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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- During the twelvemonth preceding this time he had been enabled by sustained efforts of industry and chronic good spirits to lease the small sheep-farm of which Norcombe Hill was a portion, and stock it with two hundred sheep.
-- The house was ventilated by two round holes, like the lights of a ship's cabin, with wood slides.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This position is sufficient to account for the silence prevalent in the streets shut in between the dome of the Pantheon and the dome of the Val-de-Grace, two conspicuous public buildings which give a yellowish tone to the landscape and darken the whole district that lies beneath the shadow of their leaden-hued cupolas.
-- At the side of the house there are but two windows on each floor, and the lowest of all are adorned with a heavy iron grating.
-- Access is given by a French window to the first room on the ground floor, a sitting-room which looks out upon the street through the two barred windows already mentioned.
-- 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.
-- These two ladies paid eighteen hundred francs a year.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One or two stiff gales and the springing of a leak are accidents which experienced navigators scarce-ly remember to record, and I shall be well content if nothing worse happen to us during our voyage.
-- About two o'clock the mist cleared away, and we beheld, stretched out in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice, which seemed to have no end.
-- About two hours after this occurrence we heard the ground sea, and before night the ice broke and freed our ship.
-- Two days passed in this manner before he was able to speak, and I often feared that his sufferings had deprived him of understanding.
-- Two years after this event Caroline became his wife.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nineteen years old, six feet two inches tall, long of bone and hard of muscle, with sunburned faces anddeep auburn hair, their eyes merry and arrogant, their bodies clothed in identical blue coats and mustard-coloredbreeches, they were as much alike as two bolls of cotton.
-- They hadjust been expelled from the University of Georgia, the fourth university that had thrown them out in two years; andtheir older brothers, Tom and Boyd, had come home with them, because they refused to remain at an institution wherethe twins were not welcome.
-- "I know you two don't care about being expelled, or Tom either," she said.
-- He's kind ofset on getting an education, and you two have pulled him out of the University of Virginia and Alabama and SouthCarolina and now Georgia.
-- "What did your mother say about you two being expelled again?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On the edge of the river I could faintly make out the only two black things in all the prospect that seemed to be standing upright; one of these was the beacon by which the sailors steered,--like an unhooped cask upon a pole,--an ugly thing when you were near it; the other, a gibbet, with some chains hanging to it which had once held a pirate.
-- She was tall and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron, fastened over her figure behind with two loops, and having a square impregnable bib in front, that was stuck full of pins and needles.
-- Then, she gave the knife a final smart wipe on the edge of the plaster, and then sawed a very thick round off the loaf: which she finally, before separating from the loaf, hewed into two halves, of which Joe got one, and I the other.
-- By this time, my sister was quite desperate, so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him, while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on.
-- "You know, Pip," said Joe, solemnly, with his last bite in his cheek, and speaking in a confidential voice, as if we two were quite alone, "you and me is always friends, and I'd be the last to tell upon you, any time.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You will reach a vil-lage in the evening; and when you get there, you will see two inns opposite to each other, one of which is very pleas-ant and beautiful to look at: go not in there, but rest for the night in the other, though it may appear to you to be very poor and mean.'
-- Then he went his way, and in the evening came to the village where the two inns were; and in one of these were people singing, and dancing, and feasting; but the other looked very dirty, and poor.
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