of是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为prep. …的; 在…之中; 用…制的; 关于…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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The press and the public were kind enough to welcome the fanciful plan, and willingly joined me in the anachronism of imagining a Wessex population living under Queen Victoria; a modern Wessex of railways, the penny post, mowing and reaping machines, union workhouses, lucifer matches, labourers who could read and write, and National school children.
-- But I believe I am correct in stating that, until the existence of this contemporaneous Wessex was announced in the present story, in 1874, it had never been heard of, and that the expression, "a Wessex peasant," or "a Wessex custom," would theretofore have been taken to refer to nothing later in date than the Norman Conquest.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- FATHER GORIOT BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated by Ellen Marriage To the great and illustrious Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, a token of admiration for his works and genius.
-- Her house (known in the neighborhood as the _Maison Vauquer_) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest.
-- That word drama has been somewhat discredited of late; it has been overworked and twisted to strange uses in these days of dolorous literature; but it must do service again here, not because this story is dramatic in the 莽卢卢 1 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 restricted sense of the word, but because some tears may perhaps be shed _intra et extra muros_ before it is over.
-- Will any one without the walls of Paris understand it?
-- The only audience who could appreciate the results of close observation, the careful reproduction of minute detail and local color, are dwellers between the heights of Montrouge and Montmartre, in a vale of crumbling stucco watered by streams of black mud, a vale of sorrows which are real and joys too often hollow; but this audience is so accustomed to terrible sensations, that only some unimaginable and well-neigh impossible woe could produce any lasting impression there.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- FrankensteinBy Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDownload free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook.
-- Letter 1To Mrs. Saville, England St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17 You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regard-ed with such evil forebodings.
-- I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.
-- I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight.
-- This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gone with the wind Margaret Mitchell The greatest love story of our times, the story of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler...Margaret Mitchell's monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of our time, and inspired a sequel that became the fastest selling novel of the century.
-- It is one of the most popular books ever written ; more than 28 million copies of the book... Part One CHAPTER I SCARLETT O'HARA was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarletontwins were.
-- In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of Frenchdescent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father.
-- But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw.
-- Hereyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- GREAT EXPECTATIONSChapter IMy father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
-- I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister,--Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith.
-- As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.
-- The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair.
-- From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Grimms' Fairy TalesBy The Brothers GrimmDownload free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook.
-- These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone.
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