ass是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 驴; 傻瓜, 蠢笨的人,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《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The clergyman's horse, stumbling with a dull blunt sound among the graves, was cropping the grass; at once deriving orthodox consolation from the dead parishioners, and enforcing last Sunday's text that this was what all flesh came to; a lean ass who had sought to expound it also, without being qualified and ordained, was pricking his ears in an empty pound hard by, and looking with hungry eyes upon his priestly neighbour.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At all events the arguments were equally strong on both sides, and Nekhludoff laughed as he compared himself to the ass in the fable who, while deciding which of the two bales of hay before him he should have his meal from, starved himself.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "No more an ass than I, sir," returned the captain.
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