tread是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vi. &vt. 踩, 踏, 践踏,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Finally, he walked across the room with a measured tread to where the window was.
-- The corner has been mentioned as a wonderful corner for echoes; it had begun to echo so resoundingly to the tread of coming feet, that it seemed as though the very mention of that weary pacing to and fro had set it going.
-- The corner echoed and re-echoed with the tread of feet; some, as it seemed, under the windows; some, as it seemed, in the room; some coming, some going, some breaking off, some stopping altogether; all in the distant streets, and not one within sight.
-- 298 A tale of two citiesThen, among the advancing echoes, there was the tread of her tiny feet and the sound of her prattling words.
-- The Echoes rarely answered to the actual tread of Sydney Carton.
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:
-- How gladly would he have sunk upon his knees; but he must away to the next heart; yet he still heard the peal-ing tones of the organ, and he himself seemed to have become a newer and a better man; he felt unworthy to tread the neighboring sanctuary which a poor garret, with a sick bed-rid mother, revealed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch sighed, wiped his face, and with a subdued tread walked out of the room.
-- He walked with his firm tread twice up and down the little cage of a room, blinked his eyelids that his tears might not fall, and only then sat down to the table.
-- He did not undress, but walked up and down with his regular tread over the resounding parquet of the dining room, where one lamp was burning, over the carpet of the dark drawing room, in which the light was reflected on the big new portrait of himself handing over the sofa, and across her boudoir, where two candles burned, lighting up the portraits of her parents and woman friends, and the pretty knick-knacks of her writing table, that he knew so well.
-- If I walk on tiptoe, he will be vexed; to tread firmly, I'm ashamed."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- he cried, 'can it be, can it be, that I shall re-ally take an axe, that I shall strike her on the head, split her skull open 芒聙娄 that I shall tread in the sticky warm blood, break the lock, steal and tremble; hide, all spattered in the blood 芒聙娄 with the axe芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As I walked to and fro daily between Southwark and Blackfriars,and lounged about at meal-times in obscure streets, the stones ofwhich may, for anything I know, be worn at this moment by my 164childish feet, I wonder how many of these people were wanting inthe crowd that used to come filing before me in review again, tothe echo of Captain Hopkins's voice!When my thoughts go backnow, to that slow agony of my youth, I wonder how much of thehistories I invented for such people hangs like a mist of fancy overwell-remembered facts!When I tread the old ground, I do notwonder that I seem to see and pity, going on before me, aninnocent romantic boy, making his imaginative world out of suchstrange experiences and sordid things.
-- There are peopleenough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doingoutrage to their feelings by possessing learning.
-- It was awarm, dusty evening, just the time when, in the great mainthoroughfare out of which that by-way turned, there was atemporary lull in the eternal tread of feet upon the pavement, and astrong red sunshine.
-- The noise of wheels and tread of people 539were as hushed, as if the streets had been strewn that depth withfeathers.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A firm loud tread was now heard stamping outside; the door was opened about six inches, and somebody on the other side exclaimed "Neighbours, have ye got room for a few new-born lambs?"
-- Boldwood was stepping on, not with that quiet tread of reserved strength which was his customary gait, in which he always seemed to be balancing two thoughts.
-- She must tread her giddy distracting measure to its last note, as she had begun it.
-- After well-nigh exhausting himself in attempts to get back to the mouth of the cove, in his weakness swimming several inches deeper than was his wont, keeping up his breathing entirely by his nostrils, turning upon his back a dozen times over, swimming en papillon, and so on, Troy resolved as a last resource to tread water at a slight incline, and so endeavour to reach the shore at any point, merely giving himself a gentle impetus inwards whilst carried on in the general direction of the tide.
-- On the way home he heard a heavy tread in front of him, and, overtaking the man, found him to be Coggan.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.
-- For this purpose I will preserve my life; to execute this dear revenge will I again behold the sun and tread the green herbage of earth, which otherwise should vanish from my eyes forever.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Scarlett heard Mammy's lumbering tread shaking the floor of the hall and she hastily untucked her foot and triedto rearrange her face in more placid lines.
-- Shepushed open the door, listened and heard Mammy's heavy tread in the downstairs hall.
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