lonely是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 孤独的, 寂寞的; 荒凉的, 人迹稀少的,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.
-- It was a great surprise to Scrooge, while listening to the moaning of the wind, and thinking what a solemn thing it was to move on through the lonely darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were secrets as profound as Death: it was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engaged, to hear a hearty laugh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So expressive it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that 55a famished traveller, wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness, would have remembered home and friends in such a tone before lying down to die.
-- Very 129little of these trades, or of a lonely lodger rumoured to live up-stairs, or of a dim coach-trimming maker asserted to have a counting-house below, was ever heard or seen.
-- First, the lonely boar-spears and knives of the chase had been reddened as of old; then, had 180 A tale of two citiesgleamed trenchant in the morning sunshine; now, doors and windows were thrown open, horses in their stables looked round over their shoulders at the light and fresh-ness pouring in at doorways, leaves sparkled and rustled at iron-grated windows, dogs pulled hard at their chains, and reared impatient to be loosed.
-- Within half an hour from the first starting, they were beyond the winking lamps, and the more than winking watchmen, and were out upon a lonely road.
-- For, in these times, as the mender of roads worked, soli-tary, in the dust, not often troubling himself to reflect that dust he was and to dust he must return, being for the most part too much occupied in thinking how little he had for supper and how much more he would eat if he had it in these times, as he raised his eyes from his lonely labour, and viewed the prospect, he would see some rough figure approaching on foot, the like of which was once a rari-323ty in those parts, but was now a frequent presence.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'The earth is hard and covered with snow; men cannot plant me now, and therefore I have been put up here under shelter till the spring-time comes!How thoughtful that is!How kind man is, after all!If it only were not so dark here, and so ter-ribly lonely!Not even a hare!And out in the woods it was so pleasant, when the snow was on the ground, and the hare leaped by; yes even when he jumped over me; but I did not like it then!It is really terribly lonely here!'
-- 'It is so lonely and melancholy here!But when one has been in a family circle one cannot accustom oneself to this life!I cannot bear it any longer!The whole day is so long, and the evenings are still longer!Here it is not at all as it is over the way at your home, where your fa-ther and mother spoke so pleasantly, and where you and all your sweet children made such a delightful noise.
-- Nay, how lonely the old man is do you think that he gets kisses?
-- 'How very, very lonely he must have been!'
-- Now they lived a very lonely and happy life; and as they had no children themselves, they had adopted a little com-mon snail, which they brought up as their own; but the little one would not grow, for he was of a common family; but the old ones, especially Dame Mother Snail, thought they could observe how he increased in size, and she begged fa-ther, if he could not see it, that he would at least feel the little snail's shell; and then he felt it, and found the good dame was right.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This lovely spring roused Levin still more, and strengthened him in his resolution of renouncing all his past and building up his lonely life firmly and independently.
-- The barking of dogs showed the carriage had reached the village, and all that was left was the empty fields all round, the village in front, and he himself isolated and apart from it all, wandering lonely along the deserted highroad.
-- At the bitterest moment of his lonely despair she came to him, and without waiting to be announced, walked straight into his study.
-- On getting back to her lonely rooms in the hotel she could not for a long while understand why she was there.
-- And there rose again before her imagination the cruel memory, that always tore her mother's heart, of the death of her last little baby, who had died of croup; his funeral, the callous indifference of all at the little pink coffin, and her own torn heart, and her lonely anguish at the sight of the pale little brow with its projecting temples, and the open, wondering little mouth seen in the coffin at the moment when it was being covered with the little pink lid with a cross braided on it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Occasionally, on Sundays or rainy days, he tried to read it, and longed for the laboratory; occasionally he thought of Madeline Fox, and became certain that he was devastatingly lonely for her.
-- Good doctors are fine-- often they are artists--but their trade, it is not for us lonely ones that work in labs.
-- Suddenly she was beside him, begging, "I've been so lonely for you, all week!"
-- He was sick lonely when he saw her off at the Union Station.
-- It'll be nice to have you with me in the scrap, because you aren't supposed to know that he expects to plan out everything for everybody and-- Oh, Sandy, I've been so lonely for you!Mother isn't really a bit sick, not the least bit, but they go on keeping me here.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The face he turned up to the troubled sky, the quiveringof his clasped hands, the agony of his figure, remain associatedwith that lonely waste, in my remembrance, to this hour.
-- I told him I was well convinced of it; and I hinted that I hoped thetime might even come, when he would cease to lead the lonely lifehe naturally contemplated now.
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