noble是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 高尚的; 贵族的, 高贵的n. 贵族,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:
-- Beside him, seated at the long shelf which served as table, beneath the noble red-glass window with a portrait of George Washington, was a policeman who, as he gnawed a Hamburger sandwich, demanded: "Say, ain't you this new doctor that's come to assist Pickerbaugh?
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:
-- Granted, granted, I am a scoundrel, but she is a woman of a noble heart, full of sentiments, refined by education.
-- You may wait a long time for that!That's how it always is with these Schil-leresque noble hearts; till the last moment every goose is a swan with them, till the last moment, they hope for the best and will see nothing wrong, and although they have an inkling of the other side of the picture, yet they won't face the truth till they are forced to; the very thought of it makes them shiver; they thrust the truth away with both hands, until the man they deck out in false colours puts a fool's cap on them with his own hands.
-- He has a noble nature and a kind heart.
-- 'In the first place, because I can reason that I am one, and secondly, because for a month past I have been troubling benevolent Providence, calling it to witness that not for my own fleshly lusts did I undertake it, but with a grand and noble object ha-ha!Thirdly, because I aimed at carrying it out as justly as possible, weighing, measuring and calculating.
-- 'And, what do you want with marriage, with legal marriage, my dear, noble Pyotr Petrovitch?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I could not helpthinking even in that interval, I remember, what a noble fellow hewas in appearance, and how homely and plain Mr. Mell lookedopposed to him.
-- We thought this intention very noble in Steerforth,whose mother was a widow, and rich, and would do almostanything, it was said, that he asked her.
-- 'Then, he's such agenerous, fine, noble fellow,' said I, quite carried away by myfavourite theme, 'that it's hardly possible to give him as muchpraise as he deserves.
-- Wehad noble games out of hours, and plenty of liberty; but even then,as I remember, we were well spoken of in the town, and rarely didany disgrace, by our appearance or manner, to the reputation ofDoctor Strong and Doctor Strong's boys.
-- To have all those noble Romans alivebefore me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead ofbeing the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a mostnovel and delightful effect.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I do not require you to adopt all my suspicions, though you make so noble a profession of doing it, but I honestly tell you what they are.'
-- Nev-er better. Don't I hear another carriage? Who can this 392 Emmabe? very likely the worthy Coles. Upon my word, this is charming to be standing about among such friends!And such a noble fire! I am quite roasted.
-- 'Service!oh!it was such an inexpressible obligation! The very recollection of it, and all that I felt at the time when I saw him coming his noble look and my wretchedness before.
-- 'You are so noble in your ideas!'
-- That was the kind action; that was the noble benevo-lence and generosity; that was the service which made me begin to feel how superior he was to every other being upon earth.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Well, I'll say this for Pennyways," added Coggan, "that whenever he do really make up his mind to do a noble thing in the shape of a good action, as I could see by his face he did to-night afore sitting down, he's generally able to carry it out.
-- That is a noble though perhaps an unpromising love which not even the fear of breeding aversion in the bosom of the one beloved can deter from combating his or her errors.
-- "'Tis a very noble quality in ye."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In his figure, manner, and his whole bearing it was easy to see that he had either come of a noble family, or that, from his earliest childhood, he had been gently bred.
-- "You are a good and noble man," he said.
-- What power there must be in the petitions put up by such hearts; how pure the fervor that bears their souls to Heaven in prayer!What exquisite joy they would find in self-sacrifice!What a pang for his mother's heart if she could not send him all that he asked for!And this noble affection, these sacrifices made at such terrible cost, were to serve as the ladder by which he meant to climb to Delphine de Nucingen.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'What a noble fellow!'
-- He must have been a noble creature in his better days, being even now in wreck so at-tractive and amiable.
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