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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The gar-dener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o'clock he fell asleep, and in the morning another of the apples was missing.
-- As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener's son jumped up and shot an arrow at it.
-- Everyone agreed that it was worth more than all the wealth of the kingdom: but the king said, 'One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gulliver's TravelsBy Jonathan SwiftDownload free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook.
-- The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my an-cient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother's side.
-- About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small pur-chase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
-- Although Mr. Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at Banbury in that county, several tombs and monuments of the Gullivers.
-- Before he quitted Redriff, he left the custody of the fol-lowing papers in my hands, with the liberty to dispose of them as I should think fit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them.
-- The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve.
-- The emphasis was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall.
-- The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside.
-- The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH By Jules Verne TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 MY UNCLE MAKES A GREAT DISCOVERY CHAPTER 2 THE MYSTERIOUS PARCHMENT CHAPTER 3 AN ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY CHAPTER 4 WE START ON THE JOURNEY CHAPTER 5 FIRST LESSONS IN CLIMBING CHAPTER 6 OUR VOYAGE TO ICELAND CHAPTER 7 CONVERSATION AND DISCOVERY CHAPTER 8 THE EIDER-DOWN HUNTER--OFF AT LAST CHAPTER 9 OUR START--WE MEET WITH ADVENTURES BY THE WAY CHAPTER 10 TRAVELING IN ICELAND CHAPTER 11 WE REACH MOUNT SNEFFELS--THE "REYKIR" CHAPTER 12 THE ASCENT OF MOUNT SNEFFELS CHAPTER 13 THE SHADOW OF SCARTARIS CHAPTER 14 THE REAL JOURNEY COMMENCES CHAPTER 15 WE CONTINUE OUR DESCENT CHAPTER 16 THE EASTERN TUNNEL CHAPTER 17 DEEPER AND DEEPER--THE COAL MINE CHAPTER 18 THE WRONG ROAD!
-- CHAPTER 25 THE WHISPERING GALLERY CHAPTER 26 A RAPID RECOVERY CHAPTER 27 THE CENTRAL SEA CHAPTER 28 LAUNCHING THE RAFT CHAPTER 29 ON THE WATERS--A RAFT VOYAGE CHAPTER 30 TERRIFIC SAURIAN COMBAT CHAPTER 31 THE SEA MONSTER CHAPTER 32 THE BATTLE OF THE ELEMENTS CHAPTER 33 OUR ROUTE REVERSED CHAPTER 34 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY CHAPTER 35 DISCOVERY UPON DISCOVERY CHAPTER 36 WHAT IS IT?
-- CHAPTER 37 THE MYSTERIOUS DAGGER CHAPTER 38 NO OUTLET--BLASTING THE ROCK CHAPTER 39 THE EXPLOSION AND ITS RESULTS CHAPTER 40 THE APE GIGANS CHAPTER 41 HUNGER CHAPTER 42 THE VOLCANIC SHAFT CHAPTER 43 DAYLIGHT AT LAST CHAPTER 44 THE JOURNEY ENDED CHAPTER 1 MY UNCLE MAKES A GREAT DISCOVERY Looking back to all that has occurred to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my adventures.
-- They were truly so wonderful that even now I am bewildered when I think of them.
-- This home was in a large town, and my uncle a professor of philosophy, chemistry, geology, mineralogy, and many other ologies.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lady Chatterly's LoverBy D. H. LawrenceDownload free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook.
-- Then he was pronounced a cure, and could return to life again, with the lower half of his body, from the hips down, paralysed for ever.
-- They came to start housekeeping and married life in the rather forlorn home of the Chatterleys on a rather inadequate income.
-- He could wheel himself about in a wheeled chair, and he had a bath-chair with a small motor attachment, so he could drive himself slow-ly round the garden and into the line melancholy park, of which he was really so proud, though he pretended to be flippant about it.
-- Yet still in his face one saw the watchful look, the slight vacancy of a cripple.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Strangers were stared out of countenance by staring white houses, staring white walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away.
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