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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sailors forward shouted, as though it was admirable sport.
-- I do not think I have ever heard quite so much vile language come in a continuous stream from any man's lips before, though I have frequented eccentric company enough.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can, if neces-sary, mouth an egg without breaking it, and though Father Wolf's jaws closed right on the child's back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs.
-- He grew up with the cubs, though they, of course, were grown wolves almost before he was a child.
-- But though a young wolf would have remem-bered that advice every hour, Mowgli forgot it because he was only a boy though he would have called himself a wolf if he had been able to speak in any human tongue.
-- Mowgli would laugh and answer: 'I have the Pack and I have thee; and Baloo, though he is so lazy, might strike a blow or two for my sake.
-- 'That was foolishness, for though Tabaqui is a mischief-maker, he would have told thee of something that concerned thee closely.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Mengwe, the Maquas, the Min-goes, and the Iroquois, though not all strictly the same, are identified frequently by the speakers, being politically con-federated and opposed to those just named.
-- The whole of that wilderness, in which the latter incidents of the legend occurred, is nearly a wilderness still, though the red man has entirely deserted this part of the state.
-- '* * As each nation of the Indians had its language or its dialect, they usually gave different names to the same plac-es, though nearly all of their appellations were descriptive of the object.
-- Though the arts of peace were unknown to this fatal region, its forests were alive with men; its shades and glens rang with the sounds of martial music, and the echoes of its mountains threw back the laugh, or repeated the wan-ton cry, of many a gallant and reckless youth, as he hurried by them, in the noontide of his spirits, to slumber in a long night of forgetfulness.
-- In this mortifying abasement, the colonists, though innocent of her imbecility, and too humble to be the agents of her blunders, were but the natural participators.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Though many years have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I should not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom.
-- It was most in-geniously secured at vacant hours, by a *withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shut-ters; so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out, an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot.
-- The revenue arising from his school was small, and would have been scarcely sufficient to furnish him with daily bread, for he was a huge feeder, and, though lank, had the dilating powers of an anaconda; but to help out his maintenance, he was, according to country custom in those parts, boarded and lodged at the houses of the farmers whose children he instructed.
-- All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phan-toms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambula-tions, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was a woman.
-- This rantipole hero had for some time singled out the blooming Katrina for the object of his uncouth gallant-ries, and though his amorous toyings were something like the gentle caresses and endearments ofa bear, yet it was whispered that she did not altogether discourage his hopes.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a hazardous, though maybe a gallant thing to do, since it is probable that the legend commonly received has had no small share in the growth of Strickland's reputation; for there are many who have been attracted to his art by the detestation in which they held his character or the compassion with which they regarded his death; and the son's well-meaning efforts threw a singular chill upon the father's admirers.
-- I have a recollection of large, unbending women with great noses and rapacious eyes, who wore their clothes as though they were armour; and of little, mouse-like spinsters, with soft voices and a shrewd glance.
-- Finally it occurred to me that I would call as though nothing had happened, and send a message in by the maid asking Mrs. Strickland if it was convenient for her to see me.
-- There were no flowers, and various knick-knacks, put away during the summer, had not been replaced; there was something cheerless and stiff about the room which had always seemed so friendly; it gave you an odd feeling, as though someone were lying dead on the other side of the wall.
-- His brief answer was so scornful that it made my question, natural though it was, seem absurd.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The curious circumstances which led to the escape of the prisoners were as follows: That same year, in the month of February, 1865, in one of the coups de main by which General Grant attempted, though in vain, to possess himself of Richmond, several of his officers fell into the power of the enemy and were detained in the town.
-- The once slave, though free, would not leave his master.
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