well是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 好, 令人满意地; 很int. 哎呀, 好啦, 嗯,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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, as affording a glancing bird's eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and generations, including our own.
-- Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it would they let me since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one lodges in.
-- As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it may as well be related that I, for one, had no idea of so doing.
-- When I was a child, I well remember a somewhat similar circumstance that befell me; whether it was a reality or a dream, I never could entirely settle.
-- Nevertheless, a man like Queequeg you don't see every day, he and his ways were well worth unusual regarding.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the number of workhouse inmates got thin as well as the paupers; and the board were in ecstasies.
-- Mr. Gamfield smiled, too, as he perused the document; for five pounds was just the sum he had been wishing for; and, as to the boy with which it was encumbered, Mr. Gamfield, knowing what the dietary of the workhouse was, well knew he would be a nice small pattern, just the very thing for register stoves.
-- The board then proceeded to converse among themselves for a few minutes, but in so low a tone, that the words 'saving of expenditure,' 'looked well in the accounts,' 'have a printed report published,' were alone audible.
-- 'Nonsense, my good man,' said the undertaker, who was pretty well used to misery in all its shapes.
-- 'Oh!Charlotte,' said Mrs. Sowerberry: speaking as well as she could, through a deficiency of breath, and a sufficiency of cold water, which Noah had poured over her head and shoulders.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
-- I was sure you loved your girls too well to neglect such an acquaintance.
-- 'If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield,' said Mrs. Bennet to her husband, 'and all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing to wish for.'
-- Everybody said how well she looked; and Mr. Bingley thought her quite beautiful, and danced with her twice!Only think of THAT, my dear; he actually danced with her twice!and she was the only creature in the room that he asked a second time.
-- They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first pri-vate seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I came here as well as ever I was in my life; but to suspect me of the plague is to give me the plague.
-- The shadow in which she sat, falling like a gloomy veil across her forehead, accorded very well with the character of her beauty.
-- 'It is well for me that I never set my heart upon its hollow vanities.'
-- 'Well then, don't you be cowed.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It makes me cross, and my hands get so stiff, I can't practice well at all.'
-- The slippers went on at once, a new handkerchief was slipped into her pocket, well scented with Amy's cologne, the rose was fastened in her bosom, and the nice gloves were pronounced a perfect fit.
-- They looked very well in their sim-ple suits, Meg's in silvery drab, with a blue velvet snood, lace frills, and the pearl pin.
-- 'I like it well enough if there is plenty of room, and every-one is lively.
-- So Meg reclined, with rubbers well hidden, and Jo went blundering away to the dining room, which she found after going into a china closet, and opening the door of a room where old Mr. Gardiner was taking a little private refresh-ment.
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