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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Do I look like a man that would commit crimes?"
-- "I, myself!Save this boy, Thalcave!I commit him to you."
-- They took care to commit the mistake in Greek, that it might not be so self-evident, for anyone can see that the ecualyptus covers badly."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To commit a crime would be to show where he was hiding.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was one of the persons under treatment with my professor; he had fits, and attacks of melancholy, then he would weep, and once he tried to commit suicide.
-- 'This man assures me,' said Aglaya, scornfully, when the prince had finished reading the letter, 'that the words 'break off everything' do not commit me to anything whatever; and himself gives me a written guarantee to that effect, in this letter.
-- 'Take care, don't commit yourself for a whole lifetime.'
-- In the manner of one with long hours before him, he be-gan his history; but after a few incoherent words he jumped to the conclusion, which was that 'having ceased to believe in God Almighty, he had lost every vestige of morality, and had gone so far as to commit a theft.'
-- What if I were now to commit some terrible crime murder ten fel-low-creatures, for instance, or anything else that is thought most shocking and dreadful in this world what a dilem-ma my judges would be in, with a criminal who only has a fortnight to live in any case, now that the rack and other forms of torture are abolished!Why, I should die comfort-ably in their own hospital in a warm, clean room, with an attentive doctor probably much more comfortably than I should at home.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then Jove lord of the storm-cloud said to Apol-lo, 'Dear Phoebus, go, I pray you, and take Sarpedon out of range of the weapons; cleanse the black blood from off him, and then bear him a long way off where you may wash him in the river, anoint him with ambrosia, and clothe him in immortal raiment; this done, commit him to the arms of the two fleet messengers, Death, and Sleep, who will carry him straightway to the rich land of Lycia, where his broth-ers and kinsmen will inter him, and will raise both mound and pillar to his memory, in due honour to the dead.'
-- And now dare you not rescue even his dead body, for his wife to look upon, with his mother and child, his father Priam, and his people, who would forthwith commit him to the flames, and give him his due funeral rites?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The next thing you threaten to commit suicide about, I shan't do, even at some personal inconvenience.'
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:
-- Notwithstanding the Hu-rons were necessarily ignorant of the little channels among the eddies and rapids of the stream, they knew the common signs of such a navigation too well to commit any material blunder.
-- Infuriated at the self-command of the captive, the woman placed her arms akimbo; and, throwing herself into a pos-ture of defiance, she broke out anew, in a torrent of words that no art of ours could commit successfully to paper.
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:
-- Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them.
-- One of the members for the affirmative offered several arguments of great strength and weight, alleging, 'that as the Yahoos were the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature ever produced, so they were the most restive and in-docible, mischievous and malicious; they would privately suck the teats of the Houyhnhnms' cows, kill and devour their cats, trample down their oats and grass, if they were not continually watched, and commit a thousand other ex-travagancies.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Let me seriously entreat you to reconsider this, Bounderby,' urged Mr. Gradgrind, 'before you commit yourself to such a decision.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, forasmuch as all favourite legends must be associated with the affections, and as many more people fall in love than commit murder which it may be hoped, howsoever bad we are, will continue until the end of the world to be the dispensation under which we shall live the Bleeding Heart, Bleeding Heart, bleeding away story, carried the day by a great majority.
-- There never was a Chivery a gentleman that ever I heard of, and I will not commit the meanness of making a false representation on a subject so momentous.
-- Let that feeling represent what I could tell you, and commit her to your friendliness with my thanks.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is certain these people do not commit this as a crime; it is not against their own con-sciences reproving, or their light reproaching them; they do not know it to be an offence, and then commit it in defiance of divine justice, as we do in almost all the sins we commit.
-- Be-ing all met, and the captain with me, I caused the men to be brought before me, and I told them I had got a full account of their villainous behaviour to the captain, and how they had run away with the ship, and were preparing to commit further robberies, but that Providence had ensnared them in their own ways, and that they were fallen into the pit which they had dug for others.
-- But among all my relations or acquaintances I could not yet pitch upon one to whom I durst commit the gross of my stock, that I might go away to the Brazils, and leave things safe behind me; and this greatly perplexed me.
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