incident是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 事件, 事变,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:
-- CHAPTER XII ELEVEN THOUSAND FEET ALOFTNOTHING of importance had occurred hitherto in the passage through Chili; but all the obstacles and difficulties incident to a mountain journey were about to crowd on the travelers now.
-- No incident of any importance occurred that night or the following day.
-- No incident occurred of any importance during the 2d and 3d of November, and in the evening they reached the boundary of the Pampas, and camped for the night on the frontiers of the province of Buenos Ayres.
-- Nothing could be more agreeable than such a recital to Lady Helena and Mary Grant; and accordingly Lord Glenarvan hastened to satisfy their curiosity—going over incident by incident, the entire march from one ocean to another, the pass of the Andes, the earthquake, the disappearance of Robert, his capture by the condor, Thalcave's providential shot, the episode of the red wolves, the devotion of the young lad, Sergeant Manuel, the inundations, the caimans, the waterspout, the night on the Atlantic shore—all these details, amusing or terrible, excited by turns laughter and horror in the listeners.
-- But in all that history was there a fact, was there a solitary incident that could justify the discoverers of these islands in considering them as "a continent."
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:
-- It was gone, however, and the incident appeared to make the worst impression upon his mind.
-- 'Exactly,' said Holmes, 'however foolish the incident may seem.
-- To-morrow morning I shall find my way to Coombe Tracey, and if I can see this Mrs. Laura Lyons, of equivocal reputation, a long step will have been made towards clearing one incident in this chain of myster-ies.
-- I have only one other incident to record upon this tem-pestuous and melancholy day.
-- The more outre and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to com-plicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When they arrived at last, on the first floor, and the general turned to ring the bell to the right, the prince decided to run away, but a curious incident stopped him momentarily.
-- But his recent illness, the pain-ful memories attached to it, the fatigue of this evening, the incident with 'Pavlicheff's son,' and now this scene with Hippolyte, had all so worked on his oversensitive nature that he was now almost in a fever.
-- By the end of the third day the incident of the eccentric lady and Evgenie Pavlovitch had attained enormous and mysterious proportions in his mind.
-- In a word, the incident closed as such incidents do, and the band began to play again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I do not know how they settled the business, I hurried straight across the road, which was happily clear, and hardly heeding which way I went, in the fright of detection the incident had given me, plunged into the afternoon throng of Oxford Street.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We stopped and lis-tened, but we heard no more; and presently we went on our way, and the incident dropped out of our minds.
-- The incident seemed merely one more of many horrible things.
-- So that I prefer to make no chronicle for that gap of time, to tell only one car-dinal incident of the ten months I spent as an intimate of these half-humanised brutes.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, as it shortly turned out, what made this incident of the Rachel's the more melancholy, was the circumstance, that not only was one of the Captain's sons among the number of the missing boat's crew; but among the number of the other boat's crews, at the same time, but on the other hand, separated from the ship during the dark vicissitudes of the chase, there had been still another son; as that for a time, the wretched father was plunged to the bottom of the cruellest perplexity; which was only solved for him by his chief mate's instinctively adopting the ordinary procedure of a whale-ship in such emergencies, that is, when placed between jeopardized but divided boats, always to pick up the majority first.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He came in and went out, pursuing his own plans and fancies, addressing a few words to his mother occasionally, relating some little incident to his father, but for the most part confining himself to those generalities with which most conversation concerns itself.
-- The whole incident was glossed over with general remarks, but Mrs. Hurstwood gave the subject considerable thought.
-- Drouet was just finishing a little incident he was relating, and his face was expanding into a smile, when Hurstwood's eye caught his own.
-- Why, if he would just let Carrie see one such little incident as that of Thursday, it would settle the matter.
-- Such conversation as was indulged in held the same relationship to the actual mental enactments of the twain that the low music of the orchestra does to the dramatic incident which it is used to cover.
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