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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Don't flatter yourself, my boy,' said he; 'she's not for such as you; she's a princess, she is, and her name is Nastasia Philipovna Barashkoff, and she lives with Totski, who wishes to get rid of her because he's growing rather old fiftyfive or so and wants to marry a certain beauty, the loveliest woman in all Petersburg.'
-- The old woman there lectured me so that I left the house and went on a drinking tour round the public-houses of the place.
-- 'And would you marry a woman like that, now?'
-- She did not care for a brilliant marriage; she was emi-nently a woman calculated to soothe and sweeten the life of any man; decidedly pretty, if not absolutely handsome.
-- An entirely new and dif-ferent woman sat before him, between whom and the girl he had left in the country last July there seemed nothing in common.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He brought Briseis from the tent and gave her over to the heralds, who took her with them to the ships of the Achae-ans and the woman was loth to go.
-- Did you not from your a far country carry off a lovely woman wedded among a people of warriors to bring sorrow upon your father, your city, and your whole country, but joy to your enemies, and hang-dog shamefacedness to yourself?
-- Let him who shall be victorious and prove to be the better man take the woman and all she has, to bear them to his home, but let the rest swear to a solemn covenant of peace whereby you Trojans shall stay here in Troy, while the others go home to Argos and the land of the Achaeans.'
-- Let him who shall be victorious and prove to be the better man take the woman and all she has, to bear them to his own home, but let the rest swear to a solemn covenant of peace.'
-- When they saw Helen coming towards the tower, they said softly to one another, 'Small wonder that Trojans and Achaeans should endure so much and so long, for the sake of a woman so marvellously and divinely lovely.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Half-way across the road a woman screamed as something pushed by her; a dog, kicked apparently, yelped and ran howling into Huxter's yard, and with that the transit of the Invisible Man was accomplished.
-- Woman ill with terror!
-- It was an old woman from downstairs, who suspected me of vivisecting a drink-sodden old creature, with only a white cat to care for in all the world.
-- Behind them fluttered the old hag of a woman from downstairs.
-- "We crawled past Mudie's, and there a tall woman with five or six yellow-labelled books hailed my cab, and I sprang out just in time to escape her, shaving a railway van narrowly in my flight.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have already described the Ape-man, and there was a particularly hate-ful (and evil-smelling) old woman made of vixen and bear, whom I hated from the beginning.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'They are very like me,' said Mowgli, blowing into the pot as he had seen the woman do.
-- 'Let me look,' said a woman with heavy copper rings on her wrists and ankles, and she peered at Mowgli under the palm of her hand.
-- The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs.
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:
-- 'The light eyes can go back to the Horican, and tell the old chief what has been done, if the dark-haired woman will swear by the Great Spirit of her fathers to tell no lie.'
-- While she was shrink-ing within herself, in dread of having her ears wounded by some proposal still more shocking than the last, the voice of Magua answered, in its tones of deepest malignancy: 'When the blows scorched the back of the Huron, he would know where to find a woman to feel the smart.
-- Ah!Uncas, Un-cas, your behavior was more like that of a curious woman than of a warrior on his scent.'
-- Cora was in the act of speaking, with an intent to advise the woman to abandon the trifle, when the savage relinquished his hold of the shawl, and tore the screaming infant from her arms.
-- Without attending to this sudden change in the other's humor, the scout after musing a mo-ment continued: 'There is no woman in this wilderness could leave such a print as that, but the dark-hair or her sister.
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