comfortable是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 舒适的, 舒服的; 感到舒适的, 安逸的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He don't make himself comfortable with it.
-- Scrooge's niece was not one of the blind-man's buff party, but was made comfortable with a large chair and a footstool, in a snug corner, where the Ghost and Scrooge were close behind her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Rounding his mouth and both his eyes, as he stepped backward from the table, the waiter shifted his napkin from his right arm to his left, dropped into a comfortable atti-tude, and stood surveying the guest while he ate and drank, as from an observatory or watchtower.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As he was sitting one evening in his room, a dreadful storm arose without, and the rain streamed down from heaven; but the old poet sat warm and comfortable in his chimney-comer, where the fire blazed and the roasting apple hissed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some washed, the young lads bathed in the stream, others made a place comfortable for a rest, untied their sacks of bread, and uncovered the pitchers of rye-beer.
-- "I am afraid you are not quite comfortable here," she said, turning away from his fixed stare, and looking about the room.
-- "No, I must atone for my sins, and I'm very comfortable on the box."
-- she said to him; "and I am so comfortable now."
-- As she sat in a corner of the comfortable carriage, that hardly swayed on its supple springs, while the grays trotted swiftly, in the midst of the unceasing rattle of wheels and the changing impressions in the pure air, Anna ran over the events of the last days, and she saw her position quite differently from how it had seemed at home.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Passepartout wandered for several hours in the midst of this motley crowd, looking in at the windows of the rich and curious shops, the jewellery establishments glittering with quaint Japanese ornaments, the restaurants decked with streamers and banners, the tea-houses, where the odorous beverage was being drunk with saki, a liquor concocted from the fermentation of rice, and the comfortable smoking-houses, where they were puffing, not opium, which is almost unknown in Japan, but a very fine, stringy tobacco.
-- The backs of the seats were thrown back, bedsteads carefully packed were rolled out by an ingenious system, berths were suddenly improvised, and each traveller had soon at his disposition a comfortable bed, protected from curious eyes by thick curtains.
-- After a comfortable breakfast, served in the car, Mr. Fogg and his partners had just resumed whist, when a violent whistling was heard, and the train stopped.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Only, when I get to thinking about the way most of these damned profs don't even know what he's up to--" Martin was off again, and if Leora did not altogether understand the relation of the synthesis of antibodies to the work of Arrhenius, yet she listened with comfortable pleasure in his zeal, with none of Madeline Fox's gently corrective admonitions.
-- He saw Leora's eyes and heard Clif's comfortable scoffing, and the quiet was such as he could not endure.
-- "Did you have a comfortable trip on the train?"
-- If in his house there was but one comfortable chair, on his desk were letters, long, intimate, and respectful, from the great ones of France and Germany, Italy and Denmark, and from scientists whom Great Britain so much valued that she gave them titles almost as high as those with which she rewarded distillers, cigarette- manufacturers, and the owners of obscene newspapers.
-- Mother will see you have a comfortable corner in the barn--" Leora intruded: "Look here, Papa.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Were you comfortable together?'
-- 'Quite as comfortable as we can expect a young motherto be, under these melancholy domestic circumstances.
-- Mrs.Gummidge's was rather a fretful disposition, and she whimperedmore sometimes than was comfortable for other parties in so smallan establishment.
-- I picture myself going up to bed, among the unusedrooms, and sitting on my bedside crying for a comfortable word 81from Peggotty.
-- Peggotty'spromised letter- what a comfortable letter it was!- arrived before'the half' was many weeks old, and with it a cake in a perfect nestof oranges, and two bottles of cowslip wine.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Volume IChapter IEmma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
-- 'We should not like her so well as we do, sir, if we could suppose it; but she knows how much the marriage is to Miss Taylor's advantage; she knows how very acceptable it must be, at Miss Taylor's time of life, to be settled in a home of her own, and how important to her to be secure of a comfortable provision, and therefore cannot allow herself to feel so much pain as pleasure.
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