sorrow是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 悲衰, 悲痛,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- John Mangles did not reply immediately; he hesitated between the sorrow it would cause the two children to give up the search, and the fear of compromising the expedition.
-- Among the savages, sorrow is always manifested by physical signs; the parents and friends of deceased warriors, the women especially, lacerated their faces and shoulders with sharpened shells.
-- Sleep, which keeps all sorrow in abeyance, soon weighed down their eyelids; they slept in each other's arms, overcome by exhaustion and prolonged watching.
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 tell you I was the eye-witness of the nightly sorrow and groan-ings of the great man, and of that no one can speak but myself.
-- Everyone seemed to be speaking prophetically, hinting at some misfortune or sorrow to come; they had all looked at him as though they knew something which he did not know.
-- 'Oh, my dear fellow,' cried Evgenie, warmly, with real sorrow in his voice, 'how could you permit all that to come about as it has?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With all sincerity and goodwill, therefore, he addressed them thus: 'Of a truth,' he said, 'a great sorrow has befallen the Achaean land.
-- Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight.
-- 'Chryses,' said he, 'King Agamemnon has sent me to bring you back your child, and to offer sacrifice to Apollo on behalf of the Danaans, that we may propitiate the god, who has now brought sorrow upon the Argives.'
-- He showed us favourable signs by flashing his lightning on our right hands; therefore let none make haste to go till he has first lain with the wife of some Trojan, and avenged the toil and sorrow that he has suffered for the sake of Helen.
-- Among them went Menelaus himself, strong in zeal, urging his men to fight; for he longed to avenge the toil and sorrow that he had suffered for the sake of Helen.
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 reply of Heyward was interrupted by a groan from Munro; but after he had paused a moment, in deference to the sorrow of his aged friend he resumed the subject.
-- Heyward was also nigh, support-ing himself against a tree, and endeavoring to keep down those sudden risings of sorrow that it required his utmost manhood to subdue.
-- They doubted not that she was lovely in the eyes of the young chief, whose skin and whose sorrow seemed so like her own; but though far from expressing such a preference, it was evident they deemed her less excellent than the maid they mourned.
-- His friends pressed around him with a sorrow that was too strong to be termed sympathy even the young Frenchman joining in the procession, with the air of a man who was sensibly touched at the early and melancholy fate of one so lovely.
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:
-- He was getting something of a paunch, and sorrow had no effect on it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER 9The child, in her confidence with Mrs Quilp, had but feebly described the sadness and sorrow of her thoughts, or the heaviness of the cloud which overhung her home, and cast dark shadows on its hearth.
-- Surrounded by unfeeling creditors, and mercenary attendants upon the sick, and meeting in the height of her anxiety and sorrow with little regard or sympathy even from the women about her, it is not surprising that the affectionate heart of the child should have been touched to the quick by one kind and generous spirit, however uncouth the temple in which it dwelt.
-- She stole away to bed as quickly as she could, and when she was alone, gave free vent to the sorrow with which her breast was overcharged.
-- Cause for deeper and heavier sorrow was yet to come.
-- It was not the lightest part of her sorrow to know that this was done for her.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On awakening the following morning, Nekhludoff's first feeling was one of sorrow for the unpleasant incident with his brother-in-law.
-- You want to see the political prisoner, and you all sorrow for him, and the soldier on guard will surely take money, because he has a family, and his salary amounts to something less than nothing; he cannot afford to refuse.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, in this old familiar room, it is more like the sorrow of a dream than an actual loss.
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