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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And I would have you believe, my sons, that the same Justice which punishes sin may also most graciously forgive it, and that no ban is so heavy but that by prayer and repentance it may be removed.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I repeat I dare say I have committed many a grievous sin in my day; but I cannot help always looking back upon this as the worst action I have ever perpetrated.'
-- It is manifest that, pricked by remorse for my client is re-ligious, in his way, and has a conscience, as I shall prove later and desiring to extenuate his sin as far as possible, he has tried six times at least to substitute lay nourishment for clerical.
-- But I must confess one sin against you I love you.
-- 'It is as clear as possible, and most comprehensible, that you, in your enthusiasm, should plunge headlong into the first chance that came of publicly airing your great idea that you, a prince, and a pure-living man, did not consider a woman disgraced if the sin were not her own, but that of a disgusting social libertine!Oh, heavens!it's comprehensible enough, my dear prince, but that is not the question, unfortunately!The question is, was there any reality and truth in your feelings?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then they poured wine from the mixing-bowl into the cups, and prayed to the everlasting gods, saying, Trojans and Achae-ans among one another, 'Jove, most great and glorious, and ye other everlasting gods, grant that the brains of them who shall first sin against their oaths of them and their chil-dren may be shed upon the ground even as this wine, and let their wives become the slaves of strangers.'
-- Daring, head-strong, evil-doer who recked not of his sin in shooting the gods that dwell in Olympus.
-- Still, brother, come in and rest upon this seat, for it is you who bear the brunt of that toil that has been caused by my hateful self and by the sin of Alexan-drus both of whom Jove has doomed to be a theme of song among those that shall be born hereafter.'
-- Achilles will not kill him nor let another do so, for he will take heed to his ways and sin not, and he will entreat a suppliant with all honourable courtesy.'
-- When he has brought you within Achilles' tent, Achilles will not kill you nor let another do so, for he will take heed to his ways and sin not, and he will entreat a suppliant with all honourable courtesy.'
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:
-- The stranger regarded his interrogator a moment in won-der; and then, losing every mark of self-satisfaction in an expression of solemn humility, he answered: 'Of offense, I hope there is none, to either party: ofdefense, I make none by God's good mercy, having com-mitted no palpable sin since last entreating his pardoning grace.
-- She was spared the sin of such a prayer for, maddened at his disappointment, and ex-cited at the sight of blood, the Huron mercifully drove his tomahawk into her own brain.
-- I hold it a sin to kill the second buck afore the first is eaten, unless a march in front, or an ambush-ment, be contemplated.
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:
-- I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was another world, where sin and sorrow never came; a tranquil place of rest, where nothing evil entered.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- New York Street & Smith, Publishers 238 William Street Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1900 By Street & Smith In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C. "Then came Peter to Him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?
-- ; v. 3._ "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."
-- But now, this fortuitous meeting brought everything to his mind, and compelled the acknowledgment of his heartlessness, cruelty and baseness which made it possible for him to live undisturbed by the sin which lay on his conscience.
-- How to blot out his sin against Katiousha?
-- And his determination of the day before to tell everything to her husband, to confess his sin before him, and to hold himself ready for any satisfaction he might demand, came to his mind.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This appeared so clear to me now, that nothing was a greater satisfaction to me than that I had not been suffered to do a thing which I now saw so much rea-son to believe would have been no less a sin than that of wilful murder if I had committed it; and I gave most hum-ble thanks on my knees to God, that He had thus delivered me from blood-guiltiness; beseeching Him to grant me the protection of His providence, that I might not fall into the hands of the barbarians, or that I might not lay my hands upon them, unless I had a more clear call from Heaven to do it, in defence of my own life.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It would get so dark that it looked all blue-black outside, and lovely; and the rain would thrash along by so thick that the trees off a little ways looked dim and spider- webby; and here would come a blast of wind that would bend the trees down and turn up the pale under- side of the leaves; and then a perfect ripper of a gust would fol-low along and set the branches to tossing their arms as if they was just wild; and next, when it was just about the blu-est and blackest FST!it was as bright as glory, and you'd have a little glimpse of tree- tops a-plunging about away off yonder in the storm, hundreds of yards further than you could see before; dark as sin again in a second, and now you'd hear the thunder let go with an awful crash, and then go rum- bling, grumbling, tumbling, down the sky towards the under side of the world, like rolling empty barrels down stairs where it's long stairs and they bounce a good deal, you know.
-- come, all that's worn and soiled and suffering! come with a broken spirit!come with a con-trite heart!come in your rags and sin and dirt!the waters that cleanse is free, the door of heaven stands open oh, enter in and be at rest!'
-- I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now.
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