deadly是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 致命的, 殊死的; ad. 死一般地; 非常,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:
-- Mr. Jaggers's own high-backed chair was of deadly black horsehair, with rows of brass nails round it, like a coffin; and I fancied I could see how he leaned back in it, and bit his forefinger at the clients.
-- said he, with a deadly look.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That bereaved lady, fifteen years older than he, fell presently at deadly feud with her only relative, Lady Scadgers; and, partly to spite her ladyship, and partly to maintain herself, went out at a salary.
-- He turned of a deadly hue, and a sudden horror seemed to fall upon him.
-- To this Observatory, then: a stern room, with a deadly statistical clock in it, which measured every second with a beat like a rap upon a coffin-lid; Louisa repaired on the appointed morning.
-- The deadly statistical clock very hollow.
-- The deadly statistical recorder in the Gradgrind observatory knocked every second on the head as it was born, and buried it with his accustomed regularity.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Suddenly I felt a deadly faintness come over me.
-- Presently, despite my apathy, despite the kind of deadly calm into which I was cast, something aroused me.
-- But to my excited imagination the other animals appeared about to take part in the fierce and deadly struggle--the monster, the whale, the lizard, and the turtle.
-- The struggle continued with the same deadly tenacity, but without apparent result.
-- The deadly opponents now approached, now drew away from the raft.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Through the heart of the town a deadly sewer ebbed and flowed, in the place of a fine fresh river.
-- cried Mr Blandois, turning white, hot, and slowly rising with a look of such deadly wrath that it contrasted surprisingly with the slight force of his words.
-- Do not forget the deadly sin, do not forget the appointed discovery, do not forget the appointed suffering.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What bitter blanks in those black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes!What despair in those immovable inscriptions!What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.
-- But nothing about that thing that happened to him off Cape Horn, long ago, when he lay like dead for three days and nights; nothing about that deadly skrimmage with the Spaniard afore the altar in Santa? heard nothing about that, eh?
-- Good-humored, easy, and careless, he presided over his whale-boat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner, and his crew all invited guests.
-- Nor did wild rumors of all sorts fail to exaggerate, and still the more horrify the true histories of these deadly encounters.
-- There it was, too, that most of the deadly encounters with the white whale had taken place; there the waves were storied with his deeds; there also was that tragic spot where the monomaniac old man had found the awful motive to his vengeance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was deadly pale; and the whole place seemed turning round and round.
-- Little Oliver Twist lay on his back on the pavement, with his shirt unbuttoned, and his temples bathed with water; his face a deadly white; and a cold tremble convulsing his whole frame.
-- But Oliver felt her hand tremble, and, looking up in her face as they passed a gas-lamp, saw that it had turned a deadly white.
-- And then, the noises grew confused in the distance; and a cold deadly feeling crept over the boy's heart; and he saw or heard no more.
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