admiration是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 钦佩; 赞美, 羡慕,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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The aunt was as tiresome as ever; more tiresome, because anxiety for her health was now added to admiration of her powers; and they had to listen to the description of exactly how little bread and butter she ate for breakfast, and how small a slice of mutton for dinner, as well as to see exhibi-tions of new caps and new workbags for her mother and herself; and Jane's offences rose again.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Boldwood's had begun to be a troublesome image a species of Daniel in her kingdom who persisted in kneeling eastward when reason and common sense said that he might just as well follow suit with the rest, and afford her the official glance of admiration which cost nothing at all.
-- "Never tell me that a young lady can live in a buzz of admiration without knowing something about it.
-- "I know you do not I know it perfectly," said Troy, with much hearty conviction on the exterior of his face: and altering the expression to moodiness; "when a dozen men are ready to speak tenderly to you, and give the admiration you deserve without adding the warning you need, it stands to reason that my poor rough-and-ready mixture of praise and blame cannot convey much pleasure.
-- I knew that what I said in admiration might be an opinion too often forced upon you to give any pleasure, but I certainly did think that the kindness of your nature might prevent you judging an uncontrolled tongue harshly which you have done and thinking badly of me and wounding me this morning, when I am working hard to save your hay."
-- However, we couldn't think of letting the day pass without a note of admiration of some sort.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- FATHER GORIOT BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated by Ellen Marriage To the great and illustrious Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, a token of admiration for his works and genius.
-- 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.
-- Perhaps there are people who know that they have nothing more to look for from those with whom they live; they have shown the emptiness of their hearts to their housemates, and in their secret selves they are conscious that they are severely judged, and that they deserve to be judged severely; but still they feel an unconquerable craving for praises that they do not hear, or they are consumed by a desire to appear to possess, in the eyes of a new audience, the qualities which they have not, hoping to win the admiration or affection of strangers at the risk of forfeiting it again some day.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He excites at once my admiration and my pity to an astonishing de-gree.
-- The peasant woman, perceiving that my mother fixed eyes of wonder and admiration on this lovely girl, eagerly communicated her history.
-- She busied herself with following the aerial creations of the poets; and in the majestic and wondrous scenes which surrounded our Swiss home the sublime shapes of the mountains, the changes of the sea- sons, tempest and calm, the silence of winter, and the life and turbulence of our Alpine summers she found ample scope for admiration and delight.
-- A mind of moderate capacity which closely pur-sues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in this, im-proved so rapidly that at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instru-ments, which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.
-- She nursed Madame Frankenstein, my aunt, in her last illness, with the greatest affection and care and afterwards attended her own mother during a tedious illness, in a manner that excited the admiration of all who knew her, after which she again lived in my uncle's house, where she was beloved by all the family.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And the valet, who had begun to attempt a brogue out of admiration for his newmaster, made requisite answer in a combination of Geechee and County Meath that would have puzzled anyone exceptthose two alone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In our already-mentioned freemasonry as fellow-sufferers, and in his good-natured companionship with me, it was our evening habit to compare the way we bit through our slices, by silently holding them up to each other's admiration now and then,--which stimulated us to new exertions.
-- Young as I was, I believe that I dated a new admiration of Joe from that night.
-- "To think," said Mr. Pumblechook, after snorting admiration at me for some moments, "that I should have been the humble instrument of leading up to this, is a proud reward."
-- It was not that I knew I could never bear to speak to him about her, that I knew I could never bear to hear him creak his boots at her, that I knew I could never bear to see him wash his hands of her; it was, that my admiration should be within a foot or two of him,--it was, that my feelings should be in the same place with him,--that, was the agonizing circumstance.
-- On Wemmick's return from working these mechanical appliances, I expressed the great admiration with which I regarded them, and he said, "Well, you know, they're both pleasant and useful to the Aged.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And your friend the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected, concerning the great charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said, that his excellency, who had the sole disposal of the em-peror's revenue, might easily provide against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently, decay, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of your carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more than half diminished; and immediately upon your death five or six thousand of his majesty's subjects might, in two or three days, cut your flesh from your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to pos-terity.
-- While we were at dinner, I made bold to ask the names of several things in their language, and those noble persons, by the assistance of their flappers, delighted to give me an-swers, hoping to raise my admiration of their great abilities if I could be brought to converse with them.
-- I discovered my admiration that I had not observed any of these illustrious persons at court; the black spot on the forehead being so remarkable a distinction, that I could not have easily overlooked it: and it was impossible that his 262 Gulliver's Travelsmajesty, a most judicious prince, should not provide him-self with a good number of such wise and able counsellors.
-- They gazed awhile in admiration at my strange uncouth dress; my coat made of skins, my wooden-soled shoes, and my furred stockings; whence, however, they concluded, I was not a na-tive of the place, who all go naked.
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