find是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. (found, found) 找到; 发现; 发觉; 感到,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《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "When I came into this room," continued the Invisible Man, after presenting the poker to the tip of the nose of each of his visitors, "I did not expect to find it occupied, and I expected to find, in addition to my books of memoranda, an outfit of clothing.
-- He bit the end savagely before Kemp could find a knife, and cursed when the outer leaf loosened.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I would not draw lots however, and in the night the sail-or whispered to Helmar again and again, and I sat in the bows with my clasp-knife in my hand, though I doubt if I had the stuff in me to fight; and in the morning I agreed to Helmar's proposal, and we handed halfpence to find the odd man.
-- You'll find this island an infernally rum place, I promise you.
-- I tried to find some hope in what I remem-bered of them.
-- I did not grasp his meaning then; afterwards I was to find that a great proportion of these Beast People had mal-formed hands, lacking sometimes even three digits.
-- The fern fronds he had stood between came swishing together, I pushed out of the brake after him, and was astonished to find him swinging cheerfully by one lank arm from a rope of creeper that looped down from the foliage overhead.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If ye find that the Bullock can toss you, or the heavy-browed Sambhur can gore; Ye need not stop work to inform us: we knew it ten seasons before.
-- Rann saw that the mon-keys were carrying something, and dropped a few hundred yards to find out whether their load was good to eat.
-- That happened to be the least ruined of any, and the big snake was delayed awhile before he could find a way up the stones.
-- The moon, o'er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between.
-- 'I suppose it is rather awful from your way of looking at it, but if you seals will come here year after year, of course the men get to know of it, and unless you can find an island where no men ever come you will always be driven.'
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:
-- The name has appeared to find favor, and all things considered, it may possibly be quite as well to let it stand, instead of going back to the House of Hanover for the appellation of our finest sheet of water.
-- 'If we journey with the troops, though we may find their presence irksome, shall we not feel better assurance of our safety?'
-- 'I am as ready to do the one as the other; but to fight the Iroquois 'tis necessary to find the skulkers; and to eat, 'tis necessary to get the game talk of the devil and he will come; there is a pair of the biggest antlers I have seen this season, moving the bushes below the hill!Now, Uncas,' he continued, in a half whisper, and laughing with a kind of inward sound, like one who had learned to be watchful, 'I will bet my charger three times full of powder, against a foot of wampum, that I take him atwixt the eyes, and nearer to the right than to the left.'
-- They are full of outlying Iroquois, and your mon-grel Mohawk knows where to find them too well to be my companion.'
-- In passing his gentler companions Heyward uttered a few words of encouragement, and was pleased to find that, though fatigued with the exercise of the day, they appeared to entertain no suspicion that their present em-barrassment was other than the result of accident.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Though many years have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I should not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom.
-- It was most in-geniously secured at vacant hours, by a *withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shut-ters; so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out, an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot.
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:
-- Robert Strickland has "interpreted" all the facts in his father's life which a dutiful son might find it inconvenient to remember must surely lead him in the fullness of time to the highest dignities of the Church.
-- I find myself in a position to throw light on just that part of his tragic career which has remained most obscure.
-- There was just that shadowiness about them which you find in people whose lives are part of the social organism, so that they exist in it and by it only.
-- I suppose he thought she could find that out for herself.
-- "MY DEAR AMY,"I think you will find everything all right in the flat.
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