novelty是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 新奇, 新颖, 新奇的事物,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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But if your Lordship has no objections, and it would give the smallest pleasure to Lady Helena to see a novelty in the way of fishing, we'll soon haul up the monster and find out what it really is."
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:
-- David had contend-ed, and the novelty of the circumstance held him silent, in deliberation on the propriety of the unusual occurrence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The good woman, being not a little embarrassed by the novelty of her situation, and certain material apprehensions that perhaps by this time little Jacob, or the baby, or both, had fallen into the fire, or tumbled down stairs, or had been squeezed behind doors, or had scalded their windpipes in endeavouring to allay their thirst at the spouts of tea-kettles, preserved an uneasy silence; and meeting from the window the eyes of turnpike-men, omnibus-drivers, and others, felt in the new dignity of her position like a mourner at a funeral, who, not being greatly afflicted by the loss of the departed, recognizes his every-day acquaintance from the window of the mourning coach, but is constrained to preserve a decent solemnity, and the appearance of being indifferent to all external objects.
-- Mr Abel being in a thoughtful frame of mind, and having quite enough to do to keep the pony going, went jogging on without looking round: little dreaming of the strange figure that was close behind him, until the Marchioness, having in some degree recovered her breath, and the loss of her shoe, and the novelty of her position, uttered close into his ear, the words 'I say, Sir' He turned his head quickly enough then, and stopping the pony, cried, with some trepidation, 'God bless me, what is this!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now he experienced the gladness of release and the feeling of novelty akin to that experienced by an explorer who discovers new lands.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For a part of the night the novelty of the situation kept us at the window.
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:
-- They want novelty right enough.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The insipidity of the meeting was exactly such as Elinor had expected; it produced not one novelty of thought or expression, and nothing could be less interesting than the whole of their discourse both in the dining parlour and drawing room: to the latter, the children accompanied them, and while they remained there, she was too well convinced of the impossibility of engaging Lucy's attention to attempt it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Amid all the maze, uproar, and novelty she felt cold reality taking her by the hand.
-- Carrie did not exactly fancy the suggestion, but the novelty of the situation, the presence of strangers, all more or less nervous, and the desire to do anything rather than make a failure, made her timid.
-- He managed to run up and take dinner with her between six and seven, and to remain home until nine o'clock in the morning, but the novelty of this waned after a time, and he began to feel the drag of his duties.
-- The novelty and danger of the situation modified in a way his disgust and distress at being compelled to be here, but not enough to prevent him from feeling grim and sour.
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