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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Just imagine no vines to speak of being in Madeira!In 1813, 22,000 pipes of wine were made there, and in 1845 the number fell to 2,669.
-- Some authors imagine that this was the New Hebrides group, and not Australia.
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.
-- 'My dear Watson, clumsy as I have been, you surely do not seriously imagine that I neglected to get the number?
-- 'I imagine that it must be Sir Henry Baskerville.'
-- One would imagine that such a match would be very welcome to Stapleton, and yet I have more than once caught a look of the strongest disap-probation in his face when Sir Henry has been paying some attention to his sister.
-- The night was very dark, so that I can hardly imagine how he could have hoped to see anyone.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Imagine what must have been going on in that man's mind at such a moment; what dreadful convulsions his whole spirit must have endured; it is an outrage on the soul that's what it is.
-- But HERE I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now this very IN-STANT your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man and that this is certain, CERTAIN!
-- You must imagine all that went before, of course, all all.
-- I imagine that various thoughts must beat loud and fast through his head all unfinished ones, and strange, funny thoughts, very likely! like this, for in-stance: 'That man is looking at me, and he has a wart on his forehead!and the executioner has burst one of his but-tons, and the lowest one is all rusty!'
-- And imagine, some people declare that when the head flies off it is CONSCIOUS of having flown off!Just imagine what a thing to realize!Fancy if conscious-ness were to last for even five seconds!
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I can't imagine what possess people.
-- "You may imagine their astonishment to find the room empty.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is quite impossible for the ordinary reader to imagine those eight days.
-- He has not, luckily for himself, anything in his memory to imagine with.
-- Imagine yourself surrounded by all the most horrible cripples and maniacs it is possible to conceive, and you may understand a little of my feelings with these grotesque caricatures of human-ity about me.
-- Yet one would imagine it must have been practised in secret before.
-- You cannot imagine what this means to an inves-tigator, what an intellectual passion grows upon him!You cannot imagine the strange, colourless delight of these intel-lectual desires!The thing before you is no longer an animal, a fellow-creature, but a problem!Sympathetic pain, all I know of it I remember as a thing I used to suffer from years ago.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He began to imagine it would not be so difficult to enter into her life again, high as she was.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I can imagine it.
-- Imagine what the boys said when they saw a Marionette enter the classroom!They laughed until they cried.
-- "What a beautiful land!I have never been there, but I can well imagine it."
-- Imagine to yourselves a little, fat man, much wider than he was long, round and shiny as a ball of butter, with a face beaming like an apple, a little mouth that always smiled, and a voice small and wheedling like that of a cat begging for food.
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