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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The facts relating to this apparition (entered in various log-books) agreed in most respects as to the shape of the object or creature in question, the untiring rapidity of its movements, its surprising power of locomotion, and the peculiar life with which it seemed endowed.
-- They examined the sea with the most careful attention.
-- It had been so much talked of, even through the Atlantic cable, that jesters pretended that this slender fly had stopped a telegram on its passage and was making the most of it.
-- Here there was matter for reflection even to the most impassive man in the world.
-- The voyage was being accomplished under the most favourable auspices.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was the most remarkable woman in the Midlands.
-- "He's the most wanting of them all.
-- Birkin decided that he detested toasts, and footmen, and assemblies, and mankind altogether, in most of its aspects.
-- repeated the brother-in-law, with most killing emphasis.
-- "As a matter of fact, none of us wants our throat cut, and most other people would like to cut it for us some time or other ""It's a nasty view of things, Gerald," said Birkin, "and no wonder you are afraid of yourself and your own unhappiness."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- While enjoying a month of fine weather at the sea coast, I was thrown into the company of a most fascinating creature: a real goddess in my eyes, as long as she took no notice of me.
-- She was slender, and apparently scarcely past girlhood: an admirable form, and the most exquisite little face that I have ever had the pleasure of beholding; small features, very fair; flaxen ringlets, or rather golden, hanging loose on her delicate neck; and eyes, had they been agreeable in expression, that would have been irresistible: fortunately for my susceptible heart, the only sentiment they evinced hovered between scorn and a kind of desperation, singularly unnatural to be detected there.
-- He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction: a look of hatred; unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.
-- They were of the most curious character: odd transgressions that I never imagined previously.
-- With that concluding word, the whole assembly, exalting their pilgrim's staves, rushed round me in a body; and I, having no weapon to raise in self defence, commenced grappling with Joseph, my nearest and most ferocious assailant, for his.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'In most gardens,' the Tiger-lily said, 'they make the beds too soft so that the flowers are always asleep.'
-- For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country and a most curious country it was.
-- The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything.
-- 'You know,' he added very gravely, 'it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle to get one's head cut off.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For in these fits he was the most overriding companion ever known; he would slap his hand on the table for silence all round; he would fly up in a passion of anger at a question, or sometimes because none was put, and so he judged the company was not following his story.
-- He never wrote or received a letter, and he never spoke with any but the neighbours, and with these, for the most part, only when drunk on rum.
-- Once I stepped out myself into the road, but he immediately called me back, and as I did not obey quick enough for his fancy, a most horrible change came over his tallowy face, and he ordered me in with an oath that made me jump.
-- The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice; the squire was hard at work at Bristol; and I lived on at the hall under the charge of old Redruth, the gamekeeper, almost a prisoner, but full of sea-dreams and the most charming anticipations of strange islands and adventures.
-- Sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room, I approached that island in my fancy from every possible direction; I explored every acre of its surface; I climbed a thousand times to that tall hill they call the Spy-glass, and from the top enjoyed the most wonderful and changing prospects.
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