commit是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 犯(罪) , 干(坏事) ; 使(自己) 承担义务, 作出保证, 承诺; 把…交托给,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For whatever infidelities he might ever commit he was adequately punished before they had reached the Grand Hotel.
-- Whatever they thought about her sex morals, her infidelity to United Brethrenism, and her general dementia, they had not suspected that she could commit such an obscenity as smoking.
-- Mr. Tozer came out of the international conference as craftily joyful as any Mr. Secretary Tozer or Lord Tozer in Washington or London: "Fine!Fine!We made him commit himself!Twenty-five, he says.
-- Oh, Mart, if you only knew the wickedness of the natives, and the way they lie and sing indecent songs and commit all manner of vileness!And the Church of England lets them wallow in their sins!Only us to save them.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'A man will commit a clever murder at the risk of his life and then at once he goes drinking in a tavern.
-- There is, if you recollect, a suggestion that there are certain persons who can 芒聙娄 that is, not precisely are able to, but have a perfect right to commit breaches of morality and crimes, and that the law is not for them.'
-- But extraordinary men have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the law in any way, just because they are extraordinary.
-- 'The only difference is that I don't contend that extraordinary people are always bound to commit breaches of morals, as you call it.
-- Do men go to commit a murder as I went then?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'To insult one who is not fortunate in life, sir, and who never gaveyou the least offence, and the many reasons for not insulting whomyou are old enough and wise enough to understand,' said Mr.Mell, with his lip trembling more and more, 'you commit a meanand base action.
-- To all of which, that I might commit nobody, I invented, I amafraid, appropriate answers.
-- I search my breast, and I commit its secrets, if I knowthem, without any reservation to this paper.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Miss Fairfax must already have given her account. I shall not commit myself by claiming more than she may chuse to allow.'
-- 'Take a little time, consider, do not commit yourself.'
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Besides, I am confessing my sins, and it would be impossible to kneel in a more charming confessional; you commit your sins in one drawing-room, and receive absolution for them in another."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling.
-- 'I commit my cause to the justice of my judges, yet I see no room for hope.
-- I had an obscure feeling that all was not over and that he would still commit some signal crime, which by its enormity should almost efface the recollection of the past.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To all these arguments, Scarlett smiled but saidnothing, unwilling to commit herself before learning how she would like Atlanta and constant association with her in-laws.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For the fugitive out on the marshes with the ironed leg, the mysterious young man, the file, the food, and the dreadful pledge I was under to commit a larceny on those sheltering premises, rose before me in the avenging coals.
-- "Did your client commit the robbery?"
-- I saw in this the reason for my being staved off so long and the reason for my late guardian's declining to commit himself to the formal knowledge of such a scheme.
-- "Don't commit yourself," said Mr. Jaggers, "and don't commit any one.
-- Why did you who read this, commit that not dissimilar inconsistency of your own last year, last month, last week?
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