end是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 末端, 端, 梢; 目标, 目的v. 终止, 结束,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:
-- The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dan-gling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.
-- asked a red-faced gentleman with a pendulous excrescence on the end of his nose, that shook like the gills of a turkey-cock.
-- 'This is the end of it, you see.
-- Indeed, the Spirit did not stay for anything, but went straight on, as to the end just now de-sired, until besought by Scrooge to tarry for a moment.
-- 100 Sons and Lovers Stave 5: The End of It es!and the bedpost was his own.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Lorry had been idle a long time, and had just poured out his last glassful of wine with as complete an appearance of satisfaction as is ever to be found in an elderly gentleman of a fresh complexion who has got to the end of a bottle, when a rattling of wheels came up the narrow street, and rumbled into the inn-yard.
-- The end of the first book.
-- That, for these rea-sons, the jury, being a loyal jury (as he knew they were), and being a responsible jury (as THEY knew they were), must positively find the prisoner Guilty, and make an end of him, whether they liked it or not.
-- He moved from end to end of his voluptuous bedroom, looking again at the scraps of the day's journey that came unbidden into his mind; the slow toil up the hill at sunset, the setting sun, the descent, the mill, the prison on the crag, the little village in the hollow, the peasants at the fountain, and the mender of roads with his blue cap pointing out the 178 A tale of two citieschain under the carriage.
-- Mr. Stryver sucked the end of a ruler for a little while, and then stood hitting a tune out of his teeth with it, which probably gave him the toothache.
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:
-- So off he went in the direction of East Street, and had nearly got to the end of it when the moon shone forth.
-- cried he involuntarily, as he looked at East Gate, which, in those days, was at the end of East Street.
-- 'It is really dreadful,' groaned he with increasing anxiety; 'I cannot recognise East Street again; there is not a single de-cent shop from one end to the other!Nothing but wretched huts can I see anywhere; just as if I were at Ringstead.
-- 'What's to be the end of this!What's to become of me!'
-- But that the end of it, like the Rhine, was very insignificant, proved, in his opinion, the author's want of invention; he was with-out genius, etc.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The petitioner, the widow of a staff captain Kalinin, came with a request impossible and unreasonable; but Stepan Arkadyevitch, as he generally did, made her sit down, heard her to the end attentively without interrupting her, and gave her detailed advice as to how and to whom to apply, and even wrote her, in his large, sprawling, good and legible hand, a confident and fluent little note to a personage who might be of use to her.
-- She was standing talking to a lady at the opposite end of the ground.
-- The thought that if he were held in check by her tone of quiet friendliness he would end by going back again without deciding anything came into his mind, and he resolved to make a struggle against it.
-- Chapter 15 At the end of the evening Kitty told her mother of her conversation with Levin, and in spite of all the pity she felt for Levin, she was glad at the thought that she had received an OFFER.
-- She went to the furthest end of the little drawing room and sank into a low chair.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He took it up, scrutinised it, passed it to his neighbour, he to the next man, and so on until the ingot, going from hand to hand, was transferred to the end of a dark entry; nor did it return to its place for half an hour.
-- Master and man then descended, the street-door was double-locked, and at the end of Saville Row they took a cab and drove rapidly to Charing Cross.
-- The mysterious habits of Phileas Fogg were recalled; his solitary ways, his sudden departure; and it seemed clear that, in undertaking a tour round the world on the pretext of a wager, he had had no other end in view than to elude the detectives, and throw them off his track.
-- It is thirteen hundred and ten miles from Suez to Aden, at the other end of the Red Sea, and she has to take in a fresh coal supply."
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