: however, at last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch.
-- Then the fox stretched out his tail again, and the young man sat himself down, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.
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