to是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为prep. (表示方向) 到; 向; (表示间接关系) 给.,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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
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-- I had two elder brothers, one of whom was lieuten-ant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards.
-- Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts.
-- My father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house-education and a country free school generally go, and designed me for the law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea; and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal in that propensity of nature, tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.
-- He told me it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspir-ing, superior fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves fa-mous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road; that these things were all either too far above me or too far below me; that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found, by long experience, was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness, not exposed to the miseries and hardships, the labour and sufferings of the mechanic part of mankind, and not embarrassed with the pride, luxury, am-bition, and envy of the upper part of mankind.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance.
-- The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.
-- But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it.
-- His attachment to them all increased.
-- The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A gush of tears at her mother's farewell kiss, a touch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour mill where her father worked by the day, a pathetic sigh as the familiar green environs of the village passed in review, and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably broken.
-- To be sure there was always the next station, where one might descend and return.
-- A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms.
-- Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear!Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.
-- And yet she was interested in her charms, quick to understand the keener pleasures of life, ambitious to gain in material things.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBy Mark TwainEXPLANATORY N this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Mis-Isouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary 'Pike County' dialect; and four modified varieties of this last.
-- I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.
-- The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnScene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago Chapter I OU don't know about me without you have read a book Yby the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
-- Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round more than a body could tell what to do with.
-- But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respect-able.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
-- Rubbing his hands together happily, he mumbled half to himself: "This has come in the nick of time.
-- I shall use it to make the leg of a table."
-- He grasped the hatchet quickly to peel off the bark and shape the wood.
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