weary是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 疲倦的, 困乏的; 令人厌倦的,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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had obtained, by hard study, a good degree of knowl-216 Gulliver's Travelsedge in their language: I was weary of being confined to an island where I received so little countenance, and resolved to leave it with the first opportunity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He closed his eyes, more to please her than to rest his weary head; but, by slow degrees as he listened to the great noise of the wind, he ceased to hear it, or it changed into the working of his loom, or even into the voices of the day (his own included) saying what had been really said.
-- For it was to be seen with half an eye that he was a thorough gentleman, made to the model of the time; weary of everything, and putting no more faith in anything than Lucifer.
-- Most o' aw, rating 'em as so much Power, and reg'latin 'em as if they was figures in a soom, or machines: wi'out loves and likens, wi'out memories and inclinations, wi'out souls to weary and souls to hope when aw goes quiet, draggin on wi' 'em as if they'd nowt o' th' kind, and when aw goes onquiet, reproachin 'em for their want o' sitch humanly feelins in their dealins wi' yo this will never do 't, sir, till God's work is onmade.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had soon seen all I wanted of these weary and dismal thoroughfares.
-- Its magnificent snowy nightcap, as we began to call it, by an optical delusion very common in mountains, appeared to me to be close at hand; and yet how many long weary hours must elapse before we reached its summit.
-- A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT During a long, long, weary hour, there crossed my wildly delirious brain all sorts of reasons as to what could have aroused our quiet and faithful guide.
-- Again a half hour passed in the same weary toil.
-- Such were the last words which reached my anxious ears before I commenced my weary and almost hopeless journey.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A strange, weary yearning, a dissatisfaction had started in her.
-- '...it was a warm word to use for that great, weary warren.
-- No, no, she would give up her hard bright female power; she was weary of it, stiffened with it; she would sink in the new bath of life, in the depths of her womb and her bowels that sang the voiceless song of adoration.
-- It was very bad for him to get into these rages: Mrs Bolton had a weary time with him, for days after.
-- 'I'm weary o' manners.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of life.
-- Nothing for the spent toiler to do, but to compare the monotony of his seventh day with the monotony of his six days, think what a weary life he led, and make the best of it or the worst, according to the probabilities.
-- He was readmitted to the presence of Barnacle junior, and found that young gentleman singeing his knees now, and gaping his weary way on to four o'clock.
-- When the sun had raised his full disc above the flat line of the horizon, and was striking fire out of the long muddy vista of paved road with its weary avenue of little trees, a black speck moved along the road and splashed among the flaming pools of rain-water, which black speck was John Baptist Cavalletto running away from his patron.
-- Strange, if the little sick-room light were in effect a watch-light, burning in that place every night until an appointed event should be watched out!Which of the vast multitude of travellers, under the sun and the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another; which of the host may, with no suspicion of the journey's end, be travelling surely hither?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Weary Hannah slept on, and no one but the sisters saw the pale shadow which seemed to fall upon the little bed.
-- With a blissful sense of burdens lifted off, Meg and Jo closed their weary eyes, and lay at rest, like storm-beaten boats safe at anchor in a quiet harbor.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Further on, from the bright red windows of the "Sword-Fish Inn," there came such fervent rays, that it seemed to have melted the packed snow and ice from before the house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement, rather weary for me, when I struck my foot against the flinty projections, because from hard, remorseless service the soles of my boots were in a most miserable plight.
-- And poor little Flask, he was the youngest son, and little boy of this weary family party.
-- When in the Southern Fishery, a captured Sperm Whale, after long and weary toil, is brought alongside late at night, it is not, as a general thing at least, customary to proceed at once to the business of cutting him in.
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