most是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 最多的; 大多数的ad. 最; 极其n. 大多数,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 ass brayed, the dog barked, the cat mewed, and the cock screamed; and then they all broke through the window at once, and came tumbling into the room, amongst the broken glass, with a most hideous clatter!The robbers, who had been not a little 25frightened by the opening concert, had now no doubt that some frightful hobgoblin had broken in upon them, and scampered away as fast as they could.
-- The bean thanked him most pret-tily, but as the tailor used black thread, all beans since then have a black seam.
-- Then down they all went, and at the bottom they found themselves in a most delightful grove of trees; and the leaves were all of silver, and glittered and sparkled beautifully.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce ev-ery thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memo-ry; although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human species.
-- Have not I the most reason to complain, when I see these very Yahoos carried by Houyhnhnms in a vehicle, as if they were brutes, and those the rational creatures?
-- I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could easily free myself: and as for the inhabitants, I had reason to be-lieve I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me, if they were all of the same size with him that I saw.
-- I answered in a few words, but in the most sub-missive manner, lifting up my left hand, and both my eyes to the sun, as calling him for a witness; and being almost famished with hunger, having not eaten a morsel for some hours before I left the ship, I found the demands of nature so strong upon me, that I could not forbear showing my im-patience (perhaps against the strict rules of decency) by putting my finger frequently to my mouth, to signify that I wanted food.
-- They found 17by my eating that a small quantity would not suffice me; and being a most ingenious people, they slung up, with great dexterity, one of their largest hogsheads, then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out the top; I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and tasted like a small wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A mighty man at cutting and drying, he was; a government officer; in his way (and in most other people's too), a professed pugilist; always in training, always with a system to force down the general throat like a bolus, always to be heard of at the bar of his little Public-office, ready to fight all England.
-- He had worked his stony way into Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council's Schedule B, and had taken the bloom off the higher branches of mathematics and physical science, French, German, Latin, and Greek.
-- 'For years, ma'am, I was one of the most miserable little wretches ever seen.
-- Mrs. Gradgrind faintly looked at the tongs, as the most appropriate thing her imbecility could think of doing.
-- Firstly, she was most satisfactory as a question of figures; and, secondly, she had 'no nonsense' about her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now most persons in this category supply themselves with information, as peddlers do with goods, for the benefit of others, and lay up stores in order to diffuse them abroad for the benefit of society in general.
-- As I said, my uncle, Professor Hardwigg, was a very learned man; and I now add a most kind relative.
-- His delight was to have found the original work in the Ice landic tongue, which he declared to be one of the most magnificent and yet simple idioms in the world--while at the same time its grammatical combinations were the most varied known to students.
-- The lines shown here are an exact facsimile of what was written on the venerable piece of parchment--and have wonderful importance, as they induced my uncle to undertake the most wonderful series of adventures which ever fell to the lot of human beings.
-- The dictation commenced with the following incomprehensible result: mm.rnlls esruel seecJde sgtssmf unteief niedrke kt,samn atrateS Saodrrn emtnaeI nuaect rrilSa Atvaar .nscrc ieaabs ccdrmi eeutul frantu dt,iac oseibo KediiY Scarcely giving me time to finish, my uncle snatched the document from my hands and examined it with the most rapt and deep attention.
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:
-- So they had given the gift of themselves, each to the youth with whom she had the most subtle and intimate ar-guments.
-- And however one might sentimentalize it, this sex busi-ness was one of the most ancient, sordid connexions and subjections.
-- They appeared in the most modern magazines, and were praised and blamed as usual.
-- In the end Michaelis did him most nobly in a play, and Clifford was a sort of popular hero.
-- The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- John Baptist answered with that peculiar back-handed shake of the right forefinger which is the most expressive negative in the Italian language.
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