illness是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 病, 疾病,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《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When she recovered from a bad illness that she had, she laid the whole place waste, as you have seen it, and she has never since looked upon the light of day."
-- As the days wore on, and no ill news came, as the day closed in and darkness fell, my overshadowing dread of being disabled by illness before to-morrow morning altogether mastered me.
-- And but for his illness he would have been put in irons, for he was regarded as a determined prison-breaker, and I know not what else.
-- "Which you meantersay, Pip, how long have your illness lasted, dear old chap?"
-- As he extended his hand with a magnificently forgiving air, and as I was broken by illness and unfit to quarrel, I took it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A working woman, christened Rachael, after a long illness once again appearing at the ringing of the Factory bell, and passing to and fro at the set hours, among the Coketown Hands; a woman of pensive beauty, always dressed in black, but sweet-tempered and serene, and even cheerful; who, of all the people in the place, alone appeared to have compassion on a degraded, drunken wretch of her own sex, who was sometimes seen in the town secretly begging of her, and crying to her; a woman working, ever working, but content to do it, and preferring to do it as her natural lot, until she should be too old to labour any more?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Wait a moment, my dear Harry," he responded; "you must take precautions after your illness before going into the open air."
-- I thought a bath would be delightful after my long illness and sufferings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I declare,' she sobbed, 'I never was so cut up since your mama and my papa not Doyce and Clennam for this once but give the precious little thing a cup of tea and make her put it to her lips at least pray Arthur do, not even Mr F.'s last illness for that was of another kind and gout is not a child's affection though very painful for all parties and Mr F. a martyr with his leg upon a rest and the wine trade in itself inflammatory for they will do it more or less among themselves and who can wonder, it seems like a dream I am sure to think of nothing at all this morning and now Mines of money is it really, but you must know my darling love because you never will be strong enough to tell him all about it upon teaspoons, mightn't it be even best to try the directions of my own medical man for though the flavour is anything but agreeable still I force myself to do it as a prescription and find the benefit, you'd rather not why no my dear I'd rather not but still I do it as a duty, everybody will congratulate you some in earnest and some not and many will congratulate you with all their hearts but none more so I do assure you from the bottom of my own I do myself though sensible of blundering and being stupid, and will be judged by Arthur not Doyce and Clennam for this once so good-bye darling and God bless you and may you be very happy and excuse the liberty, vowing that the dress shall never be finished by anybody else but shall be laid by for a keepsake just as it is and called Little Dorrit though why that strangest of denominations at any time I never did myself and now I never shall!'
-- I wouldn't trust myself to that woman, young and handsome as she is, if I had wronged her; no, not for twice my proprietor's money!Unless,' Pancks added as a saving clause, 'I had a lingering illness on me, and wanted to get it over.'
-- Mr Pancks might, or might not, have caught the illness himself from a subject of this class; but in this category he appeared before Clennam, and the infection he threw off was all the more virulent.
-- Has he had any illness since I have been gone?'
-- 'I was saying,' she pursued, 'that my brother's illness has occasioned a delay in examining and arranging papa's property.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There seemed no sign of common bodily illness about him, nor of the recovery from any.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had forgotten it for a moment, Oliver, but I hope I may be pardoned, for I am old, and have seen enough of illness and death to know the agony of separation from the objects of our love.
-- If Rose had--I cannot utter that word now--if this illness had terminated differently, how could you ever have forgiven yourself!How could I ever have know happiness again!'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Had she found Jane in any apparent danger, Mrs. Ben-net would have been very miserable; but being satisfied on seeing her that her illness was not alarming, she had no wish of her recovering immediately, as her restoration to health would probably remove her from Netherfield.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In a word, I turned pale, and grew sick; and, had not the old man run and fetched me a cordial, I believe the sud-den surprise of joy had overset nature, and I had died upon the spot: nay, after that I continued very ill, and was so some hours, till a physician being sent for, and something of the real cause of my illness being known, he ordered me to be let blood; after which I had relief, and grew well: but I verify believe, if I had not been eased by a vent given in that man-ner to the spirits, I should have died.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His son was sent for as soon as his danger was known, and to him Mr. Dashwood recommended, with all the strength and urgency which illness could command, the interest of his mother-in-law and sisters.
-- Soon after this, upon Elinor's leaving the room, "Mama," said Marianne, "I have an alarm on the subject of illness which I cannot conceal from you.
-- At her time of life, any thing of an illness destroys the bloom for ever!Hers has been a very short one!She was as handsome a girl last September, as I ever saw; and as likely to attract the man.
-- The sisters set out at a pace, slow as the feebleness of Marianne in an exercise hitherto untried since her illness required; and they had advanced only so far beyond the house as to admit a full view of the hill, the important hill behind, when pausing with her eyes turned towards it, Marianne calmly said,"There, exactly there," pointing with one hand, "on that projecting mound, there I fell; and there I first saw Willoughby."
-- My illness has made me think It has given me leisure and calmness for serious recollection.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Woe betide the lazy fellow!Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood.
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