intangible是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 无形的,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:
-- That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning; to whose dominion even the modern Christians ascribe one-half of the worlds; which the ancient Ophites of the east reverenced in their statue devil; Ahab did not fall down and worship it like them; but deliriously transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He would let her see, all those six years of intangible ethereal courtship, how little care he had for anything but as it bore upon the consummation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The uncontrol-lable and hopeless mass of decomposition so engendered, would have polluted the air, even if poverty and depriva-tion had not loaded it with their intangible impurities; the two bad sources combined made it almost insupportable.
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