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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But since you say so, I won't work at all this summer.
-- "Barney's" was a poolroom, a tobacco shop and, since Mohalis was dry by local option, an admirable blind-pig.
-- Since the torture of the coming lunch was inevitable, he wondered why he should go on trying to resist his punishment.
-- It has been humbled since by the supercilious modesty of the vast Hotel Thornleigh; dirty now is its tessellated floor and all the wild gilt tarnished, and in its ponderous leather chairs are torn seams and stogie ashes and horse-dealers.
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:
-- Since there are times when one absolutely must go somewhere!When my own daughter first went out with a yellow ticket, then I had to go 芒聙娄 (for my daughter has a yellow passport),' he add-ed in parenthesis, looking with a certain uneasiness at the young man.
-- But even so, I could not please her; and then I lost my place too, and that through no fault of mine but through changes in the office; and then I did touch it!芒聙娄 It will be a year and a half ago soon since we found ourselves at last after many wanderings and numerous calamities in this magnificent capital, adorned with innumerable monuments.
-- Since she has attained years of maturity, she has read other books of romantic ten-dency and of late she had read with great interest a book she got through Mr. Lebeziatnikov, Lewes' Physiology do you know it? and even recounted extracts from it to us: and that's the whole of her education.
-- 'Since then, sir,' he went on after a brief pause 'Since then, owing to an unfortunate occurrence and through in-formation given by evil- intentioned persons in all which Darya Frantsovna took a leading part on the pretext that she had been treated with want of respect since then my daughter Sofya Semyonovna has been forced to take a yel-low ticket, and owing to that she is unable to go on living with us.
-- 'To be sure,' says he, 'Semyon Zaharovitch, remembering your past ser-vices,' says he, 'and in spite of your propensity to that foolish weakness, since you promise now and since moreover we've got on badly without you,' (do you hear, do you hear;) 'and so,' says he, 'I rely now on your word as a gentleman.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They went into the parlour my mother had come from, the fire inthe best room on the other side of the passage not being lighted-not having been lighted, indeed, since my father's funeral; andwhen they were both seated, and Miss Betsey said nothing, mymother, after vainly trying to restrain herself, began to cry.
-- 'There have not been any since we have lived here,' said mymother.
-- Having issued this mandate with as muchpotentiality as if she had been a recognised authority in the houseever since it had been a house, and having looked out to confrontthe amazed Peggotty coming along the passage with a candle at thesound of a strange voice, Miss Betsey shut the door again, and satdown as before; with her feet on the fender, the skirt of her dresstucked up, and her hands folded on one knee.
-- It has since been considered almost a miracle that myaunt didn't shake him, and shake what he had to say out of him.
-- All the time wewere out, the two gentlemen smoked incessantly- which, I thought,if I might judge from the smell of their rough coats, they must havebeen doing, ever since the coats had first come home from thetailor's.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Ever since the day about four years ago that Miss Taylor and I met with him in Broadway Lane, when, be-cause it began to drizzle, he darted away with so much gallantry, and borrowed two umbrellas for us from Farmer Mitchell's, I made up my mind on the subject.
-- It was now some time since Miss Taylor had begun to in-fluence his schemes; but as it was not the tyrannic influence of youth on youth, it had not shaken his determination of never settling till he could purchase Randalls, and the sale of Randalls was long looked forward to; but he had gone steadily on, with these objects in view, till they were accom-plished.
-- Her father never went beyond the shrubbery, where two divisions of the ground sufficed him for his long walk, or his short, as the year varied; and since Mrs. Weston's marriage her ex-ercise had been too much confined.
-- 'I think, Harriet, since your acquaintance with us, you have been repeatedly in the company of some such very real gentlemen, that you must yourself be struck with the differ-ence in Mr. Martin.
-- 'Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Since then the appellation which I had thought to reserve to the horizons and landscapes of a merely realistic dream-country, has become more and more popular as a practical definition; and the dream-country has, by degrees, solidified into a utilitarian region which people can go to, take a house in, and write to the papers from.
-- Since he lived six times as many working-days as Sundays, Oak's appearance in his old clothes was most peculiarly his own the mental picture formed by his neighbours in imagining him being always dressed in that way.
-- The North Star was directly in the wind's eye, and since evening the Bear had swung round it outwardly to the east, till he was now at a right angle with the meridian.
-- From the contours of her figure in its upper part, she must have had a beautiful neck and shoulders; but since her infancy nobody had ever seen them.
-- He liked saying "Bathsheba" as a private enjoyment instead of whistling; turned over his taste to black hair, though he had sworn by brown ever since he was a boy, isolated himself till the space he filled in the public eye was contemptibly small.
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