knife是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 刀, 餐刀v. 用刀切, 用匕首刺,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《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The landlord now busied himself in laying the cloth, in which process Mr Codlin obligingly assisted by setting forth his own knife and fork in the most convenient place and establishing himself behind them.
-- And in this kitchen, Kit sat himself down at a table as white as a tablecloth, to eat cold meat, and drink small ale, and use his knife and fork the more awkwardly, because there was an unknown Barbara looking on and observing him.
-- No doubt with the same amiable desire, he immediately resumed his knife and fork, as a practical assurance that the beer had wrought no bad effect upon his appetite.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At that the Editor turned to his knife and fork with a grunt, and the Silent Man followed suit.
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:
-- cried the Unicorn, as Alice sat with the knife in her hand, very much puzzled how to begin.
-- she said, taking up the knife and fork, and looking from one Queen to the other.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He spoke to him as before, over his shoulder and in the same tone of voice, rather high, so that all the room might hear, but perfectly calm and steady: "If you do not put that knife this instant in your pocket, I promise, upon my honour, you shall hang at the next assizes."
-- A knife in his back as like as not.
-- Silver, agile as a monkey even without leg or crutch, was on the top of him next moment and had twice buried his knife up to the hilt in that defenceless body.
-- Just before him Tom lay motionless upon the sward; but the murderer minded him not a whit, cleansing his blood-stained knife the while upon a wisp of grass.
-- There was a sudden scuffle, a sound of blows, and out burst Abraham Gray with a knife cut on the side of the cheek, and came running to the captain like a dog to the whistle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said he; and, slipping an open knife under my clothes, he ripped them up from top to bottom very rapidly.
-- Happily, my bowie knife I have still, and I can always see well enough to use it.
-- "At last one can see," cried Ned Land, who, knife in hand, stood on the defensive.
-- "And," I added, "this bird, suitably prepared, is worth knife and fork."
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:
-- "You seem to have a lurking desire to have your gizzard slit, and imagine every man has his knife up his sleeve for you," Birkin said.
-- The two sisters were like a pair of scissors, snipping off everything that came athwart them; or like a knife and a whetstone, the one sharpened against the other.
-- For reply, she suddenly jabbed a knife across his thick, pale hand.
-- Now she was driven up against his perfect sleeping motion like a knife white-hot on a grindstone.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He held the knife in his hand, and pushed its point between my teeth: but, for my part, I was never much afraid of his vagaries.
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