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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- While he was thinking what to do, he saw the fairy had tak-en down one of the cages, and was making the best of her way off through the door.
-- 'If that be the case,' said the ass, 'we had better change our quarters, for our lodging is not the best in the world!'
-- So twelve fairies came, each with a high red cap on her head, and red shoes with high heels on her feet, and a long white wand in her hand: and after the feast was over they gathered round in a ring and gave all their best gifts to the little prin-cess.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their lan-guage; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory.
-- When I had finished my work, I desired the emperor to let a troop of his best horses twenty-four in number, come and exercise upon this plain.
-- As soon as they got into order they divided into two parties, per-formed mock skirmishes, discharged blunt arrows, drew their swords, fled and pursued, attacked and retired, and in short discovered the best military discipline I ever beheld.
-- Now, the Big-endian exiles have found so much credit in the emperor of Blefuscu's court, and so much private assistance and encouragement from their party here at home, that a bloody war has been car-ried on between the two empires for six-and-thirty moons, with various success; during which time we have lost forty capital ships, and a much a greater number of smaller ves-sels, together with thirty thousand of our best seamen and 53soldiers; and the damage received by the enemy is reckoned to be somewhat greater than ours.
-- But I defy the trea-surer, or his two informers (I will name them, and let them make the best of it) Clustril and Drunlo, to prove that any person ever came to me incognito, except the secretary Rel-dresal, who was sent by express command of his imperial majesty, as I have before related.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So, Mr. M'Choakumchild began in his best manner.
-- He did not speak again until they had walked some half-a-mile in silence, when he gravely broke out with: 'What would your best friends say, Louisa?
-- 'My mother left me to my grandmother,' said Bounderby; 'and, according to the best of my remembrance, my grandmother was the wickedest and the worst old woman that ever lived.
-- Then he asked me to fetch some of the stuff he used, for the little hurt he had had, and to get it at the best place, which was at the other end of town from there; and then, after kissing me again, he let me go.
-- I ha' lived under 't so long, for that I ha' had'n the pity and comforting words o' th' best lass living or dead.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To my notion the best part of his possessions was his god-daughter, Gretchen.
-- The prospect of going without food and sleep was not a promising one, so I determined to do my best to solve the mystery.
-- "This," said my uncle, "is one of the best maps of Iceland.
-- The instruments were of course of the best manufacture: 1.
-- As for myself I put together a few of my best Latin phrases and paid him the highest compliments I could.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nevertheless Michaelis had his apartment in Mayfair, and walked down Bond Street the image of a gentleman, for you cannot get even the best tailors to cut their low-down customers, when the customers pay.
-- Michaelis obviously wasn't an Englishman, in spite of all the tailors, hatters, barbers, booters of the very best quar-ter of London.
-- And she used all her aroused cheerfulness and satisfaction to stimulate Clif-ford, so that he wrote his best at this time, and was almost happy in his strange blind way.
-- With his uncanny lame instinct for pub-licity, he had become in four or five years one of the best known of the young 'intellectuals'.
-- I know it would be the best thing for me...marry and lead a regular life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was round and fresh and dimpled and spoilt, and there was in Pet an air of timidity and dependence which was the best weakness in the world, and gave her the only crowning charm a girl so pretty and pleasant could have been without.
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