imagine是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 想象, 设想, 料想,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Do you imagine ' Mr. Lorry had begun, when Miss Pross took him up short with: 'Never imagine anything.
-- After what has happened, and after his recovery, I find it difficult to imagine any such violent sounding of that string again.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'We have peeped in at the windows in the town below!We know whither they are taken!The greatest splendor and the great-est magnificence one can imagine await them.
-- He had gone out and got his feet wet; though nobody could imagine how it had happened, for it was quite dry weather.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You can't imagine what you've done for me by what you said.
-- You must understand that I was so far from suspecting infidelity, I regarded it as impossible, and then-- try to imagine it--with such ideas, to find out suddenly all the horror, all the loathsomeness.... You must try and understand me.
-- "And do you imagine he realizes all the awfulness of my position?"
-- "I imagine it won't be possible to avoid going.
-- "I imagine you at the ball in lilac."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr. Fogg was the last person to whom to apply for the information.
-- "I will imagine I am at the Carnival!"
-- He could not imagine how the locomotive had become separated from the train; but he did not doubt that the train left behind was in distress.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He could imagine her running down hillsides, shinning up a sack of straw.
-- There are plots against me--oh, you t'ink I imagine it, but you shall see!I make many mistakes.
-- Sir Robert listened so agreeably that Martin thought he understood, but at the end he bellowed: "Young man, if I were commanding a division at the front, with a dud show, an awful show, going on, and a War Office clerk asked me to risk the whole thing to try out some precious little invention of his own, can you imagine what I'd answer?
-- But when he had missed four dinners in succession; when she had raged, "Can you imagine how awful it was for Mrs. Thorn to be short a man at the last moment?"
-- But-- I imagine it's just that argument that's kept almost everybody, all these centuries, from being anything but a machine for digestion and propagation and obedience.
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:
-- You can imagine all she went through!To leave her situation at once was impos-sible not only on account of the money debt, but also to spare the feelings of Marfa Petrovna, whose suspicions would have been aroused: and then Dounia would have been the cause of a rupture in the family.
-- 'No, mother, no, Dounia, you won't deceive me!and then they apologise for not asking my advice and for taking the decision without me!I dare say!They imagine it is arranged now and can't be broken off; but we will see whether it can or not!A magnificent excuse: 'Pyotr Petro-vitch is such a busy man that even his wedding has to be in post-haste, almost by express.'
-- Imagine for a moment what may have become of your sister in ten years?
-- When he had happened to imagine all this beforehand, he had sometimes thought that he would be very much afraid.
-- But confound them all now!They won't notice me, and I need a little fresh air, for you've come just in the nick of time another two minutes and I should have come to blows!They are talking such a lot of wild stuff 芒聙娄 you simply can't imagine what men will say!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I labour under the same kind of astonishment to this day,having invariably observed that of all human weaknesses, the oneto which our common nature is the least disposed to confess (Icannot imagine why) is the weakness of having gone to sleep in acoach.
-- With awasherwoman, who exposes hard-bake for sale in her parlour-window, dwelling next door, and a Bow-street officer residing overthe way, you may imagine that his society is a source ofconsolation to myself and to Mrs. Micawber.
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