trick是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 诡计, 恶作剧, 技艺,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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'My dear fellow, you have been invaluable to me in this as in many other cases, and I beg that you will forgive me if I have seemed to play a trick upon you.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I would remind you of this that you may learn to leave off being so deceitful, and discover how much you are likely to gain by the embraces out of which you have come here to trick me.'
-- Minerva saw the trick which Apollo had played the son of Tydeus, so she brought him his whip and put spirit into his horses; moreover she went after the son of Admetus in a rage and broke his yoke for him; the mares went one to one side of the course, and the other to the other, and the pole was broken against the ground.
-- Next after him came in Antilochus of the race of Neleus, who had passed Menelaus by a trick and not by the fleetness of his horses; but even so Menelaus came in as close behind him as the wheel is to the horse that draws both the chariot and its master.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She would deceive you, under any circumstances, as little as might be; but she had a trick of answering in this provisional form.
-- A mere trick of his evil eyes, a mere turn of his smooth white hand, a mere hair's-breadth of addition to the fall of his nose and the rise of the moustache in the most frequent movement of his face, conveyed to both of them, equally, a swagger personal to themselves.
-- You want to know why I played this little trick that you have interrupted?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Well, I have a bad trick of standing before the fire, and so I burn my frocks, and I scorched this one, and though it's nicely mended, it shows, and Meg told me to keep still so no one would see it.
-- 'Yankees have a trick of being generous to their enemies,' said Jo, with a look that made the lad redden, 'especially when they beat them,' she added, as, leaving Kate's ball un-touched, she won the game by a clever stroke.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not so the sailor, beholding the scenery of the Antarctic seas; where at times, by some infernal trick of legerdemain in the powers of frost and air, he, shivering and half shipwrecked, instead of rainbows speaking hope and solace to his misery, views what seems a boundless churchyard grinning upon him with its lean ice monuments and splintered crosses.
-- Steelkilt calculated his time, and found that his next trick at the helm would come round at two o'clock, in the morning of the third day from that in which he had been betrayed.
-- Twenty-four hours after, his trick at the silent helm nigh to the man who was apt to doze over the grave always ready dug to the seaman's hand that fatal hour was then to come; and in the fore-ordaining soul of Steelkilt, the mate was already stark and stretched as a corpse, with his forehead crushed in.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Another trick I tried upon him, which he innocently came into also: his name was Ismael, which they call Muley, or Moely; so I called to him - 'Moely,' said I, 'our patron's guns are on board the boat; can you not get a little powder and shot?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was afraid of catching cold I dare say, and invented this trick for getting out of it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Now, bless me," says such a mind, "I have done my duty," when, as a matter of fact, it has merely done its old, unbreakable trick once again.
-- "What a fool trick that was.
-- If only the flying train could be stopped, the terrible trick would be amended.
-- This was a common trick of other residents of the building, whenever they had forgotten their outside keys.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For if it hadn't been for that they'd a jailed us till them Englishmen's baggage come and then the penitentiary, you bet!But that trick took 'em to the graveyard, and the gold done us a still bigger kindness; for if the excited fools hadn't let go all holts and made that rush to get a look we'd a slept in our cravats to- night cravats warranted to WEAR, too longer than WE'D need 'em.'
-- After all this long journey, and after all we'd done for them scoundrels, here it was all come to nothing, everything all busted up and ruined, because they could have the heart to serve Jim such a trick as that, and make him a slave again all his life, and amongst strangers, too, for forty dirty dollars.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The one who had done the trick was Pinocchio, who, not satisfied with that, dragged a heavy stone in front of it.
-- From the answers and the laughter which followed them, Pinocchio understood that the boys had played a trick on him.
-- Will she forgive this last trick of mine?
-- I have only wanted to remind you of the trick you long ago played upon me, to teach you that in this world of ours we must be kind and courteous to others, if we want to find kindness and courtesy in our own days of trouble."
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