for是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为prep. 为了; 给; 代替; 向; 支持conj. 因为,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《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was likely, for no one seemed to know the world more familiarly; there was no spot so secluded that he did not appear to have an intimate acquaintance with it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a suspicion in Elk Mills--now, in 1897, a dowdy red-brick village, smelling of apples-- that this brown-leather adjustable seat which Doc Vickerson used for minor operations, for the infrequent pulling of teeth and for highly frequent naps, had begun life as a barber's chair.
-- There was also a belief that its proprietor must once have been called Doctor Vickerson, but for years he had been only The Doc, and he was scurfier and much less adjustable than the chair.
-- He was an aged widower; for what he called "female fixings" he cared nothing; and the bedroom with its tottering bureau and its cot of frowsy blankets was cleaned only by Martin, in not very frequent attacks of sanitation.
-- This central room was at once business office, consultation-room, operating-theater, living-room, poker den, and warehouse for guns and fishing tackle.
-- The most unsanitary corner was devoted to the cast-iron sink, which was oftener used for washing eggy breakfast plates than for sterilizing instruments.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had shown signs of some obscure nervous disease be-fore his arrest and this now developed into violent attacks of epilepsy, from which he suffered for the rest of his life.
-- All his other gifts came to him from nature, this he won for himself and Crime and Punishmentthrough it he became great.'
-- This was not because he was cowardly and abject, quite the contrary; but for some time past he had been in an over-strained irritable condition, verging on hypochondria.
-- Nothing that any landlady could do had a real terror for him.
-- But to be stopped on the stairs, to be forced to listen to her trivial, ir-relevant gossip, to pestering demands for payment, threats and complaints, and to rack his brains for excuses, to pre-varicate, to lie no, rather than that, he would creep down the stairs like a cat and slip out unseen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know howsorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years'imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissingsome portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd ofthe creatures of his brain are going from him for ever.
-- It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know howsorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years' 8imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissingsome portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd ofthe creatures of his brain are going from him for ever.
-- I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in thenewspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas.
-- Consequently theadvertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss- for as to sherry, mypoor dear mother's own sherry was in the market then- and tenyears afterwards the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part ofthe country, to fifty members at half a crown a head, the winner tospend five shillings.
-- There is something strange to me, even now, in the reflection thathe never saw me; and something stranger yet in the shadowyremembrance that I have of my first childish associations with hiswhite gravestone in the churchyard, and of the indefinablecompassion I used to feel for it lying out alone there in the darknight, when our little parlour was warm and bright with fire andcandle, and the doors of our house were- almost cruelly, it seemedto me sometimes- bolted and locked against it.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct remembrance of her caresses; and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as gov-erness, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection.
-- The event had every promise of happiness for her friend.
-- Mr. Weston was a man of unexceptionable character, easy fortune, suitable age, and pleasant manners; and there was some satisfaction in considering with what self-denying, generous friendship she had always wished and promoted the match; but it was a black morning's work for her.
-- She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed: intelligent, well-informed, useful, gentle, know-ing all the ways of the family, interested in all its concerns, and peculiarly interested in herself, in every pleasure, ev-ery scheme of hers one to whom she could speak every thought as it arose, and who had such an affection for her as could never find fault.
-- She dearly loved her father, but he was no companion for her.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Far from the Madding CrowdPREFACEIn reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of "Far from the Madding Crowd," as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word "Wessex" from the pages of early English history, and give it a fictitious significance as the existing name of the district once included in that extinct kingdom.
-- Finding that the area of a single county did not afford a canvas large enough for this purpose, and that there were objections to an invented name, I disinterred the old one.
-- Moreover, the village called Weatherbury, wherein the scenes of the present story of the series are for the most part laid, would perhaps be hardly discernible by the explorer, without help, in any existing place nowadays; though at the time, comparatively recent, at which the tale was written, a sufficient reality to meet the descriptions, both of backgrounds and personages, might have been traced easily enough.
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