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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When Mrs. Hall went to clear away the stranger's lunch, her idea that his mouth must also have been cut or disfigured in the accident she supposed him to have suffered, was confirmed, for he was smoking a pipe, and all the time that she was in the room he never loosened the silk muffler he had wrapped round the lower part of his face to put the mouthpiece to his lips.
-- Yet it was not forgetfulness, for she saw he glanced at it as it smouldered out.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The following narrative was found among his papers by the undersigned, his nephew and heir, but unaccompanied by any definite request for publication.
-- I have the best of evidence for this assertion: I was one of the four men.
-- Constans, who was 'seen by the captain to jump into the gig,'* luck-ily for us and unluckily for himself did not reach us.
-- He came down out of the tangle of ropes under the stays of the smashed bowsprit, some small rope caught his heel as he let go, and he hung for a moment head downward, and then fell and struck a block or spar floating in the water.
-- I say lucky for us he did not reach us, and I might almost say luckily for himself; for we had only a small breaker of water and some soddened ship's biscuits with us, so sudden had been the alarm, so unprepared the ship for any disas-ter.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mowgli's Brothers Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we.
-- Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
-- 'For a wolf, no,' said Tabaqui, 'but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.
-- 'All thanks for this good meal,' he said, licking his lips.
-- He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.'
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:
-- While writing this book, fully a quarter of a century since, it occurred to us that the French name of this lake was too complicated, the American too common-place, and the Indian too unpronounceable, for either to be used familiarly in a work of fiction.
-- As every word uttered by Natty Bumppo was not to be received as rigid truth, we took the liberty of putting the 'Horican' into his mouth, as the substitute for 'Lake George.'
-- The name has appeared to find favor, and all things considered, it may possibly be quite as well to let it stand, instead of going back to the House of Hanover for the appellation of our finest sheet of water.
-- Near its southern termina-tion, it received the contributions of another lake, whose waters were so limpid as to have been exclusively selected by the Jesuit missionaries to perform the typical purifica-tion of baptism, and to obtain for it the title of lake 'du Saint Sacrement.'
-- It became, emphatically, the bloody arena, in which most of the battles for the mastery of the colonies were contested.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact, but merely advert to it, for the sake of being precise and authentic.
-- If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
-- Such is the general purport of this legendary supersti-tion, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
-- It is remarkable that the visionary propensity I have The Legend of Sleepy Hollowmentioned is not confined to the native inhabitants of the valley, but is unconsciously imbibed by every one who re-sides there for a time.
-- I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that popula-tion, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless coun-try, sweeps by them unobserved.
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:
-- THE MOON AND SIXPENCEChapter II confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary.
-- I suppose Velasquez was a better painter than El Greco, but custom stales one's admiration for him: the Cretan, sensual and tragic, proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifice.
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