spot是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 斑点; 地点v. 认出, 认清, 发现; 玷污, 弄脏,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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was in that very spot that Sarmiento, a Spaniard, came in 1581, with four hundred emigrants, to establish a colony.
-- "Then Robert must have disappeared on this side," said the Major, turning toward the mountain and pointing toward the right: "and I should judge," he added, "considering the time that has elapsed, that the spot where he fell is about two miles up.
-- When they reached the spot the bird was dead, and the body of Robert was quite concealed beneath his mighty wings.
-- Still farther away, a black spot almost invisible, already caught Wilson's eye.
-- To leave the American continent, wouldn't it be to go away from the very spot indicated by Harry Grant, from this very Patagonia so distinctly named in the document."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So excited and alarmed was he that I was compelled to go down to the spot where the animal had been and look around for it.
-- I followed the footsteps down the Yew Alley, I saw the spot at the moor-gate where he seemed to have wait-ed, I remarked the change in the shape of the prints after that point, I noted that there were no other footsteps save those of Barrymore on the soft gravel, and finally I carefully examined the body, which had not been touched until my arrival.
-- Baskerville sat for a long time, his eyes fixed upon it, and I read upon his eager face how much it meant to him, this first sight of that strange spot where the men of his blood had held sway so long and left their mark so deep.
-- 'Queer spot to choose, is it not?'
-- It is not to be wondered at, for time hangs heavily in this lonely spot to an active man like him, and she is a very fascinating and beau-tiful woman.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a spot there which was quite closed in and hidden from view by large trees; and to this spot the children used to come to me.
-- and to this spot Mrs. Epanchin determined to proceed without further delay.
-- The prince muttered that the spot was a lovely one.
-- Or if that were impossible he would like to be alone at home, on the terrace-without either Lebedeff or his chil-dren, or anyone else about him, and to lie there and think a day and night and another day again!He thought of the mountains-and especially of a certain spot which he used to frequent, whence he would look down upon the distant valleys and fields, and see the waterfall, far off, like a little silver thread, and the old ruined castle in the distance.
-- But there were other defenders for Nastasia on the spot by this time.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- From this spot then, with a voice that could be heard afar, he shouted to the Danaans, saying, 'Argives, shame on you cowardly creatures, brave in semblance only; where are now our vaunts that we should prove victorious the vaunts we made so vaingloriously in Lemnos, when we ate the flesh of horned cattle and filled our mixing-bowls to the brim?
-- Then Hector led the Trojans back from the ships, and held a council on the open space near the river, where there was a spot clear of corpses.
-- Hector could not force Ajax back and fire the ship, nor yet could Ajax drive Hector from the spot to which heaven had brought him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Dr. Kemp's scientific pursuits have made him a very observant man, and as he recrossed the hall, he noticed a dark spot on the linoleum near the mat at the foot of the stairs.
-- He went on upstairs, and then it suddenly occurred to him to ask himself what the spot on the linoleum might be.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At last, and luckily for him, a tremendous wave tossed him to the very spot where he wanted to be.
-- The idea of finding himself in so lonesome a spot made him so sad that he was about to cry, but just then he saw a big Fish swimming near-by, with his head far out of the water.
-- cried the boy, rubbing the spot where the Marionette had kicked him.
-- And today this good Fairy of mine, as soon as she saw me in danger of drowning, sent a thousand fishes to the spot where I lay.
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