rag是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 抹布, 破布, 碎布,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:
-- The hands of the man who sawed the wood, left red marks on the billets; and the forehead of the woman who nursed her baby, was stained with the stain of the old rag she wound about her head again.
-- Hunger was pushed out of the tall houses, in the wretched clothing that hung upon poles and lines; Hunger was patched into them with straw and rag and wood and paper; Hunger was repeated in every frag-ment of the small modicum of firewood that the man sawed off; Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat.
-- After looking doubtfully at it, two or three times, as if to be sure that it was really there, he laid down his work, put his hand to his neck, and took off a blackened string with a scrap of folded rag attached to 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:
-- A long time passed away, then the collar came into the rag chest at the paper mill; there was a large company of rags, the fine by themselves, and the coarse by themselves, just as it should be.
-- It would be well for us to beware, that we may not act in a similar manner, for we can never know if we may not, in the course of time, also come into the rag chest, and be made into white paper, and then have our whole life's history printed on it, even the most secret, and be obliged to run about and tell it ourselves, just like this collar.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He saw to it that the lovers should not have a chance for a good-night kiss; and until Mr. Tozer called down the hall, at seven minutes after ten, "You going to stay up and chew the rag the whole blessed night, Bert?"
-- Do you think you're going to make strangers believe Wheatsylvania is a metropolis like New York or Jimtown by hanging a dusty rag behind a secondhand tin Lizzie?"
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:
-- Rag pickers and coster-mongers of all kinds were crowding round the taverns in the dirty and stinking courtyards of the Hay Market.
-- He folded this strip in two, took off his wide, strong summer overcoat of some stout cotton material (his only outer garment) and began sewing the two ends of the rag on the inside, under the left armhole.
-- He wet-ted the rag and rubbed the boots.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The heavy mahogany table and sideboards, themassive silver, the bright rag rugs on the shining floor were all in their accustomed places, just as if nothing hadhappened.
-- The cream-colored walls glowed withlight and the depths of the mahogany furniture gleamed deep red like wine, while the floor glistened as if it were glass,except where the rag rugs covered it and they were spots of gay color.
-- The floors were glistening and bare except for a few bright rag rugs,and the white walls unornamented save for one corner which Melanie had fitted up as a shrine.
-- Uncle Henry wiped his wet feet on the rag rug and groaned as he drew on his tattered shoes.
-- In her hurry she slipped on the rag rug and fell to the floor with a jolt but leaped up so quickly she wasnot even aware of the pain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head.
-- "No," said he; "not till it got about that there was no protection on the premises, and it come to be considered dangerous, with convicts and Tag and Rag and Bobtail going up and down.
-- Why I hoarded up this last wretched little rag of the robe of hope that was rent and given to the winds, how do I know?
-- "More than that," said he, folding his arms on the table again, "I won't have a rag of you, I won't have a bone of you, left on earth.
-- Let him 'ware them, when he's lost his nevvy!Let him 'ware them, when no man can't find a rag of his dear relation's clothes, nor yet a bone of his body.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They went into the living-room, where a baby was sit-ting on the rag hearth rug, and the table was roughly set for tea.
-- It sat among cushions and was sur-rounded with rag dolls and other toys in modern excess.
-- But when he came back after dark, he found the house broken into, so he went upstairs to see what she'd done, and he found her in bed without a rag on her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such threadbare coats and trousers, such fusty gowns and shawls, such squashed hats and bonnets, such boots and shoes, such umbrellas and walking-sticks, never were seen in Rag Fair.
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