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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Weston, who had been a widower so long, and who seemed so perfectly comfortable without a wife, so constantly occu-pied either in his business in town or among his friends here, always acceptable wherever he went, always cheerful Mr. Weston need not spend a single evening in the year alone if he did not like it.
-- They seem very comfortable as they are, and if she were to take any pains to marry him, she would probably repent it.
-- He had a comfortable home for her, and Emma imagined a very suf-ficient income; for though the vicarage of Highbury was not large, he was known to have some independent property; and she thought very highly of him as a good-humoured, well-meaning, respectable young man, without any defi-ciency of useful understanding or knowledge of the world.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Here he spread half of the hay as a bed, and, as well as he could in the darkness, pulled the other half over him by way of bed-clothes, covering himself entirely, and feeling, physically, as comfortable as ever he had been in his life.
-- There was no window in front; but a square hole in the door was glazed with a single pane, through which red, comfortable rays now stretched out upon the ivied wall in front.
-- For it may be argued with great plausibility that reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and that expectation in its only comfortable form that of absolute faith is practically an impossibility; whilst in the form of hope and the secondary compounds, patience, impatience, resolve, curiosity, it is a constant fluctuation between pleasure and pain.
-- Being hardly in a condition to drive home as she had driven to town, Boldwood, with every delicacy of manner and feeling, offered to get her a driver, or to give her a seat in his phaeton, which was more comfortable than her own conveyance.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a friendly and comfortable room and, ordinarily, Scarlett loved the quiet hours which the family spentthere after supper; but tonight she hated the sight of it and, if she had not feared her father's loudly bawled questions,she would have slipped away, down the dark hall to Ellen's little office and cried out her sorrow on the old sofa.
-- He was willing to wait until her fears subsided, only only He sighed as he twisted about seeking a comfortable position, for he was going away to the war so verysoon.
-- Annoyed that she had shown her trepidation, she cried: "I don't see why you've stayed here this long!All youthink about is being comfortable and eating and and things like that."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A boy may lock his door, may be warm in bed, may tuck himself up, may draw the clothes over his head, may think himself comfortable and safe, but that young man will softly creep and creep his way to him and tear him open.
-- The stranger, with a comfortable kind of grunt over his pipe, put his legs up on the settle that he had to himself.
-- She put her hand, which was a comfortable hand though roughened by work, upon my hands, one after another, and gently took them out of my hair.
-- said Joe, in a comfortable tone, "I'm sure of that.
-- My conscience was not by any means comfortable about Biddy.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the ex-tremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princ-es of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: his most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to perform:- '1st, The man-mountain shall not depart from our do-minions, without our license under our great seal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Be poor amoong 'em, be sick amoong 'em, grieve amoong 'em for onny o' th' monny causes that carries grief to the poor man's door, an' they'll be tender wi' yo, gentle wi' yo, comfortable wi' yo, Chrisen wi' yo.
-- The moral sort of fellows might suppose that Mr. James Harthouse derived some comfortable reflections afterwards, from this prompt retreat, as one of his few actions that made any amends for anything, and as a token to himself that he had escaped the climax of a very bad business.
-- There'th nothing comfortable to tell; why unthettle her mind, and make her unhappy?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When I say a nice house, I mean a handsome house--old, tottering, and not exactly comfortable to English notions: a house a little off the perpendicular and inclined to fall into the neighboring canal; exactly the house for a wandering artist to depict; all the more that you could scarcely see it for ivy and a magnificent old tree which grew over the door.
-- Hans had brought us along with fidelity and intelligence, and I began to feel somewhat more comfortable when I reflected that he was to accompany us still farther on our way.
-- When we halted before the house of the Rector, a small and incommodious cabin, neither handsome nor more comfortable than those of his neighbors, I saw a man in the act of shoeing a horse, a hammer in his hand, and a leathern apron tied round his waist.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hilda, however, sud-denly married a man ten years older than herself, an elder member of the same Cambridge group, a man with a fair amount of money, and a comfortable family job in the gov-ernment: he also wrote philosophical essays.
-- He knew it would not change him from an ownerless dog, whom everybody begrudges its golden collar, into a comfortable society dog.
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