health是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 健康, 健康状况; 卫生,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:
-- The health of the expedition remained satisfactory; horses and cattle did their task cheerily.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Their evidence, corroborated by that of several friends, tends to show that Sir Charles's health has for some time been impaired, and points especially to some affection of the heart, manifesting itself in changes of colour, breathlessness, and acute attacks of nervous depression.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At first I was only just not absolutely dull; then my health began to improve then every day became dear-er and more precious to me, and the longer I stayed, the dearer became the time to me; so much so that I could not help observing it; but why this was so, it would be difficult to say.'
-- Well, I can understand that if I were to make an attempt upon my own life while in the enjoyment of full health and vigour my life which might have been 'useful,' etc., etc. morality might reproach me, according to the old routine, for disposing of my life without permission or whatever its tenet may be.
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:
-- When this necessary, and, happily, grateful duty had been performed, each of the foresters stooped and took a long and parting draught at that solitary and silent spring*, around which and its sister fountains, within fifty years, the wealth, beauty and talents of a hemisphere were to assemble in throngs, in pursuit of health and pleasure.
-- 'Tis just the length and breadth, too!look at it, Sagamore; you measured the prints more than once, when we hunted the varmints from Glenn's to the health springs.'
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:
-- His health will never stand it."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Oliver had long since grown stout and healthy; but health or sickness made no difference in his warm feelings of a great many people.
-- How often did Oliver start from his bed that night, and stealing out, with noiseless footstep, to the staircase, listen for the slightest sound from the sick chamber!How often did a tremble shake his frame, and cold drops of terror start upon his brow, when a sudden trampling of feet caused him to fear that something too dreadful to think of, had even then occurred!And what had been the fervency of all the prayers he had ever muttered, compa red with those he poured forth, now, in the agony and passion of his supplication for the life and health of the gentle creature, who was tottering on the deep grave's verge!
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Had she found Jane in any apparent danger, Mrs. Ben-net would have been very miserable; but being satisfied on seeing her that her illness was not alarming, she had no wish of her recovering immediately, as her restoration to health would probably remove her from Netherfield.
-- 'Her indifferent state of health unhappily prevents her being in town; and by that means, as I told Lady Catherine one day, has deprived the British court of its brightest or-naments.
-- As for my fair cousins, though my absence may not be long enough to render it necessary, I shall now take the liberty of wishing them health and happiness, not ex-cepting my cousin Elizabeth.'
-- She hated having visitors in the house while her health was so indifferent, and lovers were of all people the most disagreeable.
-- He took leave of his relations at Longbourn with as much solemni-ty as before; wished his fair cousins health and happiness again, and promised their father another letter of thanks.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy view I had of being a rich and thriving man in my new plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate desire of rising faster than the nature of the thing admitted; and thus I cast myself down again into the deepest gulf of human misery that ever man fell into, or perhaps could be consistent with life and a state of health in the world.
-- I consulted several things in my situation, which I found would he proper for me: 1st, health and fresh water, I just now mentioned; 2ndly, shelter from the heat of the sun; 3rdly, security from ravenous creatures, whether man or beast; 4thly, a view to the sea, that if God sent any ship in sight, I might not lose any advantage for my deliverance, of which I was not willing to banish all my expectation yet.
-- and that now I had all these to suf-ficient quantity, and was in a fair way to provide myself in such a manner as to live without my gun, when my ammu-nition was spent: so that I had a tolerable view of subsisting, without any want, as long as I lived; for I considered from the beginning how I would provide for the accidents that might happen, and for the time that was to come, even not only after my ammunition should be spent, but even after my health and strength should decay.
-- My condition began now to be, though not less miserable as to my way of living, yet much easier to my mind: and my thoughts being directed, by a constant reading the Scrip-ture and praying to God, to things of a higher nature, I had a great deal of comfort within, which till now I knew noth-ing of; also, my health and strength returned, I bestirred myself to furnish myself with everything that I wanted, and make my way of living as regular as I could.
-- I learned from it also this, in particular, that being abroad in the rainy season was the most pernicious thing to my health that could be, especially in those rains which came attended with storms and hurricanes of wind; for as the rain which came in the dry season was almost al-ways accompanied with such storms, so I found that rain was much more dangerous than the rain which fell in Sep-tember and October.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Impatient in this situation to be doing something that might lead to her sister's relief, Elinor resolved to write the next morning to her mother, and hoped by awakening her fears for the health of Marianne, to procure those inquiries which had been so long delayed; and she was still more eagerly bent on this measure by perceiving after breakfast on the morrow, that Marianne was again writing to Willoughby, for she could not suppose it to be to any other person.
-- said her brother to Colonel Brandon, in a low voice, as soon as he could secure his attention, "She has not such good health as her sister, she is very nervous, she has not Elinor's constitution; and one must allow that there is something very trying to a young woman who HAS BEEN a beauty in the loss of her personal attractions.
-- Willing therefore to delay the evil hour, she resolved to wait till her sister's health were more secure, before she appointed it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He talked around about investments for fully three-quarters of an hour with the proprietor, who maintained that his health was poor, and that was the reason he wished a partner.
-- He had saved and counted until his health was affected.
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