woman是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 妇女, 成年女子,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《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The woman left the town, took refuge with an independent rajah, and there carried out her self-devoted purpose."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Of course I don't suppose it'll make any difference to a bunch of wise galoots like you that some day you'll marry a nice bright little woman and ruin her life with your vices.
-- VII For all his devotion to Max Gottlieb's pessimistic view of the human intellect, Martin had believed that there was such a thing as progress, that events meant something, that people could learn something, that if Madeline had once admitted she was an ordinary young woman who occasionally failed, then she was saved.
-- He was an eminent scientist, and it was outrageous that he should have to endure impudence from a probationer--a singularly vulgar probationer, a thin and slangy young woman apparently from the West.
-- Even when, as advocate for Madeline, he pleaded that Leora was a trivial young woman who probably chewed gum in private and certainly was careless about her nails in public, her commonness was dear to the commonness that was in himself, valid as ambition or reverence, an earthy base to her gaiety as it was to his nervous scientific curiosity.
-- He dragged out a few sound but unimpassioned flatteries; he observed that Madeline was a handsome young woman and a sound English scholar; and while she gaped with disappointment at his lukewarmness, he got himself away, at ten.
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:
-- In a little while, the door was opened a tiny crack: the old woman eyed her visitor with evident distrust through the crack, and nothing could be seen but her little eyes, glittering in the darkness.
-- The old woman stood facing him in silence and looking inquiringly at him.
-- She was a diminutive, withered up old woman of sixty, with sharp malignant eyes and a sharp lit-tle nose.
-- The old woman coughed and groaned at every in-stant.
-- 'I remember, my good sir, I remember quite well your coming here,' the old woman said distinctly, still keeping her inquiring eyes on his face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How they affected my aunt, nobody knew; for immediatelyupon the separation she took her maiden name again, bought acottage in a hamlet on the sea-coast a long way off, establishedherself there as a single woman with one servant, and wasunderstood to live secluded, ever afterwards, in an inflexibleretirement.
-- We were welcomed by a very civil woman in a white apron, whomI had seen curtseying at the door when I was on Ham's back, abouta quarter of a mile off.
-- On seeing the Master enter, the old woman stopped with thebellows on her knee, and said something that I thought soundedlike 'My Charley!'
-- While Iwas yet in the full enjoyment of it, the old woman of the house saidto the Master'Have you got your flute with you?'
-- The coach jolts, I wake with astart, and the flute has come back again, and the Master at SalemHouse is sitting with his legs crossed, playing it dolefully, whilethe old woman of the house looks on delighted.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct remembrance of her caresses; and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as gov-erness, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection.
-- 'A straightforward, open-hearted man like Weston, and a rational, unaffected woman like Miss Taylor, may be safely left to manage their own concerns.
-- He had never been an unhappy man; his own temper had secured him from that, even in his first marriage; but his second must shew him how de-lightful a well-judging and truly amiable woman could be, and must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.
-- Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married.
-- And yet she was a happy woman, and a woman whom no one named without good-will.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Threepence had a definite value as money it was an appreciable infringement on a day's wages, and, as such, a higgling matter; but twopence "Here," he said, stepping forward and handing twopence to the gatekeeper; "let the young woman pass."
-- Oak knew her instantly as the heroine of the yellow waggon, myrtles, and looking-glass: prosily, as the woman who owed him twopence.
-- She was the young woman of the night before.
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