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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The neck was long and slender, and round the thick rim there was still an end of wire hanging, though eaten away with rust.
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:
-- 'Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it.
-- 'Interesting, though elementary,' said he as he returned to his favourite corner of the settee.
-- Though young, his long back was already bowed, and he walked with a forward thrust of his head and a general air of peer-ing benevolence.
-- 'No, sir, no; though I am happy to have had the oppor-tunity of doing that as well.
-- Then the revellers rode close together, for a great fear was on them, but they still followed over the moor, though each, had he been alone, would have been right glad to have turned his horse's head.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Your bundle has some importance, however,' continued the clerk, when they had laughed their fill (it was observable that the subject of their mirth joined in the laughter when he saw them laughing); 'for though I dare say it is not stuffed full of friedrichs d'or and louis d'or judge from your cos-tume and gaiters still if you can add to your possessions such a valuable property as a relation like Mrs. General Ep-anchin, then your bundle becomes a significant object at once.
-- added the prince, as though excusing himself.
-- asked the prince, looking at the millionaire with considerable curiosity But though there may have been something remarkable in the fact that this man was heir to millions of roubles there was something about him which surprised and interested the prince more than that.
-- As for his red-nosed neighbour, the latter since the in-formation as to the identity of Rogojin hung over him, seemed to be living on the honey of his words and in the breath of his nostrils, catching at every syllable as though it were a pearl of great price.
-- said the clerk, as though trying to think out something.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And Achilles answered, 'Fear not, but speak as it is borne in upon you from heaven, for by Apollo, Calchas, to whom you pray, and whose oracles you reveal to us, not a Dan-aan at our ships shall lay his hand upon you, while I yet live to look upon the face of the earth no, not though you name Agamemnon himself, who is by far the foremost of the Achaeans.'
-- Then Agamemnon said, 'Achilles, valiant though you be, you shall not thus outwit me.
-- Never when the Achaeans sack any rich city of the Trojans do I receive so good a prize as you do, though it is my hands that do the better part of the fighting.
-- What though you be brave?
-- Therefore, Agamemnon, though you be strong, take not this girl away, for the sons of the Achaeans have already given her to Achilles; and you, Achilles, strive not further with the king, for no man who by the grace of Jove wields a sceptre has like honour with Agamemnon.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But once there was a concussion and a sound of bottles ringing together as though the table had been hit, and the smash of a bottle flung violently down, and then a rapid pacing athwart the room.
-- His habit of talking to himself in a low voice grew steadily upon him, but though Mrs. Hall listened conscientiously she could make neither head nor tail of what she heard.
-- His irritability, though it might have been comprehensible to an urban brain-worker, was an amazing thing to these quiet Sussex villagers.
-- I didn't flinch, though I'm hanged if that bandaged knob of his, and those blinkers, aren't enough to unnerve any one, coming quietly up to you.
-- Then very quietly he pulled his sleeve out of his pocket again, and raised his arm towards me as though he would show it to me again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I would not draw lots however, and in the night the sail-or whispered to Helmar again and again, and I sat in the bows with my clasp-knife in my hand, though I doubt if I had the stuff in me to fight; and in the morning I agreed to Helmar's proposal, and we handed halfpence to find the odd man.
-- You know the kind of man, calls the thing the 'Ipecacuanha,' of all silly, infer-nal names; though when there's much of a sea without any wind, she certainly acts according.'
-- The matter sounded as though it ended in blows, but in that I thought my ears were mistaken.
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