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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "My dear child," said Lord Glenarvan, "there is something so providential in the whole affair, that we have every reason to hope.
-- That's a reason that would never have entered my head!"
-- At least, this was the reason assigned by the Major.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'For the very simple reason that I see the dog himself on our very door-step, and there is the ring of its owner.
-- There is no reason whatever to suspect foul play, or to imag-ine that death could be from any but natural causes.
-- For both these reasons I thought that I was justified in telling rather less than I knew, since no practical good could result from it, but with you there is no reason why I should not be perfectly frank.
-- For this reason I saw a good deal of Sir Charles Baskerville.
-- It ran: 'As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There is such a thing as business, and I really do not see what possible reason there can be, or what we have in common to ' 'Oh, there is no reason, of course, and I suppose there is nothing in common between us, or very little; for if I am Prince Muishkin, and your wife happens to be a member of my house, that can hardly be called a 'reason.'
-- Such were her words very likely she did not give her real reason for this eccentric conduct; but, at all events, that was all the explanation she deigned to offer.
-- She thanked him for his delicacy, however, but saw no reason why Gavrila Ardalionovitch should not know about it.
-- This is the reason why he was so unwilling to take lunch (on the morning upon which we took up this narrative) with the rest of his family.
-- I always used to fall into a sort of torpid condition after such a series, and lost my memory almost entirely; and though I was not altogether without reason at such times, yet I had no logi-cal power of thought.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Cease, then, this brawling, and do not draw your sword; rail at him if you will, and your railing will not be vain, for I tell you and it shall surely be that you shall hereafter receive gifts three times as splendid by reason of this present insult.
-- Of the men, Ajax, son of Telamon, was much the foremost so long as Achilles' anger lasted, for Achil-les excelled him greatly and he had also better horses; but Achilles was now holding aloof at his ships by reason of his quarrel with Agamemnon, and his people passed their time upon the sea shore, throwing discs or aiming with spears at a mark, and in archery.
-- And Sarpedon, captain of the Lycians, answered, 'Tlepol-emus, your father overthrew Ilius by reason of Laomedon's folly in refusing payment to one who had served him well.
-- Meleager, then, stayed at home with Cleopatra, nurs-ing the anger which he felt by reason of his mother's curses.
-- They all held their peace, sitting for a long time silent and dejected, by reason of the sternness with which Achilles had refused them, till presently Diomed said, 'Most noble son of Atreus, king of men, Agamemnon, you ought not to have sued the son of Peleus nor offered him gifts.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He held a white cloth it was a serviette he had brought with him over the lower part of his face, so that his mouth and jaws were completely hidden, and that was the reason of his muffled voice.
-- "My reason for coming to Iping," he proceeded, with a certain deliberation of manner, "was .. a desire for solitude.
-- He could see nothing, but gave reason for supposing that he did, and others of the Iping youth presently joined him.
-- That's no reason why I should be poked to pieces by every stupid bumpkin in Iping, is it?"
-- CHAPTER XII THE INVISIBLE MAN LOSES HIS TEMPER It is unavoidable that at this point the narrative should break off again, for a certain very painful reason that will presently be apparent.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I began turning over in my mind the reason of Mont-gomery's despair.
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