visible是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 可见的,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Anyway, though we are forty miles off, yet I tell you the Peak of Teneriffe is quite visible yonder above the horizon."
-- The rain fell in such torrents that the town was scarcely visible through it.
-- No one spoke much the first day, for the smoke of the DUNCAN was still visible on the horizon, and the pain of parting too keenly felt.
-- The peaks on the north and east had disappeared from view, and nothing was visible save the fantastic SILHOUETTE of some towering rocks here and there.
-- Not a cloud visible either above or below.
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:
-- Dr. Mortimer and Baskerville were still visible about two hundred yards ahead of us in the direction of Oxford Street.
-- 'It may be so placed as to be only visible from here.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gratified vanity was visible in the glances he cast upon the assembled company.
-- A shade of disgust was visible in her expression; she looked as though she were afraid of contamination in this place.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- While he was thus in two minds, and was drawing his mighty sword from its scab-bard, Minerva came down from heaven (for Juno had sent her in the love she bore to them both), and seized the son of Peleus by his yellow hair, visible to him alone, for of the others no man could see her.
-- Have you forgotten how you set Diomed son of Tydeus on to wound me, and yourself took visible spear and drove it into me to the hurt of my fair body?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For the man who stood there shouting some incoherent explanation, was a solid gesticulating figure up to the coat-collar of him, and then nothingness, no visible thing at all!
-- cried everyone, and there was a rush at the fluttering white shirt which was now all that was visible of the stranger.
-- Nothing visible for miles except the bosom of Nature.
-- Old Fletcher, whose conceptions of holiday-making were severe, was visible through the jasmine about his window or through the open door (whichever way you chose to look), poised delicately on a plank supported on two chairs, and whitewashing the ceiling of his front room.
-- Everywhere there is a sound of closing shutters and shoving bolts, and the only visible humanity is an occasional flitting eye under a raised eyebrow in the corner of a window pane.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your own pains drive you; so long as pain underlies your propositions about sin, so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less obscurely what an animal feels.
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:
-- Against this stern and unyielding morality, supported as it was by such visible policy, there was no appeal.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Certainly, nothing but some such de-creed unavoidable misery, which it was impossible for me to escape, could have pushed me forward against the calm reasonings and persuasions of my most retired thoughts, and against two such visible instructions as I had met with in my first attempt.
-- The first time he spoke to me after we were at Yarmouth, which was not till two or three days, for we were separated in the town to several quarters; I say, the first time he saw me, it appeared his tone was altered; and, looking very melan-choly, and shaking his head, he asked me how I did, and telling his father who I was, and how I had come this voy-age only for a trial, in order to go further abroad, his father, turning to me with a very grave and concerned tone 'Young man,' says he, 'you ought never to go to sea any more; you ought to take this for a plain and visible token that you are not to be a seafaring man.'
-- However, he afterwards talked very gravely to me, exhorting me to go back to my father, and not tempt Providence to my ruin, telling me I might see a visible hand of Heaven against me.
-- I cared not to drive a nail, or chop a stick of wood now, for fear the noise I might make should be heard: much less would I fire a gun for the same reason: and above all I was intolerably uneasy at making any fire, lest the smoke, which is visible at a great distance in the day, should betray me.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Brakes and signals were visible without.
-- Now that she had a visible means of support, this irritated her.
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