blade是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 刀刃, 刀片; 桨叶; 草叶, 叶片,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:
-- John Mangles, inserting the blade of his poniard, avoided the knife which now protruded above the soil, but seized the hand that wielded 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:
-- It was a plainlooking knife, with a bone handle, a blade about eight inches long, and broad in proportion, it did not clasp.
-- 'Every blade of grass grew and was happy.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Many a good stout blade hilted and scabbarded with iron, fell from hand or shoulder as they fought, and the earth ran red with blood.
-- The blade sank so deep that the head was held on by nothing but the skin, and there was no more life left in him.
-- The other two horses began to plunge; the pole of the chariot cracked and they got entangled in the reins through the fall of the horse that was yoked along with them; but Automedon knew what to do; without the loss of a moment he drew the keen blade that hung by his sturdy thigh and cut the third horse adrift; whereon the other two righted themselves, and pulling hard at the reins again went togeth-er into battle.
-- Aeneas though he had avoided the spear, stood still, blinded with fear and grief because the weapon had gone so near him; then Achilles sprang furiously upon him, with a cry as of death and with his keen blade drawn, and Aeneas seized a great stone, so huge that two men, as men now are, would be unable to lift it, but Aeneas wielded it quite easily.
-- As he spoke he drew the keen blade that hung so great and strong by his side, and gathering himself together be sprang on Achilles like a soaring eagle which swoops down from the clouds on to some lamb or timid hare even so did Hector brandish his sword and spring upon Achilles.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then, choosing the place deliberately, he drove the blade into his leg and withdrew it.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But within the limits of the clearing there was not a single blade of green noth-ing but the trampled earth.
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 Hurons soon fired again, and a bullet struck the blade of Hawkeye's paddle without injury.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As a means towards his composure and self-possession, he entered into a more minute examination of the office than he had yet had time to make; looked into the wig-box, the books, and ink-bottle; untied and inspected all the papers; carved a few devices on the table with a sharp blade of Mr Brass's penknife; and wrote his name on the inside of the wooden coal-scuttle.
-- It was plain that some extraordinary grudge was working in Miss Brass's gentle breast, and that it was that which impelled her, without the smallest present cause, to rap the child with the blade of the knife, now on her hand, now on her head, and now on her back, as if she found it quite impossible to stand so close to her without administering a few slight knocks.
-- A long suburb of red brick houses some with patches of garden-ground, where coal-dust and factory smoke darkened the shrinking leaves, and coarse rank flowers, and where the struggling vegetation sickened and sank under the hot breath of kiln and furnace, making them by its presence seem yet more blighting and unwholesome than in the town itself a long, flat, straggling suburb passed, they came, by slow degrees, upon a cheerless region, where not a blade of grass was seen to grow, where not a bud put forth its promise in the spring, where nothing green could live but on the surface of the stagnant pools, which here and there lay idly sweltering by the black road-side.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All the efforts of several hundred thousand people, crowded in a small space, to disfigure the land on which they lived; all the stone they covered it with to keep it barren; how so diligently every sprouting blade of grass was removed; all the smoke of coal and naphtha; all the cutting down of trees and driving off of cattle could not shut out the spring, even from the city.
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:
-- One, two!One, two!And through and throughThe vorpal blade went snicker-snack!He left it dead, and with its headHe went galumphing back.
-- They hadn't gone much farther before the blade of one of the oars got fast in the water and wouldn't come out again (so Alice explained it afterwards), and the consequence was that the handle of it caught her under the chin, and, in spite of a series of little shrieks of 'Oh, oh, oh!'
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 cleared the hilt of his cutlass and loosened the blade in the sheath; and all the time we were waiting there he kept swallowing as if he felt what we used to call a lump in the throat.
-- It did all our hearts good to see him spit in his hand, knit his brows, and make the blade sing through the air.
-- About half-way down the slope to the stockade, they were collected in a group; one held the light, another was on his knees in their midst, and I saw the blade of an open knife shine in his hand with varying colours in the moon and torchlight.
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:
-- The snow sprinted on either side, like sparks from a blade that is being sharpened, the whiteness round about ran swifter, swifter, in pure flame the white slope flew against her, and she fused like one molten, dancing globule, rushed through a white intensity.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field.
-- whipping out the sharp knife from his girdle; "every mother's son of ye draw his knife, and pull with the blade between his teeth.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was struck as by a blade with the miserable provision which was outside the pale of marriage.
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