word是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 词, 词语; 言语, 话; 谈话; 消息, 信息,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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Well," exclaimed Ned Land, "never will I give my word of honour not to try to escape."
-- "I did not ask you for your word of honour, Master Land," answered the commander, coldly.
-- But no word of honour binds us to the master of this vessel."
-- "One word only, Master Land," I said to the harpooner, who was beginning to ravage another coco-nut tree.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He quoted the last word satirically against her.
-- "The point about love," he said, his consciousness quickly adjusting itself, "is that we hate the word because we have vulgarised it.
-- She said no word to anybody.
-- So saying, having given her word like a man, she and Ursula entered the frail craft, and pushed gently off.
-- For, as time went on, she never opposed her husband in word or deed.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The business of eating being concluded, and no one uttering a word of sociable conversation, I approached a window to examine the weather.
-- Each had enough decorum to suspend further hostilities: Heathcliff placed his f ists, out of temptation, in his pockets; Mrs. Heathcliff curled her lip, and walked to a seat far off, where she kept her word by playing the part of a statue during the remainder of my stay.
-- Miss Cathy and he were now very thick; but Hindley hated him: and to say the tru th I did the same; and we plagued and went on with him shamefully: for I wasn't reasonable enough to feel my injustice, and the mistress never put in a word on his behalf when she saw him wronged.
-- This was especially to be remarked if any one attempted to impose upon, or domineer over, his favourite: he was painfully jealous lest a word should be spoken amiss to him; seeming to have got into his head the notion that, because he liked Heathcliff, all hated, and longed to do him an ill turn.
-- Heathcliff received no flogging, but he was told that the first word he spoke to Miss Catherine should ensure a dismissal; and Mrs. Earnshaw undertook to keep her sister in law in due restraint when she returned home; employing art, not force: with force sh e would have found it impossible.
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