irregular是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 不规则的; 不整齐的,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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His gray clothes and jerky, zigzag, irregular progress made him not unlike some huge moth himself.
-- On its jagged face was spread-eagled some dark, irregular object.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His feet, save for socks of irregular open-work, were bare, his big toes were broad, and pricked like the ears of a watchful dog.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some way out, the wash upon an irregular band of reef shone with a pallid light of its own.
-- Moreau, whip in hand, marshalled us all into an irregular line, and we ad-vanced now slowly, shouting to one another as we advanced and tightening the cordon about our victim.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They were part of a circle of trees that grew round an irregular space of some three or four acres, and in all that space, as Little Toomai could see, the ground had been trampled down as hard as a brick floor.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Uncas moved with a slow and dignified tread toward the post, which he immediately commenced encircling with a measured step, not unlike an ancient dance, rais-ing his voice, at the same time, in the wild and irregular chant of his war song.
-- The brook was irregular in its width, sometimes shooting through narrow fissures in the rocks, and at others spread-ing over acres of bottom land, forming little areas that might be termed ponds.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On the left, above the promontory, this irregular and jagged cliff descended by a long slope of conglomerated rocks till it mingled with the ground of the southern point.
-- There was no cliff, and the shore offered no resistance to the ocean but a chain of irregular hillocks.
-- If Cyrus Harding was not mistaken in his calculation, the island had almost the extent of Malta or Zante, in the Mediterranean, but it was at the same time much more irregular and less rich in capes, promontories, points, bays, or creeks.
-- The nests of the rock pigeons which fluttered at its summit were only, in reality, holes bored at the very top, and on the irregular edge of the granite.
-- Here began the irregular coast, covered with lines of rocks and sandbanks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The village street if street that could be called which was an irregular cluster of poor cottages of many heights and ages, some with their fronts, some with their backs, and some with gable ends towards the road, with here and there a signpost, or a shed encroaching on the path was close at hand.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The speed of the Nautilus was considerably abated, and with irregular course she sometimes swam in the bosom of the waters, sometimes floated on their surface.
-- As to the first sub-class, it gives several specimens of that singular looking fish appropriately called a 'seafrog,' with large head, sometimes pierced with holes, sometimes swollen with protuberances, bristling with spikes, and covered with tubercles; it has irregular and hideous horns; its body and tail are covered with callosities; its sting makes a dangerous wound; it is both repugnant and horrible to look at."
-- Those adhering to the shell of the oyster are more irregular in shape, and are sold by weight.
-- said Conseil, who, posted at the window, was examining again the irregular windings of the cliff.
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:
-- Then in a sudden motion, she lifted her arms and rushed sheer upon the long-horned bullocks, in shuddering irregular runs, pausing for a second and looking at them, then lifting her hands and running forward with a flash, till they ceased pawing the ground, and gave way, snorting with terror, lifting their heads from the ground and flinging themselves away, galloping off into the evening, becoming tiny in the distance, and still not stopping.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I guessed, however, by his irregular and intercepted breathing, that he struggled to vanquish an excess of violent emotion.
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