adorn是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 装饰, 佩带,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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then her desire had been to adorn herself with something, and the more adorned the better.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A range of hills lay against the sky in the horizon, and soon the rows of palms which adorn Bombay came distinctly into view.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For all I know, this picture may still adorn the parlour of the tumbledown little house somewhere near the Quai de la Joliette, and I suppose it could now be sold for fifteen hundred pounds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The remaining toasts were DOCTOR MELL;MRS. MICAWBER (who gracefully bowed her acknowledgmentsfrom the side-door, where a galaxy of beauty was elevated onchairs, at once to witness and adorn the gratifying scene); MRS.RIDGER BEGS (late Miss Micawber); MRS. MELL; WILKINSMICAWBER, ESQUIRE, JUNIOR (who convulsed the assembly byhumorously remarking that he found himself unable to returnthanks in a speech, but would do so, with their permission, in asong); MRS. MICAWBER'S FAMILY (well known, it is needless toremark, in the mothercountry), etc., etc., etc.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To adorn themselves with flowers, to dance, to sing in the sunlight: so much was left of the artistic spirit, and no more.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For instance, when I am at home, and dressed as I ought to be, I carry on my body the workmanship of a hundred tradesmen; the building and furniture of my house employ as many more, and five times the number to adorn my wife.'
-- The wise and virtu-ous Houyhnhnms, who abound in all excellences that can adorn a rational creature, have no name for this vice in their language, which has no terms to express any thing that is evil, except those whereby they describe the detestable qualities of their Yahoos, among which they were not able to distinguish this of pride, for want of thoroughly under-standing human nature, as it shows itself in other countries where that animal presides.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Cultivate in them, while there is yet time, the utmost graces of the fancies and affections, to adorn their lives so much in need of ornament; or, in the day of your triumph, when romance is utterly driven out of their souls, and they and a bare existence stand face to face, Reality will take a wolfish turn, and make an end of you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And I know that it belongs to your conscientious nature to try to become worthy of it, my dear Frederick, and to try to adorn it.
-- To be no discredit to it, but to adorn it.'
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