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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His temper continued very uncertain; for the most part his manner was that of a man suffering under almost unendurable provocation, and once or twice things were snapped, torn, crushed, or broken in spasmodic gusts of violence.
-- He rarely went abroad by daylight, but at twilight he would go out muffled up invisibly, whether the weather were cold or not, and he chose the loneliest paths and those most overshadowed by trees and banks.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So that this narra-tive is without confirmation in its most essential particular.
-- He had the squarest and most resolute face I ever set eyes upon.
-- As we came still nearer, this individual began to run to and fro on the beach, making the most grotesque movements.
-- I recalled that none of these men had spo-ken to me, though most of them I had found looking at me at one time or another in a peculiarly furtive manner, quite unlike the frank stare of your unsophisticated savage.
-- He might perhaps have purchased his social peace by abandoning his investi-gations; but he apparently preferred the latter, as most men would who have once fallen under the overmastering spell of research.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
-- The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsports-manlike to touch him.
-- Then, if you had been watching, you would have seen the most wonderful thing in the world the wolf checked in mid-spring.
-- And most of the wolves began to gather round Shere Khan, whose tail was beginning to switch.
-- The Mon-key-People, watching in the trees, considered his play most wonderful.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- INTRODUCTION It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the Iinformation necessary to understand its allusions, are rendered sufficiently obvious to the reader in the text itself, or in the accompanying notes.
-- The warriors appeared to be on the most friendly terms, and seemingly conversed much together; yet, according to the account of the in-terpreter, each was absolutely ignorant of what the other said.
-- Whatever may be the truth, as respects the root and the genius of the Indian tongues, it is quite certain they are now so distinct in their words as to possess most of the disadvantages of strange languages; hence much of the embarrassment that has aris-en in learning their histories, and most of the uncertainty which exists in their traditions.
-- It became, emphatically, the bloody arena, in which most of the battles for the mastery of the colonies were contested.
-- Even the most confident and the stoutest hearts began to think the issue of the contest was becoming doubt-ful; and that abject class was hourly increasing in numbers, who thought they foresaw all the possessions of the English crown in America subdued by their Christian foes, or laid waste by the inroads of their relentless allies.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being be-lated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.
-- He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dan-gled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
-- It was most in-geniously secured at vacant hours, by a *withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shut-ters; so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out, an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot.
-- He was, moreover, esteemed by the wom-en as a man of great erudition, for he had read several books quite through, and was a perfect master of Cotton Mather's 'History of New England Witchcraft,' in which, by the way, he most firmly and potently believed.
-- The fire-flies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon bright-ness would stream across his path; and if, by chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with a witch's token.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults.
-- The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.
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