take是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 拿取; 吃; 记录; 取得; 花费; 捕获; 认为,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He looked up as if to take aim with that introductory shot.
-- Three hundred thousand, four hundred thousand!The huge multitude!Cheated!All my life it may take me!..
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You agreed to take the beasts.'
-- I bargained to take a man and his attendant to and from Arica, and bring back some animals.
-- I saw the latter take a step forward, and interposed.
-- Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.
-- In a kind of stu-por I watched all hands take to the rigging, and slowly but surely she came round to the wind; the sails fluttered, and then bellied out as the wind came into them.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'They take orders from the Head of the Pack, and not from any striped cattle-killer.
-- And the anxious mothers would take up the call: 'Look look well, O Wolves!'
-- 'Take him away,' he said to Father Wolf, 'and train him as befits one of the Free People.'
-- 'Go thou down quickly to the men's huts in the valley, and take some of the Red Flower which they grow there, so that when the time comes thou mayest have even a stronger friend than I or Ba-loo or those of the Pack that love thee.
-- I take them when they come in my way, but I do not hunt the Bandar-log, or frogs or green scum on a wa-ter-hole, for that matter.'
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:
-- 'The man is, most manifestly, a disciple of Apollo,' cried the amused Alice, 'and I take him under my own especial protection.
-- The white man seemed to take counsel from their customs, and, relinquishing his grasp of the rifle, he also remained silent and reserved.
-- 'I am as ready to do the one as the other; but to fight the Iroquois 'tis necessary to find the skulkers; and to eat, 'tis necessary to get the game talk of the devil and he will come; there is a pair of the biggest antlers I have seen this season, moving the bushes below the hill!Now, Uncas,' he continued, in a half whisper, and laughing with a kind of inward sound, like one who had learned to be watchful, 'I will bet my charger three times full of powder, against a foot of wampum, that I take him atwixt the eyes, and nearer to the right than to the left.'
-- 'You are, then, lost,' interrupted the hunter, 'and have found how helpless 'tis not to know whether to take the right hand or the left?'
-- 'It is enough, for the present, that we trusted to an Indian guide to take us by a nearer, though blinder path, and that we are deceived in his knowledge.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a matter of no little vanity to him on Sundays, to take his station in front of the church gallery, with a band of cho-sen singers; where, in his own mind, he completely carried away the palm from the parson.
-- His notable little wife, too, had enough to do to attend to her housekeeping and manage her poultry; for, as she sagely observed, ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.
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:
-- Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz belongs to that school of historians which believes that human nature is not only about as bad as it can be, but a great deal worse; and certainly the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in representing the great figures of romance as patterns of the domestic virtues.
-- I wanted no one to take notice of me, so that I could observe these famous creatures at my ease and listen to the clever things they said.
-- It was obvious that he had no social gifts, but these a man can do without; he had no eccentricity even, to take him out of the common run; he was just a good, dull, honest, plain man.
-- I wondered how soon I could decently take my leave, and I asked myself why on earth Mrs. Strickland had allowed me to come.
-- I was a little puzzled, but at all events I understood that I might now take my leave.
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