kite是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 风筝,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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If he likes to fly a kite sometimes, what of that!
-- And a Quaker flying a kite is a muchmore ridiculous object than anybody else.'
-- What he had told me,in his room, about his belief in its disseminating the statementspasted on it, which were nothing but old leaves of abortiveMemorials, might have been a fancy with him sometimes; but notwhen he was out, looking up at the kite in the sky, and feeling itpull and tug at his hand.
-- I used to fancy, as I sat by him of an evening, on a green slope, andsaw him watch the kite high in the quiet air, that it lifted his mindout of its confusion, and bore it (such was my boyish thought) intothe skies.
-- But, on hearing from my aunt that I should sometimes come overon a Saturday, and that he could sometimes come and see me on aWednesday, he revived, and vowed to make another kite for thoseoccasions, of proportions greatly surpassing the present one.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I shall never forget his flying Henry's kite for him that very windy day last Easter and ever since his particular kindness last September twelvemonth in writing that note, at twelve o'clock at night, on purpose to assure me that there was no scarlet fever at Cobham, I have been con-vinced there could not be a more feeling heart nor a better man in existence. If any body can deserve him, it must be Miss Taylor.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mowgli's Brothers Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we.
-- It was useless to look down, for he could only see the topsides of the branches, so he stared upward and saw, far away in the blue, Rann the Kite balancing and wheeling as he kept watch over the jungle waiting for things to die.
-- He whistled with surprise when he saw Mowgli being dragged up to a treetop and heard him give the Kite call for 'We be of one blood, thou and I.'
-- The sun makes the rocks dance in the heat, and the herd children hear one kite (nev-er any more) whistling almost out of sight overhead, and they know that if they died, or a cow died, that kite would sweep down, and the next kite miles away would see him drop and follow, and the next, and the next, and almost be-fore they were dead there would be a score of hungry kites come out of nowhere.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I suppose the others are torn up to rig ships, bandage cut fingers, or make kite tails.
-- said Jo, as she constructed a kite for Demi in the topsy-tur-vy nursery.
-- Boys go nutting, and I don't care to be bagged by them,' returned Jo, pasting away at the kite which no wind that blows would ever carry up, for Daisy had tied herself on as a bob.
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