winter是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 冬季, 冬天,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《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She is in Rome now; where probably we shall know more of her, as you decide to winter there.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nobody spoke for a minute; then Meg said in an altered tone, 'You know the reason Mother proposed not having any presents this Christmas was because it is going to be a hard winter for everyone; and she thinks we ought not to spend money for pleasure, when our men are suffering so in the army.
-- and then the rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned, and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and seri-ous faces with a Christmas greeting.
-- 'We spent last winter there.'
-- But she begged so hard, and Sallie had promised to take good care of her, and a little pleasure seemed so delightful after a winter of irksome work that the mother yielded, and the daughter went to take her first taste of fashionable life.
-- 'I've been routed up early all winter and had to spend my days working for other people, so now I'm going to rest and revel to my heart's content.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through. It's the Black Sea in a midnight gale. It's the unnatural combat of the four primal elements. It's a blasted heath. It's a Hyperborean winter scene. It's the breaking-up of the icebound stream of Time.
-- At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February's snow.
-- says I, "but that's a rather cold and clammy reception in the winter time, ain't it, Mrs.
-- Spite of this frigid winter night in the boisterous Atlantic, spite of my wet feet and wetter jacket, there was yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store; and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
-- And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'A clean shirt,' thought Oliver, 'is a very comfortable thing; and so are two pairs of darned stockings; and so is a penny; but they are small helps to a sixty -five miles' walk in winter time.'
-- It must come, some time or another, and why not in the winter time when you don't want to go out a-walking so much; eh, Fagin?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The fami-lies who had been in town for the winter came back again, and summer finery and summer engagements arose.
-- 'And then when you go away, you may leave one or two of my sisters behind you; and I dare say I shall get husbands for them before the winter is over.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The 3rd of August, I found the grapes I had hung up perfectly dried, and, indeed, were excellent good raisins of the sun; so I began to take them down from the trees, and it was very happy that I did so, for the rains which followed would have spoiled them, and I had lost the best part of my winter food; for I had above two hundred large bunches of them.
-- In this place also I had my grapes growing, which I prin-cipally depended on for my winter store of raisins, and which I never failed to preserve very carefully, as the best and most agreeable dainty of my whole diet; and indeed they were not only agreeable, but medicinal, wholesome, nourishing, and refreshing to the last degree.
-- It was now the month of December, as I said above, in my twenty- third year; and this, being the southern solstice (for winter I cannot call it), was the particular time of my harvest, and required me to be pretty much abroad in the fields, when, going out early in the morning, even before it was thorough daylight, I was surprised with seeing a light of some fire upon the shore, at a distance from me of about two miles, toward that part of the island where I had ob-served some savages had been, as before, and not on the other side; but, to my great affliction, it was on my side of the island.
-- To mend the matter, when we came to Pampeluna it continued snow-ing with so much violence and so long, that the people said winter was come before its time; and the roads, which were difficult before, were now quite impassable; for, in a word, the snow lay in some places too thick for us to travel, and being not hard frozen, as is the case in the northern coun-tries, there was no going without being in danger of being buried alive every step.
-- We stayed no less than twenty days at Pampeluna; when (seeing the winter coming on, and no likelihood of its being better, for it was the severest win-ter all over Europe that had been known in the memory of man) I proposed that we should go away to Fontarabia, and there take shipping for Bordeaux, which was a very little voyage.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was a blessing to all the juvenile part of the neighbourhood, for in summer he was for ever forming parties to eat cold ham and chicken out of doors, and in winter his private balls were numerous enough for any young lady who was not suffering under the unsatiable appetite of fifteen.
-- Since the death of her husband, who had traded with success in a less elegant part of the town, she had resided every winter in a house in one of the streets near Portman Square.
-- Lord bless me!how do you think I can live poking by myself, I who have been always used till this winter to have Charlotte with me.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What would not Minnie say!Ah, the long winter in Chicago--the lights, the crowd, the amusement!This was a great, pleasing metropolis after all.
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