fly是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 飞行; 苍蝇v飞行; 飘杨a. 机敏的,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He measured more than fifteen feet, and his powerful wings bore him along with scarcely the slightest effort, for it is the prerogative of large birds to fly with calm majesty, while insects have to beat their wings a thousand times a second.
-- The shot made the whole assemblage fly away en masse, while Paganel watched them attentively through his spectacles.
-- We live like the birds, we sing and fly about.
-- As the large drops fell splashing into the lake, fiery sparks seemed to fly out from the illuminated surface.
-- Think, my friends, of a continent, the margin of which, instead of the center, rose out of the waves originally like a gigantic ring, which encloses, perhaps, in its center, a sea partly evaporated, the waves of which are drying up daily; where humidity does not exist either in the air or in the soil; where the trees lose their bark every year, instead of their leaves; where the leaves present their sides to the sun and not their face, and consequently give no shade; where the wood is often incombustible, where good-sized stones are dissolved by the rain; where the forests are low and the grasses gigantic; where the animals are strange; where quadrupeds have beaks, like the echidna, or ornithorhynchus, and naturalists have been obliged to create a special order for them, called monotremes; where the kangaroos leap on unequal legs, and sheep have pigs' heads; where foxes fly about from tree to tree; where the swans are black; where rats make nests; where the bower-bird opens her reception-rooms to receive visits from her feathered friends; where the birds astonish the imagination by the variety of their notes and their aptness; where one bird serves for a clock, and another makes a sound like a postilion cracking of a whip, and a third imitates a knife-grinder, and a fourth the motion of a pendulum; where one laughs when the sun rises, and another cries when the sun sets!Oh, strange, illogical country, land of paradoxes and anomalies, if ever there was one on earth—the learned botanist Grimard was right when he said, ‘There is that Australia, a sort of parody, or rather a defiance of universal laws in the face of the rest of the world.'"
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:
-- A small fly or moth had fluttered across our path, and in an instant Stapleton was rushing with extraordinary en-ergy and speed in pursuit of it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I can't understand why you always fly into a temper,' said Mrs. Epanchin, who had been listening to the conversation and examining the faces of the speakers in turn.
-- She had children, a husband and family, friends and relations; her household was busy and cheerful; she was surrounded by smiling faces; and then suddenly they are gone, and she is left alone like a solitary fly ... like a fly, cursed with the -burden of her age.
-- What is the use of all your nature to me all your parks and trees, your sunsets and sunrises, your blue skies and your self-satisfied faces when all this wealth of beauty and happiness begins with the fact that it accounts me only me one too many!What is the good of all this beauty and glory to me, when every second, every moment, I cannot but be aware that this little fly which buzzes around my head in the sun's rays even this little fly is a sharer and participator in all the glory of the universe, and knows its place and is happy in it; while I only I, am an outcast, and have been blind to the fact hitherto, thanks to my simplicity!Oh!I know well how the prince and others would like me, instead of indulging in all these wicked words of my own, to sing, to the glory and tri-umph of morality, that well-known verse of Gilbert's: '0, puissent voir longtemps votre beaute sacree Tant d'amis, sourds a mes adieux!Qu'ils meurent pleins de jours, que leur mort soit pleuree, Qu'un ami leur ferme les yeux!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As in the hurricane that sweeps the plain, men fly the neighborhood of some lone, gigantic elm, whose very height and strength but render it so much the more unsafe, because so much the more a mark for thunderbolts; so at those last words of Ahab's many of the mariners did run from him in a terror of dismay.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The man that had the lance or dart did not fly from them, but the rest did; however, as the two crea-tures ran directly into the water, they did not offer to fall upon any of the negroes, but plunged themselves into the sea, and swam about, as if they had come for their diver-sion; at last one of them began to come nearer our boat than at first I expected; but I lay ready for him, for I had loaded my gun with all possible expedition, and bade Xury load both the others.
-- I had neither food, house, clothes, weapon, nor place to fly to; and in de-spair of any relief, saw nothing but death before me - either that I should be devoured by wild beasts, murdered by sav-ages, or starved to death for want of food.
-- I immediately let fly among them, for I always had my gun with me.
-- Sometimes I thought if digging a hole under the place where they made their fire, and putting in five or six pounds of gunpowder, which, when they kindled their fire, would consequently take fire, and blow up all that was near it: but as, in the first place, I should be unwilling to waste so much powder upon them, my store being now within the quantity of one barrel, so neither could I be sure of its going off at any certain time, when it might surprise them; and, at best, that it would do little more than just blow the fire about their ears and fright them, but not sufficient to make them forsake the place: so I laid it aside; and then proposed that I would place myself in ambush in some convenient place, with my three guns all double-loaded, and in the middle of their bloody ceremony let fly at them, when I should be sure to kill or wound perhaps two or three at every shot; and then falling in upon them with my three pistols and my sword, I made no doubt but that, if there were twenty, I should kill them all.
-- This fancy pleased my thoughts for some weeks, and I was so full of it that I often dreamed of it, and, sometimes, that I was just going to let fly at them in my sleep.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No wonder!dashing about with his curricle and hunters!Well, it don't signify talking; but when a young man, be who he will, comes and makes love to a pretty girl, and promises marriage, he has no business to fly off from his word only because he grows poor, and a richer girl is ready to have him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nature has taught the beasts of the field to fly when some unheralded danger threatens.
-- In fact, she was not a woman who would fly into a passion.
-- If, unfortunately, the fly has got caught in the net, the spider can come forth and talk business upon its own terms.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So the old lady says: 'Betsy' (this was a nigger woman), you fly around and get him something to eat as quick as you can, poor thing; and one of you girls go and wake up Buck and tell him oh, here he is himself.
-- His soul did from this cold world fly By falling down a well.
-- This is the speech I learned it, easy enough, while he was learning it to the king: To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One could almost hear a fly go by.
-- Fly immediately to him.
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