way是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 道路, 路程; 方法/式, 手段; 习惯; 状态,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《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He turned round in a helpless way and took a second glass of the excellent vicar's very inferior sherry.
-- They wanted him to lead the way upstairs to the room, but he didn't seem to be in any hurry.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In some way he must have lived during the interval.
-- In some indefinable way the black face thus flashed upon me shocked me profoundly.
-- I had paused half way through the hatchway, looking back, still astonished beyond measure at the grotesque ug-liness of this black-faced creature.
-- I had never beheld such a repulsive and extraordinary face before, and yet if the contradiction is credible I experienced at the same time an odd feeling that in some way I had already encountered exactly the features and gestures that now amazed me.
-- Half way up was a square enclosure of some greyish stone, which I found subsequently was built partly of coral and partly of pumiceous lava.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The baby was pushing his way between the cubs to get close to the warm hide.
-- Their way is not our way.
-- That happened to be the least ruined of any, and the big snake was delayed awhile before he could find a way up the stones.
-- He worked his way desperately, inch by inch, straight for the reservoirs, halting in silence.
-- A crash and a splash told Mowgli that Bagheera had fought his way to the tank where the monkeys could not follow.
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:
-- Winding its way among countless islands, and imbedded in mountains, the 'holy lake' extended a dozen leagues still further to the south.
-- As they traversed that short distance, not a voice was heard among them; but a slight exclamation proceed-ed from the younger of the females, as the Indian runner glided by her, unexpectedly, and led the way along the mil-itary road in her front.
-- The young man regard-ed the last speaker in open admiration, and even permitted her fairer, though certainly not more beautiful compan-ion, to proceed unattended, while he sedulously opened the way himself for the passage of her who has been called Cora.
-- The youth had turned to speak to the dark-eyed Cora, when the dis-tant sound of horses hoofs, clattering over the roots of the broken way in his rear, caused him to check his charger; and, as his companions drew their reins at the same instant, the whole party came to a halt, in order to obtain an expla-nation of the unlooked-for interruption.
-- Perhaps the rapidity of the changes from one of these paces to the other created an optical illusion, which might thus magnify the powers of the beast; for it is certain that Hey-ward, who possessed a true eye for the merits of a horse, was unable, with his utmost ingenuity, to decide by what sort of movement his pursuer worked his sinuous way on his foot-steps with such persevering hardihood.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
-- Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that -ingenious way which is commonly denominated 'by hook and by crook,' the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of the la-bor of headwork, to have a wonderfully easy life of it.
-- Then, as he wended his way by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farm-house where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagina-tion, the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside, the boding cry of the tree toad, that harbinger of storm, the dreary hooting of the screech owl, to the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost.
-- In this enterprise, however, he had more real difficulties than generally fell to the lot of a knight-errant of yore, who seldom had anything but giants, enchanters, fiery dragons, and such like easily conquered adversaries, to contend with and had to make his way mere-ly through gates of iron and brass, and walls of adamant to the castle keep, where the lady of his heart was confined; all which he achieved as easily as a man would carve his way to the centre of a Christmas pie; and then the lady gave him her hand as a matter of course.
-- Ichabod, on the con-trary, had to win his way to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments; and he had to encounter a host of fearful adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her heart, keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor.
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:
-- What chance is there that any book will make its way among that multitude?
-- The wiser go their way with a decent grace.
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