respect是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 尊敬, 尊重n. 敬意, 问候, 关系, 方面,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There's nothing gained but a little relief if I respect your confidence.
-- 'That alters the case a little, Mr. Prendick,' he said, with a trifle more respect in his manner.
-- But during these earlier days of my stay they broke the Law only furtively and after dark; in the daylight there was a general atmosphere of respect for its multifarious pro-hibitions.
-- * This description corresponds in every respect to Noble's Isle.
-- I had my quarrels with them of course, and could show some of their teeth-marks still; but they soon gained a wholesome respect for my trick of throwing stones and for the bite of my hatchet.
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:
-- For though the French commander bore a high character for courage and enter-prise, he was also thought to be expert in those political practises which do not always respect the nicer obligations of morality, and which so generally disgraced the European diplomacy of that period.
-- The deeper tones of one who spoke as having authority were next heard, amid a silence that denoted the respect with which his orders, or rather advice, was received.
-- Hawkeye dropped the breech of his rifle to the earth, and drawing a long, free breath, exclaimed, in an audible whis-per: 'Ay!they respect the dead, and it has this time saved their own lives, and, it may be, the lives of better men too.'
-- We will follow with a small guard, for such respect is due to one who holds the honor of his king in keeping; and hark'ee, Duncan,' he added, in a half whisper, though they were alone, 'it may be prudent to have some aid at hand, in case there should be treachery at the bottom of it all.'
-- Among his actual auditors, however, it mere-ly gave him an additional claim to that respect which they never withhold from such as are believed to be the subjects of mental alienation.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The common people regarded it with a mixture of respect and superstition, partly out of sympathy for the fate of its ill- starred namesake, and partly from the tales of strange sights, and doleful lamentations, told concerning it.
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:
-- It cannot be said that they are without guile, but they have a tolerant respect for the law, when the law is supported by strength.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The glare and hurry of broad noon are not adapted to idle pursuits like mine; a glimpse of passing faces caught by the light of a street-lamp or a shop window is often better for my purpose than their full revelation in the daylight; and, if I must add the truth, night is kinder in this respect than day, which too often destroys an air-built castle at the moment of its completion, without the least ceremony or remorse.
-- It was natural for four reasons: firstly, because Mrs Quilp being a young woman and notoriously under the dominion of her husband ought to be excited to rebel; secondly, because Mrs Quilp's parent was known to be laudably shrewish in her disposition and inclined to resist male authority; thirdly, because each visitor wished to show for herself how superior she was in this respect to the generality of her sex; and fourthly, because the company being accustomed to scandalise each other in pairs, were deprived of their usual subject of conversation now that they were all assembled in close friendship, and had consequently no better employment than to attack the common enemy.
-- This was the signal for a general clamour, which beginning in a low murmur gradually swelled into a great noise in which everybody spoke at once, and all said that she being a young woman had no right to set up her opinions against the experiences of those who knew so much better; that it was very wrong of her not to take the advice of people who had nothing at heart but her good; that it was next door to being downright ungrateful to conduct herself in that manner; that if she had no respect for herself she ought to have some for other women, all of whom she compromised by her meekness; and that if she had no respect for other women, the time would come when other women would have no respect for her; and she would be very sorry for that, they could tell her.
-- Mr Swiveller's conduct in respect to Miss Sophy having been of that vague and dilatory kind which is usually looked upon as betokening no fixed matrimonial intentions, the young lady herself began in course of time to deem it highly desirable, that it should be brought to an issue one way or other.
-- 'Respect associations, Tommy, even if you do cut up rough.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her fashionable dress, cape and hat won her the respect of her aunt, who no longer dared to offer her work as a washerwoman, considering her present position far above it.
-- And yet he doubtless acknowledged in himself this superiority, and regarded the respect shown him as his due, and was offended when it was not forthcoming.
-- The chanter, evidently out of respect for Nekhludoff, wished to sweep around him, and thus it happened that he grazed Katiousha.
-- I am a libertine, an impostor; and all of us, all those that know me as I am, not only do not detest but respect me."
-- You must learn to respect other people's property."
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So now, Livesey, come post; do not lose an hour, if you respect me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Our arms, which were noiseless, could only produce a moderate effect on the savages, who have little respect for aught but blustering things.
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