obey是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 服从, 顺从,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the submissive way of one long accustomed to obey under coercion, he ate and drank what they gave him to eat and drink, and put on the cloak and other wrappings, that they gave him to wear.
-- 'And has left me,' answered the nephew, 'bound to a sys-tem that is frightful to me, responsible for it, but powerless in it; seeking to execute the last request of my dear mother's lips, and obey the last look of my dear mother's eyes, which implored me to have mercy and to redress; and tortured by seeking assistance and power in vain.'
-- 'I willingly obey the orders of my Chief,' said The Ven-geance with alacrity, and kissing her cheek.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Passepartout, delighted that the young woman, who was very gracious to him, was going to continue the journey with them, went off at a brisk gait to obey his master's order.
-- Passepartout, having received his orders, had nothing to do but obey them.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As to how the officials were to become perfect executives, and how people were to be persuaded to obey them, he had no suggestions but only a beautiful faith.
-- He had expected Leora to wait for him, to obey his wishes, to understand without his saying them all the flattering things he had planned to say.
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:
-- 'Good evening, Alyona Ivanovna,' he began, trying to speak easily, but his voice would not obey him, it broke and shook.
-- 'It might be worse not to obey him,' said Zossimov on the stairs.
-- Human nature is not taken into account, it is excluded, it's not supposed to exist!They don't recognise that humanity, developing by a historical living process, will become at last a normal soci-ety, but they believe that a social system that has come out of some mathematical brain is going to organise all human-ity at once and make it just and sinless in an instant, quicker than any living process!That's why they instinctively dis-like history, 'nothing but ugliness and stupidity in it,' and they explain it all as stupidity!That's why they so dislike the living process of life; they don't want a living soul!The living soul demands life, the soul won't obey the rules of mechan-ics, the soul is an object of suspicion, the soul is retrograde!
-- I, of course, was only too pleased to obey her wishes, tried to appear disconcerted, embarrassed, in fact played my part not badly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hepointed to the washing-stand, which I had made out to be like Mrs.Gummidge, and motioned me with his head to obey him directly.
-- I obey the firstclause of the injunction by trying once more, but am not sosuccessful with the second, for I am very stupid.
-- Now, David, you understand me, and you know whatwill be the consequence if you fail to obey me to the letter.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The little thing threw herself at her father's feet and spoke up bravely; she said that she only persevered in her visits for her mother's sake; that she would obey him without a murmur, but that she begged him to read her poor dead mother's farewell letter.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Be happy, my friend; and if you obey me in this one request, remain satisfied that nothing on earth will have the power to interrupt my tranquillity.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She wassick now, her pregnancy making itself felt in many unpleasant ways, but she refused to obey Dr. Meade's commandsand stay in bed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- O, you must take the purse!We have no choice, you and I, but to obey our instructions.
-- I should have replied that Love was commonly reputed blind, but for the reason that I always was restrained--and this was not the least of my miseries--by a feeling that it was ungenerous to press myself upon her, when she knew that she could not choose but obey Miss Havisham.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The queen would have me sit upon one of these chairs, but I absolute-ly refused to obey her, protesting I would rather die than place a dishonourable part of my body on those precious hairs, that once adorned her majesty's head.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My uncle, nothing loath, hastened to obey this hospitable and friendly invitation.
-- Unable to understand what he meant, I turned to obey his commands.
-- But Hans appeared not to take the slightest interest in what was really a question of life and death for us all, but waited quite ready to obey the signal which should say go aloft, or to resume his desperate journey into the interior of the earth.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Why, if I must, I do it to obey you, Sir Clifford,' she said.
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