two是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为num. 二, 两个n. 两个(人或物),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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This lunatic, in letting Scrooge's nephew out, had let two other people in.
-- It certainly was; for they had been two kindred spirits.
-- Old fire-guards, old shoes, two fish-baskets, washing-stand on three legs, and a poker.
-- His body was transparent; so that Scrooge, observing him, and looking through his waistcoat, could see the two but-tons on his coat behind.
-- When they were within two paces of each other, Marley's Ghost held up its hand, warning him to come no nearer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens (1859)Download free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook.
-- Book the First Recalled to Life A tale of two citiesI The Period t was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was Ithe age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had ev-erything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way in short, the period was so far like the present peri-od, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
-- It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands A tale of two citiesadjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revo-lution.
-- Environed by them, while the Woodman and the Farmer worked unheeded, those two of the large jaws, and those other two of the plain and the fair faces, trod with stir enough, and carried their divine rights with a high hand.
-- A tale of two citiesII The Mail t was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in INovember, before the first of the persons with whom this history has business.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One day, two rogues, calling themselves weavers, made their appearance.
-- So the two pretended weavers set up two looms, and affected to work very busily, though in reality they did nothing at all.
-- Accompanied by a select number of officers of the court, among whom were the two honest men who had already admired the cloth, he went to the crafty impostors, who, as soon as they were aware of the Emperor's approach, went on working more diligently than ever; although they still did not pass a single thread through the looms.
-- said the two of-ficers of the crown, already mentioned.
-- And he smiled most graciously, and looked closely at the empty looms; for on no account would he say that he could not see what two of the officers of his court had praised so much.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He could not at this date repent of the fact that he, a handsome, susceptible man of thirty-four, was not in love with his wife, the mother of five living and two dead children, and only a year younger than himself.
-- When he had finished his letters, Stepan Arkadyevitch moved the office-papers close to him, rapidly looked through two pieces of business, made a few notes with a big pencil, and pushing away the papers, turned to his coffee.
-- Two childish voices (Stepan Arkadyevitch recognized the voices of Grisha, his youngest boy, and Tanya, his eldest girl) were heard outside the door.
-- He squared his chest, took out a cigarette, took two whiffs at it, flung it into a mother-of-pearl ashtray, and with rapid steps walked through the drawing room, and opened the other door into his wife's bedroom.
-- Till two o'clock the sitting would go on without a break, and at two o'clock there would be an interval and luncheon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was no study, nor were there books, which would have been quite useless to Mr. Fogg; for at the Reform two libraries, one of general literature and the other of law and politics, were at his service.
-- As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent.
-- "I will bet twenty thousand pounds against anyone who wishes that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less; in nineteen hundred and twenty hours, or a hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred minutes.
-- "We'll have no trunks; only a carpet-bag, with two shirts and three pairs of stockings for me, and the same for you.
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