stuff是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 原料; 材料; 素质, 本质; 东西, 物品; vt. 把…装满, 塞进,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the fire sput-tered and cracked noisily.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The bronze face, the shaggy black hair and beard, the coarse woollen red cap, the rough medley dress of home-spun stuff and hairy skins of beasts, the powerful frame attenuated by spare living, and the sullen and desper-ate compression of the lips in sleep, inspired the mender of roads with awe.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Had I such a suit, I might at once find out what men in my realms are unfit for their office, and also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish!This stuff must be woven for me immediately.'
-- 'You do not say whether the stuff pleases you.'
-- 'Does not the stuff appear as beautiful to you, as it did to my lord the minister?'
-- And accordingly he praised the stuff he could not see, and declared that he was delighted with both colors and pat-terns.
-- She pours water out of the teapot over a piece of stuff which she holds in her hand; it is the bodice; cleanliness is a fine thing.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter 9 The old neglected palazzo, with its lofty carved ceilings and frescoes on the walls, with its floors of mosaic, with its heavy yellow stuff curtains on the windows, with its vases on pedestals, and its open fireplaces, its carved doors and gloomy reception rooms, hung with pictures--this palazzo did much, by its very appearance after they had moved into it, to confirm in Vronsky the agreeable illusion that he was not so much a Russian country gentleman, a retired army officer, as an enlightened amateur and patron of the arts, himself a modest artist who had renounced the world, his connections, and his ambition for the sake of the woman he loved.
-- And what stuff it is she's reading!but she has a good accent.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They saw him frown at it, tap it on his knuckles, begin to read it, stuff it back into his pocket, and go on with a more resolute step.
-- Gottlieb twitched out the cotton plug with his little finger, so neatly that the medical students who had complained, "Bacteriology is junk; urinalysis and blood tests are all the lab stuff we need to know," now gave him something of the respect they had for a man who could do card tricks or remove an appendix in seven minutes.
-- Isn't it just rotten fossil fish--isn't it like the mummy-dust and puppy- ear stuff they used to give in the olden days?"
-- I realize all the stuff we're missing: music and literature, yes, and decent clothes, too--no harm to dressing well--" "That's just what I was tellin' you!She'll have you all dolled up in a Prince Albert and a boiled shirt, diagnosing everything as rich-widowitis.
-- "Good boy!I thought you were going to pull that 'If you are a roughneck, I don't see why you think you've got to boast about it' stuff that Mart springs on me!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But confound them all now!They won't notice me, and I need a little fresh air, for you've come just in the nick of time another two minutes and I should have come to blows!They are talking such a lot of wild stuff 芒聙娄 you simply can't imagine what men will say!
-- and not only that!There's an attraction here here you have the end of the world, an anchorage, a quiet haven, the na-vel of the earth, the three fishes that are the foundation of the world, the essence of pancakes, of savoury fish- pies, of the evening samovar, of soft sighs and warm shawls, and hot stoves to sleep on as snug as though you were dead, and yet you're alive the advantages of both at once!Well, hang it, brother, what stuff I'm talking, it's bedtime!Listen.
-- She was wearing a dress of thin dark stuff and she had a white transparent scarf round her neck.
-- 'Ach, what silly stuff I am talking, eh?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Stuff and nonsense, Trot!'
-- Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity,may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount,but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wearand tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, andsincere earnestness.
-- 'Stuff and nonsense!'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Perhaps he's made of different stuff than to wear 'em," said Gabriel, grimly.
-- She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.
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