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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a time to see a woman redden who was not given to reddening as a rule; not a point in the milkmaid but was of the deepest rose-colour.
-- The young woman came regularly to milk the healthy cow or to attend to the sick one, but never allowed her vision to stray in the direction of Oak's person.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her house (known in the neighborhood as the _Maison Vauquer_) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest.
-- The unwholesome corpulence of the little woman is produced by the life she leads, just as typhus fever is bred in the tainted air of a hospital.
-- Still, "she is a good woman at bottom," said the lodgers who believed that the widow was wholly dependent upon the money that they paid her, and sympathized when they heard her cough and groan like one of themselves.
-- If the delightful excitement of a ball had made the pale face glow with color; if the delights of a luxurious life had brought the color to the wan cheeks that were slightly hollowed already; if love had put light into the sad eyes, then Victorine might have ranked among the fairest; but she lacked the two things which create woman a second time--pretty dresses and love-letters.
-- But then he was on very good terms with the widow; he used to call her "mamma," and put his arm round her waist, a piece of flattery perhaps not appreciated to the full!The worthy woman might imagine this to be an easy feat; but, as a matter of fact, no arm but Vautrin's was long enough to encircle her.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The conscience of the woman was troubled; she began to think that the deaths of her favourites was a judgment from heaven to chastise her partiality.
-- The poor woman was very vacillating in her repentance.
-- The woman asked her what she did there, but she looked very strangely and only returned a confused and unintelligible answer.
-- After he had been employed thus about an hour, the young woman joined him and they entered the cottage together.
-- The young woman was again occupied in arranging the cottage, the old man walked before the cot-tage in the sun for a few minutes, leaning on the arm of the youth.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in lovewith any woman not herself, and the sight of India Wilkes and Stuart at the speaking had been too much for herpredatory nature.
-- Mammy emerged from the hall, a huge old woman with the small, shrewd eyes of an elephant.
-- Dilcey was head woman andmidwife at Twelve Oaks, and, since the marriage six months ago, Pork had deviled his master night and day to buyDilcey, so the two could live on the same plantation.
-- "She did, and a sweet quiet thing she is, with never a word to say for herself, like a woman should be.
-- She would have been a strikingly beautiful woman had there been any glow in her eyes, any responsive warmth inher smile or any spontaneity in her voice that fell with gentle melody on the ears of her family and her servants.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
-- "And last of all, Pip,--and this I want to say very serious to you, old chap,--I see so much in my poor mother, of a woman drudging and slaving and breaking her honest hart and never getting no peace in her mortal days, that I'm dead afeerd of going wrong in the way of not doing what's right by a woman, and I'd fur rather of the two go wrong the t'other way, and be a little ill-conwenienced myself.
-- "You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?"
-- Above all, she was a blessing to Joe, for the dear old fellow was sadly cut up by the constant contemplation of the wreck of his wife, and had been accustomed, while attending on her of an evening, to turn to me every now and then and say, with his blue eyes moistened, "Such a fine figure of a woman as she once were, Pip!"
-- the crying woman pleaded.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All the day long she flew about in the form of an owl, or crept about the country like a cat; but at night she always became an old woman again.
-- The bean said: 'I too have escaped with a whole skin, but if the old woman had got me into the pan, I should have been made into broth without any mercy, like my comrades.'
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