reason是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 原因, 理性, 理智v. 推理, 说服, 辩论, 讨论,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What reason have you to be merry?
-- What reason have you to be morose?
-- Why give it as a reason for not coming now?'
-- There was plenty of width for that, and room to spare; which is perhaps the reason why Scrooge thought he saw a locomotive hearse going on before him in the gloom.
-- said Scrooge, returning quick-ly to the charge, for the reason just assigned; and wishing, though it were only for a second, to divert the vision's stony gaze from himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Silence in the court!Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said serene, illustrious, excel-lent, and so forth; that was to say, by coming and going, between the dominions of our said serene, illustrious, ex-cellent, and so forth, and those of the said French Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise evil-ad-verbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North America.
-- 'Is there any particular and special reason for your being unable to do either?'
-- Ah, confound you!What a change you have made in your-self!A good reason for taking to a man, that he shows you what you have fallen away from, and what you might have been!Change places with him, and would you have been looked at by those blue eyes as he was, and commiserated by that agitated face as he was?
-- But he never says a word of the true reason of his restlessness, to her, and she finds it best not to hint at it to him.
-- Have you any reason to believe that Lucie loves you?'
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:
-- 'What can be the reason for such a crowd close by the pigsty?'
-- This the lieutenant felt most poignantly, and this was the reason he leant his head against the window, and sighed so deeply.
-- 'Had I but re-joiced when I had reason to do so!But now 'tis past, 'tis past!'
-- ''Tis true little Kay is at the Snow Queen's, and finds ev-erything there quite to his taste; and he thinks it the very best place in the world; but the reason of that is, he has a splinter of glass in his eye, and in his heart.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If there was a reason for his preferring liberal to conservative views, which were held also by many of his circle, it arose not from his considering liberalism more rational, but from its being in closer accordance with his manner of life.
-- "I think of the children, and for that reason I would do anything in the world to save them, but I don't myself know how to save them.
-- But after seeing his brother, listening to his conversation with the professor, hearing afterwards the unconsciously patronizing tone in which his brother questioned him about agricultural matters (their mother's property had not been divided, and Levin took charge of both their shares), Levin felt that he could not for some reason begin to talk to him of his intention of marrying.
-- The Russian fashion of match-making by the offices if intermediate persons was for some reason considered unseemly; it was ridiculed by every one, and by the princess herself.
-- For some reason it was disagreeable to her to think of it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Passepartout tried to reason about the matter, but the policeman tapped him with his stick, and Mr. Fogg made him a signal to obey.
-- "Has Monsieur Fogg dared fifty-five thousand pounds!Well, there's all the more reason for not losing an instant," he continued, getting up hastily.
-- Passepartout was ignorant that, if the face of his watch had been divided into twenty-four hours, like the Italian clocks, he would have no reason for exultation; for the hands of his watch would then, instead of as now indicating nine o'clock in the morning, indicate nine o'clock in the evening, that is, the twenty-first hour after midnight precisely the difference between London time and that of the one hundred and eightieth meridian.
-- The travellers gazed on this curious spectacle from the platforms; but Phileas Fogg, who had the most reason of all to be in a hurry, remained in his seat, and waited philosophically until it should please the buffaloes to get out of the way.
-- There was reason to hope, then, that no accident would mark the journey through this difficult country.
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