sin是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 罪, 罪恶v. 犯罪,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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "That's why I like you!You are the only frank woman I know, the only woman who looks on the practical side ofmatters without beclouding the issue with mouthings about sin and morality.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then Gretel called out to her master: 'If the guest does not come, I must take the fowls away from the fire, but it will be a sin and a shame if they are not eaten the moment they are at their juiciest.'
-- She touched it with her fin-ger, and said: 'Ah!how good fowls are!It certainly is a sin and a shame that they are not eaten at the right time!'
-- 357When the courtiers heard this they were shocked, and said, 'Heaven forbid that a father should marry his daughter!Out of so great a sin no good can come.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'One of us would be puzzled how to get old, Stephen, without 't other getting so too, both being alive,' she answered, laughing; 'but, anyways, we're such old friends, and t' hide a word of honest truth fro' one another would be a sin and a pity.
-- Thou knowest who said, "Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone at her!"
-- I ha' never had no fratch afore, sin ever I were born, wi' any o' my like; Gonnows I ha' none now that's o' my makin'.
-- I ha nobbut work to live by; and wheerever can I go, I who ha worked sin I were no heighth at aw, in Coketown heer?
-- 'I'd leefer not coom to 't, sir; but sin you put th' question an' not want'n t' be ill-manner'n I'll answer.
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:
-- To find a man who dared do it, without shame or sin or final misgiving!If he had been ashamed afterwards, and made one feel ashamed, how awful!What a pity most men are so doggy, a bit shameful, like Clifford!Like Mi-chaelis even!Both sensually a bit doggy and humiliating.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the constant effort not to be betrayed into a new phase of the besetting sin of his experience, the pursuit of selfish objects by low and small means, and to hold instead to some high principle of honour and generosity, there might have been a little merit.
-- And had not I, unworthy and far-removed from them, sin to denounce?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- T. TUPMAN Mr. Pickwick, Sir:I address you upon the subject of sin the sinner I mean is a man named Winkle who makes trou-ble in his club by laughing and sometimes won't write his piece in this fine paper I hope you will pardon his badness and let him send a French fable because he can't write out of his head as he has so many lessons to do and no brains in fu-ture I will try to take time by the fetlock and prepare some work which will be all commy la fo that means all right I am in haste as it is nearly school time Yours respectably, N. WINKLE [The above is a manly and handsome aknowledgment of past misdemeanors.
-- For a minute Jo's heart stood still, as he swung himself down the bank toward the river, but it takes much folly, sin or misery to send a young man to a violent death, and Lau-rie was not one of the weak sort who are conquered by a single failure.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As with all sinners among men, the sin of this son of Amittai was in his wilful disobedience of the command of God never mind now what that command was, or how conveyed which he found a hard command.
-- "With this sin of disobedience in him, Jonah still further flouts at God, by seeking to flee from Him.
-- In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
-- Shipmates, I do not place Jonah before you to be copied for his sin but I do place him before you as a model for repentance.
-- Sin not; but if you do, take heed to repent of it like Jonah."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Putting a glass of hot gin-and-water on the chimney-piece, he drew his chair to the fire; and, with sundry moral reflections on the too-prevalent sin of discontent and complaining, composed himself to read the paper.
-- CHAPTER XVIII HOW OLIVER PASSED HIS TIME IN THE IMPROVING SOCIETY OF HIS REPUTABLE FRIENDS About noon next day, when the Dodger and Master Bates had gone out to pursue their customary avocations, Mr. Fagin took the opportunity of reading Oliver a long lecture on the crying sin of ingratitude; of which he clearly demonstrated he had been guilty, to no ordinary extent, in wilfully absenting himself from the society of his anxious friends; and, still more, in endeavouring to escape from them after so much trouble and expense had been incurred in his recovery.
-- 'The sin and wickedness of the lower orders in this porochial district is frightful!If Parliament don't take their abominable courses under consideration, this country's ruined, and the character of the peasantry gone for ever!'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the relating what is already past of my story, this will be the more easily believed when I shall add, that through all the variety of miseries that had to this day befallen me, I never had so much as one thought of it being the hand of God, or that it was a just punishment for my sin - my re-bellious behaviour against my father - or my present sins, which were great - or so much as a punishment for the gen-eral course of my wicked life.
-- And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true sense of things, they will find deliverance from sin a much greater blessing than deliverance from affliction.
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