vice是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 罪恶; 不道德行为,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer in-telligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The pastor of the Jonathan Edwards Church touched up a sermon about Sin in High Places by a reference to "one who, while like a Czar he pretends to be safeguarding the city from entirely imaginary dangers, yet winks at the secret vice rampant in hidden places; who allies himself with the forces of graft and evil and the thugs who batten on honest but deluded Labor; one who cannot arise, a manly man among men, and say, 'I have a clean heart and clean hands.'"
-- No more than hearty business men in offices or fussy old men in villages are researchers free from the tedious vice of jovial commenting.
-- Stokes was appointed Surgeon General, vice Inchcape Jones, and he made an illegal assignment of Martin to St. Swithin's Parish, as medical officer with complete power.
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:
-- Ah, the vice one sees nowadays!And as likely as not she belongs to gen-tlefolk too, poor ones maybe芒聙娄.
-- 'Ah, the vice one sees nowadays!'
-- Can it be that she has only been able to bear it till now, because vice has begun to be less loathsome to her?
-- 'Oh, very well, for vice then.
-- In this vice at least there is something permanent, founded indeed upon nature and not dependent on fantasy, something present in the blood like an ever-burning ember, for ever setting one on fire and, maybe, not to be quickly extinguished, even with years.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'My dear Strong,' said Mr. Wickfield in atremulous voice, my good friend, I needn't tell you that it has beenmy vice to look for some one master motive in everybody, and totry all actions by one narrow test.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was by turns all the most mysterious brood of vice and shame and misery; yet, however vile his life might be, the feeling of repulsion which he aroused in others was not so strong that he must be banished from their society--he paid his way.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I then thought that my father would be unjust if he as-cribed my neglect to vice or faultiness on my part, but I am now convinced that he was justified in conceiving that I should not be altogether free from blame.
-- Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each oth-er's blood.
-- For a long time I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments; but when I heard details of vice and 140 Frankensteinbloodshed, my wonder ceased and I turned away with dis-gust and loathing.
-- If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice 177must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a thing of whose existence everyone will be ignorant.
-- My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you can-not even imagine.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And it must be owned, that seven months were a sufficient time to correct every vice and folly to which Yahoos are subject, if their na-tures had been capable of the least disposition to virtue or wisdom.
-- I then descended to the courts of justice; over which the judges, those venerable sages and interpreters of the law, pre-sided, for determining the disputed rights and properties of men, as well as for the punishment of vice and protection of innocence.
-- And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all man-kind.
-- Neither could I be wholly unmoved, after comparing the living with the dead, when I considered how all these pure native virtues were prostituted for a piece of money by their grand-chil-dren; who, in selling their votes and managing at elections, have acquired every vice and corruption that can possibly be learned in a court.
-- Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine; whether whistling be a vice or a vir-tue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire; what is the best colour for a coat, whether black, white, red, or gray; and whether it should be long or short, narrow or wide, dirty or clean; with many more.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This vicious assumption of honesty in dishonesty a vice so dangerous, so deadly, and so common seemed, he observed, a little to impress her in his favour.
-- Careless fellow as I am, I am not so indifferent, Mrs. Bounderby, as to be regardless of this vice in your brother, or inclined to consider it a venial offence.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For what says the Captain, if I quote him correctly and if not,' with a light-comedy touch of his double eye-glass on his companion's shoulder, 'my learned friend will set me right:"Since laws were made for every degree,To curb vice in others as well as in me,I wonder we ha'n't better companyUpon Tyburn Tree!"'
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