quit是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 离开; 辞职,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《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Throughout the remainder of the day, Bleeding Heart Yard was in consternation, as the grim Pancks cruised in it; haranguing the inhabitants on their backslidings in respect of payment, demanding his bond, breathing notices to quit and executions, running down defaulters, sending a swell of terror on before him, and leaving it in his wake.
-- Granted that she had loved him, and he had known it and had suffered himself to love her, what a road to have led her away upon the road that would have brought her back to this miserable place!He ought to be much comforted by the reflection that she was quit of it forever; that she was, or would soon be, married (vague rumours of her father's projects in that direction had reached Bleeding Heart Yard, with the news of her sister's marriage); and that the Marshalsea gate had shut for ever on all those perplexed possibilities of a time that was gone.
-- Affery, remembering that the clever one had said he would explain himself further in four-and-twenty hours' time, determined for her part that his taking himself off within that period with all he could get, was the final satisfactory sum and substance of his promised explanation; but she held her peace, devoutly thankful to be quit of him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You are the best actress we've got, and there'll be an end of everything if you quit the boards,' said Jo.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And all this seemed natural enough; especially as in the merchant service many captains never show themselves on deck for a considerable time after heaving up the anchor, but remain over the cabin table, having a farewell merry-making with their shore friends, before they quit the ship for good with the pilot.
-- But as these pig-fish are a noisy, contemptible set, mostly lurking in the mouths of rivers, and feeding on wet hay, and especially as they do not spout, I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.
-- Winding far down from within the very heart of this spiked Hotel de Cluny where we here stand however grand and wonderful, now quit it; and take your way, ye nobler, sadder souls, to those vast Roman halls of Thermes; where far beneath the fantastic towers of man's upper earth, his root of grandeur, his whole awful essence sits in bearded state; an antique buried beneath antiquities, and throned on torsoes!So with a broken throne, the great gods mock that captive king; so like a Caryatid, he patient sits, upholding on his frozen brow the piled entablatures of ages.
-- But the captain, having some unusual reason for believing that rare good luck awaited him in those latitudes; and therefore being very averse to quit them, and the leak not being then considered at all dangerous, though, indeed, they could not find it after searching the hold as low down as was possible in rather heavy weather, the ship still continued her cruisings, the mariners working at the pumps at wide and easy intervals; but no good luck came; more days went by, and not only was the leak yet undiscovered, but it sensibly increased.
-- Say you strike a Forty-barrel-bull poor devil!all his comrades quit him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Elizabeth did not quit her room for a moment; nor were the other ladies often ab-sent; the gentlemen being out, they had, in fact, nothing to do elsewhere.
-- She was still very poorly, and Eliz-abeth would not quit her at all, till late in the evening, when she had the comfort of seeing her sleep, and when it seemed to her rather right than pleasant that she should go down-stairs herself.
-- 'Whatever I do is done in a hurry,' replied he; 'and there-fore if I should resolve to quit Netherfield, I should probably be off in five minutes.
-- But, perhaps, Mr. Bingley did not take the house so much for the convenience of the neighbourhood as for his own, and we must expect him to keep it or quit it on the same principle.'
-- And with these words he hastily left the room, and Eliza-beth heard him the next moment open the front door and quit the house.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I told them I knew not what mercy to show them; for as for myself, I had resolved to quit the island with all my men, and had taken passage with the cap-tain to go to England; and as for the captain, he could not carry them to England other than as prisoners in irons, to be tried for mutiny and running away with the ship; the consequence of which, they must needs know, would be the gallows; so that I could not tell what was best for them, un-less they had a mind to take their fate in the island.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To quit the neighbourhood of Norland was no longer an evil; it was an object of desire; it was a blessing, in comparison of the misery of continuing her daughter-in-law's guest; and to remove for ever from that beloved place would be less painful than to inhabit or visit it while such a woman was its mistress.
-- Willoughby opened the piano-forte, and asked Marianne to sit down to it; and thus amidst the various endeavours of different people to quit the topic, it fell to the ground.
-- Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive.
-- The Miss Steeles kept their station at the park, and were to quit it only with the rest of the family.
-- In a short time Elinor saw Willoughby quit the room by the door towards the staircase, and telling Marianne that he was gone, urged the impossibility of speaking to him again that evening, as a fresh argument for her to be calm.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I'm going to quit this," she heard her remark to her neighbour.
-- "Promise me you'll do that," he said, "and we'll quit talking about it.
-- She would have to quit them.
-- Hurstwood quit reading his paper and changed his clothes.
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