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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had a sweet and generous nature, and yet was always blundering; a real feeling for what was beautiful and the capacity to create only what was commonplace; a peculiar delicacy of sentiment and gross manners.
-- As she opened the door he smelt the sickly sweet smell which makes the neighbourhood of the leper nauseous.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lastly, the sweet water was there.
-- They consisted principally of casuarinas and eucalypti, some of which next year would yield a sweet manna, similar to the manna of the East.
-- "And I may add," said Herbert, "that the eucalyptus belongs to a family which comprises many useful members; the guava-tree, from whose fruit guava jelly is made; the clove-tree, which produces the spice; the pomegranate-tree, which bears pomegranates; the Eugeacia Cauliflora, the fruit of which is used in making a tolerable wine; the Ugui myrtle, which contains an excellent alcoholic liquor; the Caryophyllus myrtle, of which the bark forms an esteemed cinnamon; the Eugenia Pimenta, from whence comes Jamaica pepper; the common myrtle, from whose buds and berries spice is sometimes made; the Eucalyptus manifera, which yields a sweet sort of manna; the Guinea Eucalyptus, the sap of which is transformed into beer by fermentation; in short, all those trees known under the name of gum-trees or iron-bark trees in Australia, belong to this family of the myrtaceae, which contains forty-six genera and thirteen hundred species!"
-- "And lastly, that the bamboos exude a sweet liquor which can be made into a very agreeable drink."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air, over-powering even the unwholesome streams of last night's debauchery, and driving the dusky thrush, whose cage has hung outside a garret window all night long, half mad with joy!Poor bird!the only neighbouring thing at all akin to the other little captives, some of whom, shrinking from the hot hands of drunken purchasers, lie drooping on the path already, while others, soddened by close contact, await the time when they shall be watered and freshened up to please more sober company, and make old clerks who pass them on their road to business, wonder what has filled their breasts with visions of the country.
-- One night I had roamed into the City, and was walking slowly on in my usual way, musing upon a great many things, when I was arrested by an inquiry, the purport of which did not reach me, but which seemed to be addressed to myself, and was preferred in a soft sweet voice that struck me very pleasantly.
-- Open the door, sweet Mrs Quilp!'
-- 'To be Mrs Quilp the second, when Mrs Quilp the first is dead, sweet Nell,' said Quilp, wrinkling up his eyes and luring her towards him with his bent forefinger, 'to be my wife, my little cherry-cheeked, red-lipped wife.
-- The name of the first of these newcomers was Vuffin; the other, probably as a pleasant satire upon his ugliness, was called Sweet William.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The lady received Maslova affectionately, treated her to choice cakes and sweet wine, while she dispatched her servant somewhere with a note.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then he turned to the two others who were following him and spoke to them in a strange and very sweet and liquid tongue.
-- It was as sweet and fair a view as I have ever seen.
-- The air was free from gnats, the earth from weeds or fungi; everywhere were fruits and sweet and delightful flowers; brilliant butterflies flew hither and thither.
-- Even the soil smelt sweet and clean.
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:
-- Such a soft sweet voice it had!
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ah, they was a sweet crew, they was!On'y, where are they?"
-- "You just jump up, like a sweet lad, and get me an apple, to wet my pipe like."
-- "Ah," says he, "this here is a sweet spot, this island a sweet spot for a lad to get ashore on.
-- A sweet pretty place you have of it here.
-- Come high water, all hands take a pull upon the line, and off she comes as sweet as natur'.
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:
-- How sweet the silence is!Ursula looked with hatred on the buffers of the diminishing wagon.
-- He saw her face strangely enkindled, as if suffused from within by a powerful sweet fire.
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