beauty是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 美, 美丽; 美人, 美丽的事物,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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This lovely and beloved cat was the pet of a large circle of warm and admiring friends; for her beauty attract-ed all eyes, her graces and virtues endeared her to all hearts, and her loss is deeply felt by the whole community.
-- Down the page went the green guide, and presently, forgetting her listener in the beauty of the sad scene, Meg read as if alone, giving a little touch of tragedy to the words of the unhappy queen.
-- said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But he's a simple old soul, Rad, and a beauty too.
-- was the cry from captain, mates, and harpooneers, who, undeterred by fearful rumours, were all anxious to capture so famous and precious a fish; while the dogged crew eyed askance, and with curses, the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living opal in the blue morning sea.
-- Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks.
-- In no living thing are the lines of beauty more exquisitely defined than in the crescentic borders of these flukes.
-- On the contrary, those motions derive their most appalling beauty from it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were the faces of friends, and foes, and of many that had been almost strangers peering intrusively from the crowd; there were the faces of young and blooming girls that were now old women; there were faces that the grave had changed and closed upon, but which the mind, superior to its power, still dressed in their old freshness and beauty, calling back the lustre of the eyes, the brightness of the smile, the beaming of the soul through its mask of clay, and whispering of beauty beyond the tomb, changed but to be heightened, and taken from earth only to be set up as a light, to shed a soft and gentle glow upon the path to Heaven.
-- There was such peace and beauty in the scene; so much of brightness and mirth in the sunny landscape; such blithesome music in the songs of the summer birds; such freedom in the rapid flight of the rook, careering overhead; so much of life and joyousness in all; that, when the boy raised his aching eyes, and looked about, the thought instinctively occurred to him, that this was not a time for death; that Rose could surely never die when humbler things were all so glad and gay; that graves were for cold and cheerless winter: not for sunlight and fragrance.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'In such cases, a woman has not often much beauty to think of.'
-- He had entertained hopes of being admitted to a sight of the young ladies, of whose beauty he had heard much; but he saw only the father.
-- Darcy, on the contrary, had seen a collection of people in whom there was little beauty and no fashion, for none of whom he had felt the smallest interest, and from none received either attention or plea-sure.
-- You cannot refuse to dance, I am sure when so much beauty is before you.'
-- Here, leading the way through every walk and cross walk, and scarcely allowing them an interval to utter the praises he asked for, every view was pointed out with a minuteness which left beauty en-tirely behind.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His manly beauty and more than common gracefulness were instantly the theme of general admiration, and the laugh which his gallantry raised against Marianne received particular spirit from his exterior attractions. Marianne herself had seen less of his person than the rest, for the confusion which crimsoned over her face, on his lifting her up, had robbed her of the power of regarding him after their entering the house.
-- It exactly answers my idea of a fine country, because it unites beauty with utility and I dare say it is a picturesque one too, because you admire it; I can easily believe it to be full of rocks and promontories, grey moss and brush wood, but these are all lost on me.
-- Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was.
-- The youthful infatuation of nineteen would naturally blind him to every thing but her beauty and good nature; but the four succeeding years years, which if rationally spent, give such improvement to the understanding, must have opened his eyes to her defects of education, while the same period of time, spent on her side in inferior society and more frivolous pursuits, had perhaps robbed her of that simplicity which might once have given an interesting character to her beauty.
-- She sat in silence almost all the way, wrapt in her own meditations, and scarcely ever voluntarily speaking, except when any object of picturesque beauty within their view drew from her an exclamation of delight exclusively addressed to her sister.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He recognised the indescribable thing that made up for fascination and beauty in her.
-- She realised in a dim way how much the city held--wealth, fashion, ease--every adornment for women, and she longed for dress and beauty with a whole heart.
-- Remove the element so thoroughly and solely complained of--liquor--and there would not be one to gainsay the qualities of beauty and enthusiasm which would remain.
-- If she could but stroll up yon broad walk, cross that rich entrance-way, which to her was of the beauty of a jewel, and sweep in grace and luxury to possession and command--oh!how quickly would sadness flee; how, in an instant, would the heartache end.
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