easy是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 容易的, 不费力的, 安逸的, 宽裕的,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was easy now for me to be alone.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nagaina was coiled up on the matting by Teddy's chair, within easy striking distance of Teddy's bare leg, and she was swaying to and fro, singing a song of triumph.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Though this sudden and startling movement of the Indian produced no sound from the other, in the surprise her veil also was allowed to open its folds, and betrayed an indescribable look of pity, admiration, and horror, as her dark eye followed the easy motions of the sav-age.
-- Here their progress was less interrupted; and the instant the guide perceived that the females could com-mand their steeds, he moved on, at a pace between a trot and a walk, and at a rate which kept the surefooted and pe-culiar animals they rode at a fast yet easy amble.
-- You have driven their tribes from the seashore, and would now believe what their enemies say, that you may sleep at night upon an easy pillow.
-- It was, however, easy to be seen, by the occasional gleams that shot across his swarthy visage, that it was only necessary to arouse his passions, in order to give full effect to the terrific device which he had adopted to -intimidate his enemies.
-- Once more the savage yells burst out of the woods, and the leaden hail whistled above the heads of the besieged, as if to confine them to a place where they might become easy victims to the enterprise of the warrior who had mounted the tree.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that -ingenious way which is commonly denominated 'by hook and by crook,' the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of the la-bor of headwork, to have a wonderfully easy life of it.
-- Balt Van Tassel was an easy indul-gent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There seemed to me something alarming in such easy delights.
-- It could not have been very easy to be bright and careless with that sudden secret in her heart, nor to give her attention to all the things that needed doing to get her children comfortably packed off.
-- But this was not an easy thing to do, for Strickland was not a fluent talker.
-- The MacAndrews, who were childless and in easy circumstances, arranged to undertake the care of the children, and Mrs. Strickland had only herself to provide for.
-- But I think my arrival at Tahiti would have driven out of my head matters of much more immediate importance to me, and even after a week I found it not easy to order myself soberly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Between the islet and the coast there only remained a narrow channel which would no doubt be easy to cross.
-- If we had a cart or a boat, it would be easy enough."
-- They now had only to make a fireplace and to prepare the supper an easy task.
-- The fire was lighted, and it was easy to preserve some embers.
-- It would be easy to kill a few of the pigeons which were flying by hundreds about the summit of the plateau, either with sticks or stones.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'It is easy to talk and sneer.
-- 'Very well,' said Mrs Quilp, nodding her head, 'as I said just now, it's very easy to talk, but I say again that I know that I'm sure Quilp has such a way with him when he likes, that the best looking woman here couldn't refuse him if I was dead, and she was free, and he chose to make love to her.
-- He has no sleep or rest, but that which he takes by day in his easy chair; for every night and nearly all night long he is away from home.'
-- Dick looked rather pale and foolish when he glanced at the direction, and still more so when he came to look at the inside, observing that it was one of the inconveniences of being a lady's man, and that it was very easy to talk as they had been talking, but he had quite forgotten her.
-- For, it was not the monotonous days unchequered by variety and uncheered by pleasant companionship, it was not the dark dreary evenings or the long solitary nights, it was not the absence of every slight and easy pleasure for which young hearts beat high, or the knowing nothing of childhood but its weakness and its easily wounded spirit, that had wrung such tears from Nell.
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