sweet是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 甜的; 可爱的, 美好的n. (常pl. ) 糖果; 甜食,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:
-- Some thought the flavor sweet and agreeable, others pronounced it leathery, insipid, and resembling the taste of gum.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All was sweet and mellow and peaceful in the golden evening light, and yet as I looked at them my soul shared none of the peace of nature but quiv-ered at the vagueness and the terror of that interview which every instant was bringing nearer.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Totski, who was living abroad at this time, very soon forgot all about the child; but five years after, returning to Russia, it struck him that he would like to look over his estate and see how matters were going there, and, arrived at his bailiff's house, he was not long in discovering that among the children of the latter there now dwelt a most lovely little girl of twelve, sweet and intelligent, and bright, and promising to develop beauty of most unusual quality-as to which last Totski was an undoubted authority.
-- Schneider was obliged to prom-ise that I should not meet them and talk to them; but we conversed from a distance by signs, and they used to write me sweet little notes.
-- As the prince opened his mouth to answer, he was inter-rupted by the girl, whose sweet face wore an expression of absolute frankness.
-- 'Never more from that sweet moment Gazed he on womankind; He was dumb to love and wooing And to all their graces blind.
-- 'Full of love for that sweet vision, Brave and pure he took the field; With his blood he stained the letters N. P. B. upon his shield.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then Vulcan drew sweet nectar from the mixing-bowl, and served it round among the gods, go-ing from left to right; and the blessed gods laughed out a loud applause as they saw him bustling about the heavenly mansion.
-- Apollo struck his lyre, and the Muses lifted up their sweet voices, calling and answering one another.
-- They then offered unblemished hecatombs to the immortals, and the wind carried the sweet savour of sacrifice to heaven but the blessed gods partook not thereof, for they bitterly hat-ed Ilius with Priam and Priam's people.
-- When they reached the strongly built quarters of the son of Tyde-us, they tied the horses with thongs of leather to the manger, where the steeds of Diomed stood eating their sweet corn, but Ulysses hung the blood-stained spoils of Dolon at the stern of his ship, that they might prepare a sacred offering to Minerva.
-- All things pall after a while sleep, love, sweet song, and stately dance still these are things of which a man would surely have his fill rather than of battle, whereas it is of battle that the Trojans are insatiate.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Back to the House of Pain, back to the House of Pain,' gabbled the Ape-man, as though the idea was sweet to him.
-- My one idea was to get away from these horrible caricatures of my Maker's image, back to the sweet and wholesome intercourse of men.
-- Sixteen years being bullied by nurses and schoolmasters at their own sweet will; five in London grinding hard at med-icine, bad food, shabby lodgings, shabby clothes, shabby vice, a blunder, I didn't know any better, and hustled off to this beastly island.
-- Each went howling at his own sweet will, yelping insults at me, or giving whatever other vent this new inspiration of brandy demanded.
-- For that reason I live near the broad free downland, and can escape thither when this shadow is over my soul; and very sweet is the empty downland then, under the wind-swept sky.
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:
-- 'It can't be denied that your traditions tell you true in both these matters,' said the white man; 'for I have been there, and have seen them, though why water, which is so sweet in the shade, should become bitter in the sun, is an al-teration for which I have never been able to account.'
-- Chapter 6 'Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide; He wales a portion with judicious care; And 'Let us worship God', he says, with solemn air.
-- But old age is a great injury to good looks, as these sweet young ladies have yet to l'arn!The place is sadly changed!These rocks are full of cracks, and in some places they are softer than at other-some, and the water has worked out deep hollows for itself, until it has fallen back, ay, some hundred feet, breaking here and wearing there, until the falls have neither shape nor consistency.'
-- That while he tendered to Alice the gourd of sweet water, and the venison in a trencher, neatly carved from the knot of the pepperidge, with sufficient courtesy, in performing the same offices to her sister, his dark eye lingered on her rich, speaking countenance.
-- 'Yes, sweet innocence,' whispered the youth; 'Duncan is here, and while life continues or danger remains, he will never quit thee.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thus feeding his mind with many sweet thoughts and 'sugared suppositions,' he journeyed along the sides of a range of hills which look out upon some of the goodliest scenes of the mighty Hudson.
-- There was the doughty doughnut, the tender olykoek, and the crisp and crumbling cruller; sweet cakes and short cakes, ginger cakes and honey cakes, and the whole fam-ily of cakes.
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