hand是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 手, 人手, 雇员; 专门业人员; 指针v. 支持, 搀扶, 交给,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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true."
-- Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
-- And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in awe of you.
-- For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle.
-- He was trying his hand at a ship under full sail, but he didn't make much headway, I thought.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The patient shook her head, and stretched out her hand towards the child.
-- Nor a drop,' said Mr. Bumble, waving his right hand in a dignified, but placid manner.
-- Although Oliver did as he was desired, at once; and passed the back of his unoccupied hand briskly across his eyes, he left a tear in them when he looked up at his conductor.
-- Withdrawing his other hand from Mr. Bumble's he covered his face with both; and wept until the tears sprung out from between his chin and bony fingers.
-- 'Well!Of all the ungratefullest, and worst-disposed boys as ever I see, Oliver, you are the--' 'No, no, sir,' sobbed Oliver, clinging to the hand which held the well-known cane; 'no, no, sir; I will be good indeed; indeed, indeed I will, sir!I am a very little boy, sir; and it is so--so--' 'So what?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My reasons for believing it are briefly these: It does not ap-pear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.
-- She saw him start at this, but he said nothing, and she continued: 'You could not have made the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it.'
-- When they parted, Lady Catherine, with great conde-scension, wished them a good journey, and invited them to come to Hunsford again next year; and Miss de Bourgh ex-erted herself so far as to curtsey and hold out her hand to both.
-- Their party in the dining-room was large, for almost all the Lucases came to meet Maria and hear the news; and various were the subjects that occupied them: Lady Lucas was inquiring of Maria, after the welfare and poultry of her eldest daughter; Mrs. Bennet was doubly engaged, on one hand collecting an account of the present fashions from Jane, who sat some way below her, and, on the other, retail-ing them all to the younger Lucases; and Lydia, in a voice rather louder than any other person's, was enumerating the various pleasures of the morning to anybody who would hear her.
-- Mr. Bennet saw that her whole heart was in the subject, and affectionately taking her hand said in reply: 'Do not make yourself uneasy, my love.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said Rigaud, pausing, knife in hand and morsel in mouth.
-- Ever touched the broom, or spread the mats, or rolled them up, or found the draughts, or collected the dominoes, or put my hand to any kind of work?'
-- He kept his small smooth hand in constant requisition, as if it were a witness to his gentility that had often done him good service before.
-- But in short,' said Pet, timidly touching her hand as it lay impassive on the sofa between them, 'will you not allow Father to tender you any slight assistance or service?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So you must try to be contented with making your name boyish, and playing brother to us girls,' said Beth, stroking the rough head with a hand that all the dish washing and dusting in the world could not make ungentle in its touch.
-- Then she remembered her mother's prom-ise and, slipping her hand under her pillow, drew out a little crimson-covered book.
-- Timidly she crept from her lattice, put her hand on Roderigo's shoulder, and was about to leap gracfully down when 'Alas!Alas for Zara!'
-- And there was Laurie, with a full cup in one hand and a plate of ice in the other.
-- They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave her hand to them.
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