best是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 最好的(good和well的最高级) ad. 最好地; 最,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:
-- The Young Man's Best Companion, The Farrier's Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash's Dictionary, and Walkingame's Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities has done from a furlong of laden shelves.
-- Unfortunately for her boy, his best friends died; and he got then a situation as second clerk at a lawyer's in Casterbridge.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The best rooms in the house were on the first story, Mme.
-- If a stranger presented himself, she let him know that M. Goriot, one of the best known and most highly-respected merchants in Paris, had singled out her boarding-house for a residence.
-- With the impetuosity of his adventurous southern temper, he did all he could to cultivate an acquaintance with this lovely countess, making the best of his opportunities in the quadrille and during a waltz that she gave him.
-- Ah, what it is to be young, eager to see the world, greedily on the watch for any chance that brings you nearer the woman of your dreams, and behold two houses open their doors to you!To set foot in the Vicomtesse de Beauseant's house in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; to fall on your knees before a Comtesse de Restaud in the Chaussee d'Antin; to look at one glance across a vista of Paris drawing-rooms, conscious that, possessing sufficient good looks, you may hope to find aid and protection there in a feminine heart!To feel ambitious enough to spurn the tight-rope on which you must walk with the steady head of an acrobat for whom a fall is impossible, and to find in a charming woman the best of all balancing poles.
-- said Sylvie, sipping her coffee, "our places are the best in the Quarter, that I know.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his ser-vices.
-- On her deathbed the fortitude and benignity of this best of women did not desert her.
-- One of the best of these I entered, but I had hardly placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted.
-- ''How can I thank you, my best and only benefactor?
-- My father saw this change with pleasure, and he turned his thoughts to-wards the best method of eradicating the remains of my melancholy, which every now and then would return by fits, and with a devouring blackness overcast the approaching sunshine.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a savagely red land, blood-colored after rains, brick dust in droughts, the best cotton land in the world.
-- Ashley Wilkes was elected captain, because he was the best rider in theCounty and because his cool head was counted on to keep some semblance of order.
-- Moreover, Abel was the best shot in the Troop, a realsharpshooter who could pick out the eye of a squirrel at seventy-five yards, and, too, he knew all about living outdoors,building fires in the rain, tracking animals and finding water.
-- He was as proficient as any of the other young men in the usual County diversions, hunting,gambling, dancing and politics, and was the best rider of them all; but he differed from all the rest in that thesepleasant activities were not the end and aim of life to him.
-- They are queer folk, and it's best that they marry theircousins and keep their queerness to themselves."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When I saw him turning, I set my face towards home, and made the best use of my legs.
-- At last, I desperately considered that the thing I contemplated must be done, and that it had best be done in the least improbable manner consistent with the circumstances.
-- At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.
-- I told him I must go, but he took no notice, so I thought the best thing I could do was to slip off.
-- "I'm rather partial to Carols, myself, and that's the best of reasons for my never hearing any."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, I'm off now once for all: I like your cow now a great deal better than this smart beast that played me this trick, and has spoiled my best coat, you see, in this puddle; which, by the by, smells not very like a nosegay.
-- I have much the best of the bargain.
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