scrap是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 碎片, 碎屑; 少许, 少量,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lord Glenarvan examined them attentively for a few minutes, turning them over on all sides, holding them up to the light, and trying to decipher the least scrap of writing, while the others looked on with anxious eyes.
-- "But that is a valuable scrap of information," said John Mangles.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Left to himself at the cross-roads, the prince glanced around him, quickly crossed the road towards the lighted window of a neighbouring house, and unfolded a tiny scrap of paper which he had held clasped in his right hand during the whole of his conversation with the general.
-- I'm not afraid of you; besides, you'll hardly believe it, I feel as though I really didn't care a scrap one way or the other, just now! And-and-and as you are a capital fellow, I am convinced of that, I dare say we really shall end by being good friends.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was the fact that all his forehead above his blue glasses was covered by a white bandage, and that another covered his ears, leaving not a scrap of his face exposed excepting only his pink, peaked nose.
-- Kemp read every scrap of the report and sent his housemaid out to get everyone of the morning papers she could.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And the sailor pointed to a great white rag, caught in the top of the pine, a fallen scrap of which the dog had brought to them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the midst of this atmosphere, which must infallibly have smothered any other man, Mr Quilp passed the evening with great cheerfulness; solacing himself all the time with the pipe and the case-bottle; and occasionally entertaining himself with a melodious howl, intended for a song, but bearing not the faintest resemblance to any scrap of any piece of music, vocal or instrumental, ever invented by man.
-- The fact of their joint desertion of the office was made known to all comers by a scrap of paper in the hand-writing of Mr Swiveller, which was attached to the bell-handle, and which, giving the reader no clue to the time of day when it was first posted, furnished him with the rather vague and unsatisfactory information that that gentleman would 'return in an hour.'
-- It was easy to find the key belonging to the outer door, for each was labelled on a scrap of yellow parchment.
-- By this time, I should say,' added Richard, getting his left cheek into profile, and looking complacently at the reflection of a very little scrap of whisker in the looking-glass; 'by this time, I should say, the iron has entered into her soul.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Further, I threw a scrap of paper into the throat of one, and, instead of fluttering slowly down, it was at once sucked swiftly out of sight.
-- I did so, and eking out the flicker with a scrap of paper from my pocket, I made good my retreat to the narrow tunnel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Half an hour after breakfast next morning, Mr. Bumble entered the shop; and supporting his cane against the counter, drew forth his large leathern pocket-book: from which he selected a small scrap of paper, which he handed over to Sowerberry.
-- 'Bayton,' said the undertaker, looking from the scrap of paper to Mr. Bumble.
-- 'At nine in the evening,' said the stranger, producing a scrap of paper, and writing down upon it, an obscure address by the water-side, in characters that betrayed his agitation; 'at nine in the evening, bring her to me there.
-- 'Only to ask a question,' said the other, pointing to the scrap of paper.
-- 'The place should be somewhere here,' said Bumble, consulting a scrap of paper he held in his hand.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser Chapter I THE MAGNET ATTRACTING--A WAIF AMID FORCES When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And so he went a-mooning on and on, liking to hear himself talk, and every little while he fetched in his funeral orgies again, till the duke he couldn't stand it no more; so he writes on a little scrap of paper, 'OBSEQUIES, you old fool,' and folds it up, and goes to goo-gooing and reaching it over people's heads to him.
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