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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "It's all very well for you to laugh, but I tell you I was so startled, I hit his cuff hard, and turned around, and cut out of the room I left him " Cuss stopped.
-- "I'll surrender," cried the stranger, though he had Jaffers down, and in another moment he stood up panting, a strange figure, headless and handless for he had pulled off his right glove now as well as his left.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken cap-tain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the ves-sel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disappeared from those seas (with a consider-able amount of copra aboard), sailing to its unknown fate from Bayna in December, 1887, a date that tallies entirely with my uncle's story.
-- The longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up eighteen days after by H. M. gunboat 'Myrtle,' and the story of their terrible privations has become quite as well known as the far more horrible 'Medusa' case.
-- I gossiped as well as I could of this and that.
-- Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe I have thought since I could have stood it well enough.
-- I had even a certain wish to encounter Moreau face to face; and as I had waded into the water, I remembered that if I were too hard pressed at least one path of escape from torment still lay open to me, they could not very well prevent my drowning myself.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, Tabaqui knew as well as anyone else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces.
-- 'It was well done,' said Akela.
-- 'Well are ye called the Free People!'
-- The boy could climb almost as well as he could swim, and swim almost as well as he could run.
-- He is wise and well taught, and above all he has the eyes that make the Jungle-People afraid.
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:
-- There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opin-ion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it.
-- The name has appeared to find favor, and all things considered, it may possibly be quite as well to let it stand, instead of going back to the House of Hanover for the appellation of our finest sheet of water.
-- Accident, or one of those un-accountable freaks which nature sometimes plays in the animal world, gave rise to a breed of horses which were once well known in America, and distinguished by their habit of pacing.
-- You might as well expect the river to lie still on the brink of those black rocks a mile above us, though your own ears tell you that it is tumbling over them at this very moment.'
-- The woods are full of deer-paths which run to the streams and licks, places well known to every-body; nor have the geese done their flight to the Canada waters altogether!
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was a native of Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters.
-- A great elm tree spread its broad branches over it, at the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the softest and sweet-est water, in a little well formed of a barrel; and then stole sparkling away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows.
-- Farther on he beheld great fields of Indian corn, with its golden ears peeping from their leafy coverts, and holding out the promise of cakes and hasty- pudding; and the yellow pumpkins lying beneath them, turning up their fair round bellies to the sun, and giving ample prospects of the most luxurious of pies; and anon he passed the fragrant buckwheat fields breathing the odor of the beehive, and as he beheld them, soft anticipations stole over his mind of dainty slap-jacks, well buttered, and garnished with hon-ey or treacle, by the delicate little dimpled hand of Katrina Van Tassel.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Fortunately, there is no need for me to risk the adventure, since my friend, Mr. Edward Leggatt, an able writer as well as an admirable painter, has exhaustively discussed Charles Strickland's work in a little book芒聭麓 which is a charming example of a style, for the most part, less happily cultivated in England than in France.
-- Maurice Huret in his famous article gave an outline of Charles Strickland's life which was well calculated to whet the appetites of the inquiring.
-- He was a psycho-pathologist, as well as a student of art, and the subconscious had few secrets from him.
-- And if I may judge from the reviews, many of these books are well and carefully written; much thought has gone to their composition; to some even has been given the anxious labour of a lifetime.
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