wonderful是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 惊人的, 奇妙的; 极好的,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And then came a day, a wonderful day, which I spent in ecstasy.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then, if you had been watching, you would have seen the most wonderful thing in the world the wolf checked in mid-spring.
-- Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mow-gli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books.
-- We are the most wonderful people in all the jungle!We all say so, and so it must be true,' they shouted.
-- They told wonderful tales of gods and men and ghosts; and Buldeo told even more wonderful ones of the ways of beasts in the jungle, till the eyes of the children sit-ting outside the circle bulged out of their heads.
-- Mowgli, who naturally knew something about what they were talking of, had to cover his face not to show that he was laughing, while Buldeo, the Tower musket across his knees, climbed on from one wonderful story to another, and Mow-gli's shoulders shook.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'It would have been more wonderful had he spoken with-out a bidding.
-- It struck him, as he gazed at the admirable structures and the wonderful pre-cautions of their sagacious inmates, that even the brutes of these vast wilds were possessed of an instinct nearly com-mensurate with his own reason; and he could not reflect, without anxiety, on the unequal contest that he had so rashly courted.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
-- I can't imagine a more wonderful exercise of it than to move the souls of men to pity or terror."
-- It's the most wonderful thing in the world.
-- "The dear soul thought she was doing a wonderful thing for me when she made me an artist, but perhaps, after all, it would have been better for me if my father's will had prevailed and I were now but an honest carpenter."
-- "It was a great, a wonderful picture.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The dog then left the beach, and guided b y his wonderful instinct, without showing the least hesitation, went straight in among the downs.
-- Nothing is more wonderful or more singular than those enormous specimens of the order of the myrtaceae, with their leaves placed vertically and not horizontally, so that an edge and not a surface looks upwards, the effect being that the sun's rays penetrate more freely among the trees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr Abel, who had a quaint old-fashioned air about him, looked nearly of the same age as his father, and bore a wonderful resemblance to him in face and figure, though wanting something of his full, round, cheerfulness, and substituting in its place a timid reserve.
-- Having expended his treasure in such purchases as he knew would be most acceptable at home, not forgetting some seed for the wonderful bird, he hastened back as fast as he could, so elated with his success and great good fortune, that he more than half expected Nell and the old man would have arrived before him.
-- Then, with the aid of a phosphorus-box and some matches, he procured a light and applied it to a spirit-lamp which had a place of its own below the temple; then, he shut down the lids of all the little chambers; then he opened them; and then, by some wonderful and unseen agency, the steak was done, the egg was boiled, the coffee was accurately prepared, and his breakfast was ready.
-- To this, Kit's mother yielded her full assent, and tracing things back from effects to causes, they naturally reverted to their deceased husbands, respecting whose lives, deaths, and burials, they compared notes, and discovered sundry circumstances that tallied with wonderful exactness; such as Barbara's father having been exactly four years and ten months older than Kit's father, and one of them having died on a Wednesday and the other on a Thursday, and both of them having been of a very fine make and remarkably good-looking, with other extraordinary coincidences.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To-day, however--it is wonderful to relate--everything in this house disgusted him; the porter, the broad stairway, the flowers, the lackeys, the table decorations, and even Missy herself, who, just now, seemed to him unattractive and unnatural.
-- At the first moment she hazily recalled that new, wonderful world of feeling and thought which had been opened to her by that charming young man who loved her, and whom she loved, and then his inexplicable cruelty and the long chain of humiliation and suffering which followed as the direct result of that enchanting bliss, and it pained her.
-- "Such a wonderful little woman!"
-- Such a wonderful little woman," she said, repeating her description of the old woman, and slightly smiled.
-- You know, Aline has organized a wonderful asylum for Magdalens.
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