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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "On the same line," resumed the young captain, "there is the syllable GLAS and if we add that to the GOW we found in the English paper, we get the whole word GLASGOW at once.
-- A carriage and post-horses waited there, in readiness to convey Lady Helena and Major McNabbs to Malcolm Castle, and Lord Glenarvan bade adieu to his young wife, and jumped into the express train for Glasgow.
-- Miss Helena did not belong to a noble family, but she was Scotch, and that was better than all nobility in the eyes of Lord Glenarvan; and she was, moreover, a charming, high-souled, religious young woman.
-- In the evening, when she was sitting alone in her room, Mr. Halbert, the house steward, came in and asked if she would see a young girl and boy that wanted to speak to Lord Glenarvan.
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:
-- So your grave, middle-aged family prac-titioner vanishes into thin air, my dear Watson, and there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favourite dog, which I should describe roughly as being larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff.'
-- But the young maiden, being discreet and of good repute, would ever avoid him, for she feared his evil name.
-- The young man when last heard of was in America, and inquiries are being instituted with a view to informing him of his good fortune.'
-- On the death of Sir Charles we inquired for this young gentleman and found that he had been farming in Canada.
-- But surely, if your supernatural theory be cor-rect, it could work the young man evil in London as easily as in Devonshire.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Both were young fellows, both were rather poorly dressed, both had remarkable faces, and both were evidently anxious to start a conversation.
-- One of them was a young fellow of about twenty-seven, not tall, with black curling hair, and small, grey, fiery eyes.
-- The wearer of this cloak was a young fellow, also of about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, slightly above the middle height, very fair, with a thin, pointed and very light coloured beard; his eyes were large and blue, and had an in-tent look about them, yet that heavy expression which some people affirm to be a peculiarity.
-- The black-haired young fellow whistled, and then laughed.
-- The readiness of the fair-haired young man in the cloak to answer all his opposite neighbour's questions was surprising.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They cut out the thigh-bones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them, and then Chryses laid them on the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with five-pronged spits in their hands.
-- Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices; but when the sun went down, and it came on dark, they laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship, and when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared they again set sail for the host of the Achaeans.
-- or is it some young girl to hide and lie with?
-- Now there was a brood of young sparrows, quite small, upon the topmost bough, peeping out from under the leaves, eight in all, and their mother that hatched them made nine.
-- From these there came fifty ships, and in each there were a hundred and twenty young men of the Boeotians.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They drew aside as he passed down the village, and when he had gone by, young humourists would up with coat-collars and down with hat-brims, and go pacing nervously after him in imitation of his occult bearing.
-- Mrs. Huxter came over; some gay young fellows resplendent in black ready-made jackets and piqu脙漏 paper ties for it was Whit Monday joined the group with confused interrogations.
-- Young Archie Harker distinguished himself by going up the yard and trying to peep under the window-blinds.
-- and so forth, and a young fellow, a stranger in the place whose name did not come to light, rushed in at once, caught something, missed his hold, and fell over the constable's prostrate body.
-- Dr. Kemp was a tall and slender young man, with flaxen hair and a moustache almost white, and the work he was upon would earn him, he hoped, the fellowship of the Royal Society, so highly did he think of it.
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