warn是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 警告vi. 发出警告,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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'And also,' said Holmes, 'that someone is not ill-disposed towards you, since they warn you of danger.'
-- His wife had some inkling of his plans; but she had such a fear of her husband a fear founded upon brutal ill-treatment that she dare not write to warn the man whom she knew to be in danger.
-- She was ready to warn Sir Henry so far as she could without impli-cating her husband, and again and again she tried to do so.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have to warn you that the wind is rather violent--and I have no wish for you to expose yourself without necessary precautions."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He would have thought, had this introduction to his mother been brought about by him because he knew what she would say, and that he could thus place his position before a rival and loftily warn him off, without himself reposing a word of confidence in him?
-- If it should happen that you are a woman, who, from whatever cause, has a perverted delight in making a sister-woman as wretched as she is (I am old enough to have heard of such), I warn her against you, and I warn you against yourself.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She never saw Laurie mount guard in the hall to warn the servants away.
-- cried Jo, as Beth put out her hand as if to warn her off, and asked quick-ly, 'You've had the scarlet fever, havent't you?'
-- She meant to warn him that Lau-rie would not bear much restraint, and hoped he would be more forebearing with the lad.
-- 'He has promised to be very good today, and he can be perfectly elegant if he likes,' returned Amy, and gliding away to warn Hercules to beware of the dragon, which warning caused him to haunt the old lady with a devotion that nearly distracted her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I wish to warn thee.
-- "Oh!I was going to warn ye against but never mind, never mind it's all one, all in the family too; sharp frost this morning, ain't it?
-- Mr. Starbuck, look at the binnacle watch, and in three minutes from this present instant warn off all strangers: then brace forward again, and let the ship sail as before."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After a short return of the stupor in which he had been so long plunged, Oliver: urged by a creeping sickness at his heart, which seemed to warn him that if he lay there, he must surely die: got upon his feet, and essayed to walk.
-- By the advice of Mr. Giles, they all talked very loud, to warn any evil-disposed person outside, that they were strong in numbers; and by a master-stoke of policy, originating in the brain of the same ingenious gentleman, the dogs' tails were well pinched, in the hall, to make them bark savagely.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I shall not be able to keep you and so I warn you.
-- 'Your great men often are; and therefore I shall not take him at his word, as he might change his mind another day, and warn me off his grounds.'
-- 'You may well warn me against such an evil.
-- Yet in spite of all these temptations, let me warn my cousin Elizabeth, and yourself, of what evils you may incur by a precipitate closure with this gentleman's proposals, which, of course, you will be inclined to take immediate advan-tage of.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That such hints and notices are given us I believe few that have made any observation of things can deny; that they are certain discoveries of an invisible world, and a converse of spirits, we cannot doubt; and if the tendency of them seems to be to warn us of dan-ger, why should we not suppose they are from some friendly agent (whether supreme, or inferior and subordinate, is not the question), and that they are given for our good?
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He says: 'I was your father's friend, and I'm your friend; and I warn you as a friend, and an honest one that wants to protect you and keep you out of harm and trouble, to turn your backs on that scoundrel and have nothing to do with him, the ignorant tramp, with his idiotic Greek and Hebrew, as he calls it.
-- But I warn you all that a time 's coming when you're going to feel sick whenever you think of this day.'
-- 'But looky here, Tom, what do we want to WARN anybody for that something's up?
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But I warn you, my little dear, there's no more room in the wagon.
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