since是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为prep. 自从conj. 自从; 因为, 既然ad. 后来,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer.
-- Let it also be borne in mind that Scrooge had not bestowed one thought on Marley, since his last mention of his seven years' dead partner that afternoon.
-- Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs Cratchit since their marriage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is fifteen years since we since I came last from France.'
-- They hanged at Tyburn, in those days, so the street out-side Newgate had not obtained one infamous notoriety that has since attached to it.
-- He had now to attend while Mr. Stryver fitted the prisoner's case on the jury, like a compact suit of clothes; showing them how the patriot, Barsad, was a hired spy and traitor, an unblush-ing trafficker in blood, and one of the greatest scoundrels upon earth since accursed Judas which he certainly did look rather like.
-- 'I don't wonder at it; it's not so long since you were pretty far advanced on your way to another.
-- 'Since I must say so, I know it.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The swineherd that is to say the Prince, for no one knew that he was other than an ill-favored swineherd, let not a day pass without working at something; he at last con-structed a rattle, which, when it was swung round, played all the waltzes and jig tunes, which have ever been heard since the creation of the world.
-- Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds.
-- 'tis a long time since I have thought on those times.
-- He sat beside Gerda, for he could not bear riding backwards; the other Raven stood in the doorway,and flapped her wings; she could not accompany Gerda, because she suffered from headache since she had had a fixed appointment and ate so much.
-- Things have gone on well with me since I was last with you.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Since then she had refused to see her husband.
-- I have come to look very differently and more charitably on what is called infamous since brother Nikolay has become what he is...you know what he did..." "Oh, it's awful, awful!"
-- "It's a long while since we've seen you here, sir," said the attendant, supporting his foot, and screwing on the heel of the skate.
-- The panics that had been lived through, the thoughts that had been brooded over, the money that had been wasted, and the disputes with her husband over marrying the two elder girls, Darya and Natalia!Now, since the youngest had come out, she was going through the same terrors, the same doubts, and still more violent quarrels with her husband than she had over the elder girls.
-- "My words must make a deep impression on you, since you remember them so well," said Levin, and suddenly conscious that he had said just the same thing before, he reddened.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Since he had abandoned his own country for England, taking service as a valet, he had in vain searched for a master after his own heart.
-- The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago.
-- Among the passengers was a number of officials and military officers of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or commanding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company: for the sub-lieutenants get 280 pounds, brigadiers, 2,400 pounds, and generals of divisions, 4,000 pounds.
-- This was a gain to Phileas Fogg of two days since his departure from London, and he calmly entered the fact in the itinerary, in the column of gains.
-- He was at this moment calculating in his mind the number of hours spent since his departure from London, and, had it been in his nature to make a useless demonstration, would have rubbed his hands for satisfaction.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even the Reverend Ira Hinkley, since he had witnessed the horrors of the midnight before, went his ways ignoring the crime.
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