feminine是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 女性的; 娇柔的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The likeness passed away, like a breath along the surface of the gaunt pier-glass behind her, on the frame of which, a hospital procession of negro cupids, several headless and all cripples, were offering black baskets of Dead Sea fruit to black divinities of the feminine gender-and he made his formal bow to Miss Manette.
-- Between the eyebrows and just over the little feminine nose, the line of which was as delicate and fine as it was pos-sible to be, the expression deepened itself as she took her seat thoughtfully in the chair by which she had hitherto re-mained standing.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Strange as it may appear, it was with the household, the family, that Konstantin Levin was in love, especially with the feminine half of the household.
-- All the members of that family, especially the feminine half, were pictured by him, as it were, wrapped about with a mysterious poetical veil, and he not only perceived no defects whatever in them, but under the poetical veil that shrouded them he assumed the existence of the loftiest sentiments and every possible perfection.
-- With a flying, feminine glance she scanned her attire, and made a movement of her head, hardly perceptible, but understood by Kitty, signifying approval of her dress and her looks.
-- While still outside his own door, as he rang, he heard masculine laughter, the lisp of a feminine voice, and Petritsky's voice.
-- No one else in Stepan Arkadyevitch's place, having to do with such despair, would have ventured to smile (the smile would have seemed brutal); but in his smile there was so much of sweetness and almost feminine tenderness that his smile did not wound, but softened and soothed.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was feminine but undemanding; she was never Improving and rarely shocked; she was neither flirtatious nor cold.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 330 Crime and PunishmentYou are intentionally lying, simply from feminine obstinacy, simply to hold your own against me芒聙娄.
-- Setting aside the general question of chastity and feminine modesty as useless in themselves and indeed prejudices, I fully accept her chastity with me, because that's for her to decide.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The air of wicked grace: of triumph, in which, strange to say, therewas yet something feminine and alluring: with which she reclinedupon the seat between us, and looked at me, was worthy of a cruelprincess in a legend.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The weather soon improved enough for those to move who must move; and Mr. Woodhouse having, as usual, tried to persuade his daughter to stay behind with all her children, was obliged to see the whole party set off, and return to his lamentations over the destiny of poor Isabella; which poor Isabella, passing her life with those she doated on, full of their merits, blind to their faults, and always innocently busy, might have been a model of right feminine happiness.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though likely dramas in which men would play a part vistas of probable triumphs the smiles being of a phase suggesting that hearts were imagined as lost and won.
-- Among these heavy yeomen a feminine figure glided, the single one of her sex that the room contained.
-- It was only whispered, for something unutterably mournful no less than distressing in this spectacle of a man showing himself to be so entirely the vane of a passion enervated the feminine instinct for punctilios.
-- He worked in a reverie now, musing upon her story, and upon the contradictoriness of that feminine heart which had caused her to speak more warmly to him to-night than she ever had done whilst unmarried and free to speak as warmly as she chose.
-- Once there, Bathsheba was forced to make the best of it and remain: she sat down, spreading her skirts with some dignity over the unoccupied space on each side of her, and giving a new and feminine aspect to the pavilion.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What corrosive had destroyed the feminine outlines?
-- Ah, what it is to be young, eager to see the world, greedily on the watch for any chance that brings you nearer the woman of your dreams, and behold two houses open their doors to you!To set foot in the Vicomtesse de Beauseant's house in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; to fall on your knees before a Comtesse de Restaud in the Chaussee d'Antin; to look at one glance across a vista of Paris drawing-rooms, conscious that, possessing sufficient good looks, you may hope to find aid and protection there in a feminine heart!To feel ambitious enough to spurn the tight-rope on which you must walk with the steady head of an acrobat for whom a fall is impossible, and to find in a charming woman the best of all balancing poles.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his ser-vices.
-- It 41was said, and we retired under the pretence of seeking re-pose, each fancying that the other was deceived; but when at morning's dawn I descended to the carriage which was to convey me away, they were all there my father again to bless me, Clerval to press my hand once more, my Eliza-beth to renew her entreaties that I would write often and to bestow the last feminine attentions on her playmate and friend.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Perhaps if she changed her tactics But she felt that if Ashleysuccumbed to premeditated feminine tricks, she could never respect him as she now did.
-- And thecivilization of which she was a part would have been unbelieving too, for at no time, before or since, had so low apremium been placed on feminine naturalness.
-- As they neared the intersecting road that came down the thickly wooded hill from Mimosa and Fairhill, the soundof hooves and carriage wheels became plainer and clamorous feminine voices raised in pleasant dispute sounded frombehind the screen of trees.
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