shadow是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 阴影, 影子, 荫; 暗处, 阴暗,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.
-- There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall.
-- 'One shadow more.'
-- Scrooge followed in the shadow of its dress, which bore him up, he thought, and carried him along.
-- But nothing doubting that to whomsoever they applied they had some latent moral for his own improve-ment, he resolved to treasure up every word he heard, and everything he saw; and especially to observe the shadow of himself when it appeared.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They seemed to be numerous, for she shied at every shadow on the road.
-- (Laying the palest shadow of a stress upon the second word.)
-- After bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy with a weak rattle in its throat, you fell into Tellson's down two steps, and came to your senses in a miserable little shop, with two little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the din-giest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet-street, and which were made the dingi-er by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar.
-- While one external cause, and that a reference to his long lingering agony, would always as on the trial evoke this condition from the depths of his soul, it was also in its nature to arise of itself, and to draw a gloom over him, as incomprehensible to those unacquainted with his story as if they had seen the shadow of the actual Bastille 110 A tale of two citiesthrown upon him by a summer sun, when the substance was three hundred miles away.
-- He slowly shook the shadow off, and turned to her.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- THE SHADOW t is in the hot lands that the sun burns, sure enough!there Ithe people become quite a mahogany brown, ay, and in the HOTTEST lands they are burnt to Negroes.
-- The learned man from the cold lands he was a young man, and seemed to be a clever man sat in a glowing oven; it took effect on him, he became quite meagre even his shadow shrunk in, for the sun had also an effect on it.
-- The light burnt in the room behind him; and thus it was quite 174 Andersen's Fairy Talesnatural that his shadow should fall on his opposite neigh-bor's wall.
-- Yes!there it sat, directly opposite, between the flowers on the balcony; and when the stranger moved, the shadow also moved: for that it always does.
-- 'I think my shadow is the only living thing one sees over there,' said the learned man.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The bent shadow of a man glided by at her feet, and she heard sounds of a hammer upon iron.
-- She gazed rather a long while at him without answering, and, in spite of the shadow in which he was standing, she saw, or fancied she saw, both the expression of his face and his eyes.
-- "The great change is that she brought back with her the shadow of Alexey Vronsky," said the ambassador's wife.
-- "Yes, but women with a shadow usually come to a bad end," said Anna's friend.
-- She noticed, too, that when she had found a Catholic priest with her, Madame Stahl had studiously kept her face in the shadow of the lamp- shade and had smiled in a peculiar way.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And you, my brother," continued the Elder, fixing his angry eyes upon his single auditor, "will you not plant yours there, too, under the shadow of our flag?"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He entered the shadow of the Anatomy Building, grim as a barracks, still as the dead men lying up there in the dissecting-room.
-- He saw bursting from the shadow a bulky man, vaguely in a porter's uniform, who was shouting: "I've caught yuh!Back you come into the hospital, and we'll find out what you've been up to!"
-- Whatever Martin might, under the shadow of Max Gottlieb, have said about Holabird, now he wrung his hands and muttered, "It's good to be home."
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