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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There he stood on the dark little landing, wondering what it might be that he had seen.
-- "I'd shoot en, that's what I'd do," said a lady in the group.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- DO not propose to add anything to what has already I been written concerning the loss of the 'Lady Vain.'
-- I remember how my head swayed with the seas, and the horizon with the sail above it danced up and down; but I also remember as distinctly that I had a persuasion that I was dead, and that I thought what a jest it was that they should come too late by such a little to catch me in my body.
-- 'What ship is this?'
-- What a shop that was!'
-- But I must look up that ass of a cook, and see what he's done to your mutton.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'What is it?'
-- He made his bound before he saw what it was he was jumping at, and then he tried to stop himself.
-- 'What does Shere Khan need?'
-- So he backed out of the cave mouth growling, and when he was clear he shouted: 'Each dog barks in his own yard!We will see what the Pack will say to this fostering of man-cubs.
-- 'But what will our Pack say?'
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:
-- The warriors appeared to be on the most friendly terms, and seemingly conversed much together; yet, according to the account of the in-terpreter, each was absolutely ignorant of what the other said.
-- It is impossible to say what unlooked-for remark this short and silent communication, between two such singular men, might have elicited from the white man, had not his active curiosity been again drawn to other objects.
-- 'Cora, what think you?'
-- Perhaps the rapidity of the changes from one of these paces to the other created an optical illusion, which might thus magnify the powers of the beast; for it is certain that Hey-ward, who possessed a true eye for the merits of a horse, was unable, with his utmost ingenuity, to decide by what sort of movement his pursuer worked his sinuous way on his foot-steps with such persevering hardihood.
-- 'I know not what you call my bass,' said Heyward, piqued at her remark, 'but I know that your safety, and that of Cora, is far dearer to me than could be any orchestra of Handel's music.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some distant window!How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramp-ing close behind him!and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!
-- But what was still more annoying, Brom took all Opportunities of turning him into ridicule in presence of his mistress, and had a scoundrel dog whom he taught to whine in the most ludicrous man-ner, and introduced as a rival of Ichabod's, to instruct her in psalmody.
-- What passed at this interview I will not pretend to say, for in fact I do not know.
-- What was to be done?
-- To turn and fly was now too late; and besides, what chance was there of escaping ghost or goblin, if such it was, which could ride upon the wings of the wind?
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:
-- But a wise historian is precisely what the Rev.
-- What would we not give for the reminiscences of someone who had been as intimately acquainted with El Greco as I was with Strickland?
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