though是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 可是, 然而, 不过conj. 尽管, 虽然,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《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He continued to pump poor Passepartout, and learned that he really knew little or nothing of his master, who lived a solitary existence in London, was said to be rich, though no one knew whence came his riches, and was mysterious and impenetrable in his affairs and habits.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The boy, normal village youngster though he was, given to stoning cats and to playing pom-pom- pullaway, gained something of the intoxication of treasure-hunting as the Doc struggled to convey his vision of the pride of learning, the universality of biology, the triumphant exactness of chemistry.
-- It is the property of the people of the state, and what they want--or what they are told they want--is a mill to turn out men and women who will lead moral lives, play bridge, drive good cars, be enterprising in business, and occasionally mention books, though they are not expected to have time to read them.
-- The light had gone out abruptly, as though an agitated watcher were trying to hide from him.
-- In college, they had gone to dances together, though as a dancer Martin was more spirited than accurate, and his partners sometimes had difficulty in deciding just what he was trying to dance.
-- He was atop a pole and suddenly, for no clear cause, his eyes opened and he saw; as though he had just awakened he saw that the prairie was vast, that the sun was kindly on rough pasture and ripening wheat, on the old horses, the easy, broad-beamed, friendly horses, and on his red-faced jocose companions; he saw that the meadow larks were jubilant, and blackbirds shining by little pools, and with the living sun all life was living.
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:
-- Though always sickly and delicate Dostoevsky came out third in the final examination of the Petersburg school of Engineering.
-- Though neither by temperament nor conviction a revolu-tionist, Dostoevsky was one of a little group of young men who met together to read Fourier and Proudhon.
-- Though his religious temper led him in the end to accept every suffering with resignation and to regard it as a blessing in his own case, he constantly recurs to the subject in his writings.
-- Part I Crime and PunishmentChapter I n an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young Oman came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
-- The bell gave a faint tinkle as though it were made of tin and not of copper.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This argument had some share in quieting my mother, though her increasing indisposition had perhaps a larger one.
-- This may be fancy, though I think the memory of most of us can gofarther back into such times than many of us suppose; just as Ibelieve the power of observation in numbers of very youngchildren to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy.
-- Peggotty continuing to stand motionless in the middle of the room, and my mother resuming her singing, I fell asleep, though I was not so sound asleep but that I could hear voices, without hearing what they said.
-- What else was it possible to infer from what you said, you unkindcreature, when you know as well as I do, that on his account onlylast quarter I wouldn't buy myself a new parasol, though that oldgreen one is frayed the whole way up, and the fringe is perfectlymangy?
-- However, I said 'No,' and I added, 'You don't seem to be,either, though you say you are';- for she was walking much toonear the brink of a sort of old jetty or wooden causeway we hadstrolled upon, and I was afraid of her falling over.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudi-narian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though ev-erywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.
-- Her sister, though comparatively but little removed by matrimony, being settled in London, only sixteen miles off, was much beyond her daily reach; and many a long October 6 Emmaand November evening must be struggled through at Hart-field, before Christmas brought the next visit from Isabella and her husband, and their little children, to fill the house, and give her pleasant society again.
-- Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always dis-agreeable; and he was by no means yet reconciled to his own daughter's marrying, nor could ever speak of her but with compassion, though it had been entirely a match of affec-tion, when he was now obliged to part with Miss Taylor too; and from his habits of gentle selfishness, and of being never able to suppose that other people could feel differently from himself, he was very much disposed to think Miss Taylor had done as sad a thing for herself as for them, and would have been a great deal happier if she had spent all the rest of her life at Hartfield.
-- Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them: and though this was not par-ticularly agreeable to Emma herself, she knew it would be so much less so to her father, that she would not have him really suspect such a circumstance as her not being thought perfect by every body.
-- Mrs. Weston ought to have found more in it, for she had a husband whose warm heart and sweet tem-per made him think every thing due to her in return for the 16 Emmagreat goodness of being in love with him; but though she had one sort of spirit, she had not the best.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Moreover, the village called Weatherbury, wherein the scenes of the present story of the series are for the most part laid, would perhaps be hardly discernible by the explorer, without help, in any existing place nowadays; though at the time, comparatively recent, at which the tale was written, a sufficient reality to meet the descriptions, both of backgrounds and personages, might have been traced easily enough.
-- The smaller of its hands, too, occasionally slipped round on the pivot, and thus, though the minutes were told with precision, nobody could be quite certain of the hour they belonged to.
-- "Then I heard it fall," said the girl, in a soft, though not particularly low voice.
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