reverence是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 尊敬, 崇敬,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:
-- While her mother was attacking her father, she tried to restrain her mother, so far as filial reverence would allow.
-- Anna found it difficult now to recall the feeling of almost awe-stricken reverence which she had at first entertained for these persons.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- VII Angus Duer's studiousness and his reverence for correct manners were alike offended by Clif's bawdy singing, Clif's howling conversation, Clif's fondness for dropping things in people's soup, and Clif's melancholy inability to keep his hands washed.
-- But Martin's reverence for Dean Silva was counterbalanced by his detestation for Dr. Roscoe Geake, professor of otolaryngology.
-- They looked up, arms about each other, squealing softly, and in reverence he grunted, "There--by--jiminy!"
-- She was placidly astonished when he clumped away with none of the obedient reverence which any example of cultured American womanhood has a right to expect from all males, even foreigners.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The reverence that I had for his grey head, was mingled withcommiseration for his faith in those who were treacherous to him,and with resentment against those who injured him.
-- I observed, however,that Mr. Spenlow's proctorial gown and stiff cravat took Peggottydown a little, and inspired her with a greater reverence for the manwho was gradually becoming more and more etherealised in myeyes every day, and about whom a reflected radiance seemed tome to beam when he sat erect in Court among his papers, like alittle lighthouse in a sea of stationery.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What Troy did was to sink upon his knees with an indefinable union of remorse and reverence upon his face, and, bending over Fanny Robin, gently kissed her, as one would kiss an infant asleep to avoid awakening it.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a show of grati-tude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doting fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behav-iour to her.
-- I saw plainly that he was surprised, but he never attempted to draw my secret from me; and although I loved him with a mixture of affection and reverence that knew no bounds, yet I could never persuade myself to confide to him that event which was so often present to my recollection but which I feared the detail to another would only impress more deeply.
-- 'I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but al-low me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half-painful self-deceit, to call them).'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Accept, dear Madam, thistoken of my reverence for your courage and do not think that your sacrifice has been in vain, for this ring has beenredeemed at ten times its value.
-- But when the news trickled back that Lee had issued orders that no private property in Pennsylvania should betouched, that looting would be punished by death and that the army would pay for every article it requisitioned then itneeded all the reverence the General had earned to save his popularity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the fights were over, Biddy gave out the number of a page, and then we all read aloud what we could,--or what we couldn't--in a frightful chorus; Biddy leading with a high, shrill, monotonous voice, and none of us having the least notion of, or reverence for, what we were reading about.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce ev-ery thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memo-ry; although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human species.
-- I was immediately produced, and placed upon a table, where I walked as I was commanded, drew my hanger, put it up again, made my reverence to my master's guest, asked him in his own language how he did, and told him HE WAS WELCOME, just as my little nurse had instructed me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He made a sort of reverence to them by holding up his arms, and stood for the moment in that attitude; not speaking until they slowly dropped at his sides.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ultimately he was inclined to think that there was no reverence in the man, no sentiment in the great creature.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Our Pickwick, always at his post, With reverence we greet, As, spectacles on nose, he reads Our well-filled weekly sheet.
-- Mr. Tudor's uncle had married an English lady who was third cousin to a living lord, and Amy regarded the whole family with great re-spect, for in spite of her American birth and breeding, she possessed that reverence for titles which haunts the best of us that unacknowledged loyalty to the early faith in kings which set the most democratic nation under the sun in fer-ment at the coming of a royal yellow-haired laddie, some years ago, and which still has something to do with the love the young country bears the old, like that of a big son for an imperious little mother, who held him while she could, and let him go with a farewell scolding when he rebelled.
-- But her reverence for genius received a severe shock that night, and it took her some time to recover from the discovery that the great creatures were only men and women after all.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of any possible danger from encountering them; that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small application of time and trouble in order to kill and boil.
-- Whether marching amid his aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his circumambient subjects browsing all around at the horizon, the White Steed gallopingly reviewed them with warm nostrils reddening through his cool milkiness; in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to the bravest Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe.
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