what是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为pron. 什么a. 多么, 何等; 什么; 尽可能多的,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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father or mother knew what became of me.
-- My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and ex-cellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design.
-- He asked me what reasons, more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for leaving father's house and my native country, where I might be well introduced, and had a prospect of raising my fortune by application and industry, with a life of ease and pleasure.
-- He told me it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspir-ing, superior fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves fa-mous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road; that these things were all either too far above me or too far below me; that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found, by long experience, was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness, not exposed to the miseries and hardships, the labour and sufferings of the mechanic part of mankind, and not embarrassed with the pride, luxury, am-bition, and envy of the upper part of mankind.
-- This put my mother into a great passion; she told me she knew it would be to no purpose to speak to my father upon any such subject; that he knew too well what was my inter-est to give his consent to anything so much for my hurt; and that she wondered how I could think of any such thing after the discourse I had had with my father, and such kind and tender expressions as she knew my father had used to me; and that, in short, if I would ruin myself, there was no help for me; but I might depend I should never have their con-sent to it; that for her part she would not have so much hand in my destruction; and I should never have it to say that my mother was willing when my father was not.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To him therefore the succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, independent of what might arise to them from their father's inheriting that property, could be but small.
-- A continuance in a place where everything reminded her of former delight, was exactly what suited her mind.
-- Mrs. John Dashwood did not at all approve of what her husband intended to do for his sisters.
-- And what possible claim could the Miss Dashwoods, who were related to him only by half blood, which she considered as no relationship at all, have on his generosity to so large an amount.
-- "He did not know what he was talking of, I dare say; ten to one but he was light-headed at the time.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She gazed at the green landscape, now passing in swift review, until her swifter thoughts replaced its impression with vague conjectures of what Chicago might be.
-- Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear!Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.
-- Her maidenly reserve, and a certain sense of what was conventional under the circumstances, called her to forestall and deny this familiarity, but the daring and magnetism of the individual, born of past experiences and triumphs, prevailed.
-- What does it not hold for the weary!What old illusion of hope is not here forever repeated!Says the soul of the toiler to itself, "I shall soon be free.
-- If Hanson sat every evening in the front room and read his paper, if he went to bed at nine, and Minnie a little later, what would they expect of her?
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round more than a body could tell what to do with.
-- She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldn't say it for the whole world; she was going to live so as to go to the good place.
-- The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about some- body that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog cry- ing about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn't make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me.
-- Well, I know what I's gwyne to do: I's gwyne to set down here and listen tell I hears it agin.'
-- What you know 'bout witches?'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What a look of surprise shone on Mastro Cherry's face!His funny face became still funnier.
-- What do you think of it?"
-- Over the fire, there was painted a pot full of something which kept boiling happily away and sending up clouds of what looked like real steam.
-- He glanced up and what did he see?
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