literally是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 照字义地, 逐字地,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《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- FACED these people, facing my fate in them, single-I handed now, literally single-handed, for I had a broken arm.
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:
-- Exerting his renovated powers to their utmost, he was yet filling the arches of the cave with long and full tones, when a yell burst into the air without, that instantly stilled his pious strains, choking his voice suddenly, as though his heart had literally bounded into the passage of his throat.
-- Heyward perceived, in truth, that the younger Indian had thrown his form on the side of the hillock while they were talking, like one who sought to make the most of the time allotted to rest, and that his example had been followed by David, whose voice literally 'clove to his jaws,' with the fever of his wound, heightened, as it was, by their toilsome march.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He literally looks as if he had been varnished all over.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were eighteen cars, and all, except the one reserved for the authorities, were literally packed with prisoners.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The admirable fellow literally slaved in my interest, and so, I may say, did everyone in Bristol, as soon as they got wind of the port we sailed for treasure, I mean.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It literally tore through the water.
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:
-- "There was absolutely nowhere to sit down, nowhere, a man just above sang 'Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep' the whole way; he was blind and he had a small organ, one of those portable organs, and he expected money; so you can imagine what that was like; there came a constant smell of luncheon from below, and puffs of hot oily machinery; the journey took hours and hours and hours; and for miles, literally for miles, dreadful boys ran with us on the shore, in that awful Thames mud, going in up to the waist they had their trousers turned back, and they went up to their hips in that indescribable Thames mud, their faces always turned to us, and screaming, exactly like carrion creatures, screaming ''Ere y'are sir, 'ere y'are sir, 'ere y'are sir,' exactly like some foul carrion objects, perfectly obscene; and paterfamilias on board, laughing when the boys went right down in that awful mud, occasionally throwing them a ha'penny.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a dauntless stander-of-mast-heads; who was not to be driven from his place by fogs or frosts, rain, hail, or sleet; but valiantly facing everything out to the last, literally died at his post.
-- The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted, and marbled with the same shrouded hue, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive appellation of the White Whale; a name, indeed, literally justified by his vivid aspect, when seen gliding at high noon through a dark blue sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam, all spangled with golden gleamings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Oho!It couldn't have come about better!The old man crossed his arms upon his breast; and, drawing his head and shoulders into a heap, literally hugged himself for joy.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was literally true that if a lover of fine clothes secured a new suit, it was sure to have its first airing on Broadway.
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