square是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 正方形的, 直角的, 公平的 n. 正方形, 广场, 平方,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Consequently, another drawer, and two porters, and several maids and the landlady, were all loitering by accident at various points of the road between the Concord and the coffee-room, when a gentleman of sixty, formally dressed in a brown suit of clothes, pretty well worn, but very well kept, with large square cuffs and large flaps to the pockets, passed along on his way to his breakfast.
-- As there was no business objection to this, 377and as he foresaw that even if it were all well with Charles, and he were to be released, he could not hope to leave the city, Mr. Lorry went out in quest of such a lodging, and found a suitable one, high up in a removed by-street where the closed blinds in all the other windows of a high melan-choly square of buildings marked deserted homes.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The bridge leading to Palace Square was not to be found; scarcely trusting his senses, the nocturnal wanderer discovered a shallow piece of water, and here fell in with two men who very comfort-ably were rocking to and fro in a boat.
-- It was not long after this, that Kay came one day with large gloves on, and his little sledge at his back, and bawled right into Gerda's ears, 'I have permission to go out into the square where the others are playing"; and off he was in a moment.
-- The sledge drove round the square twice, and Kay tied on his sledge as quickly as he could, and off he drove with it.
-- She was very beautiful; a more clever, or a more lovely countenance he could not fancy to himself; and she no longer appeared of ice as before, when she sat outside the window, and beckoned to him; in his eyes she was perfect, he did not fear her at all, and told her that he could calculate in his head and with fractions, even; that he knew the number of square miles there were in the differ-ent countries, and how many inhabitants they contained; and she smiled while he spoke.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Impossible, as it seems to me.... For the three thousand square miles of our district, what with our thaws, and the storms, and the work in the fields, I don't see how it is possible to provide medical aid all over.
-- "I'll see this minute," answered the porter, and glancing into his room, he took out and gave her the thin square envelope of a telegram.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS ONLY TOO GLAD TO GET OFF WITH THE LOSS OF HIS SHOESEverybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
-- But British India, properly so called, only embraces seven hundred thousand square miles, and a population of from one hundred to one hundred and ten millions of inhabitants.
-- Having purchased the usual quota of shirts and shoes, he took a leisurely promenade about the streets, where crowds of people of many nationalities Europeans, Persians with pointed caps, Banyas with round turbans, Sindes with square bonnets, Parsees with black mitres, and long-robed Armenians were collected.
-- Below deck was a square cabin, of which the walls bulged out in the form of cots, above a circular divan; in the centre was a table provided with a swinging lamp.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- III He found for Leora a room on the frayed northern edge of Zenith, miles nearer Mohalis and the University than her hospital had been; a square white and blue room, with blotchy but shoulder- wise chairs.
-- The surgeon, in long white gown, white turban, and pale orange rubber gloves, made his swift incision in the square of yellowish flesh exposed between towels, cutting deep into layers of fat, and Martin looked on unmoved as the first blood menacingly followed the cut.
-- While the other rickety cars of the village announced to the world, or at least to several square miles of the world, that Wheatsylvania was the "Wonder Town of Central N. D.," Martin's clattering Ford went bare; and when his enemy Norblom remarked, "I like to see a fellow have some public spirit and appreciate the place he gets his money outa," the citizenry nodded and spat, and began to question Martin's fame as a worker of miracles.
-- Then he was on the tiny square platform at the bottom of the accommodation-ladder, the ship's side was high above him, lit by the round ports of cabins, and someone was helping him into the launch.
-- The square was rimmed with the gloom of mango trees, which shut out the faint-hearted breeze and cooped in the heat--stale lifeless heat, in whose misery the leering silence was the more dismaying.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After eight months' imprisonment he was with twenty-one others tak-en out to the Semyonovsky Square to be shot.
-- 'Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain stand-ing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once!Only to live, to live and live!Life, whatever it may be!芒聙娄 How true it is!Good God, how true!Man is a vile creature!芒聙娄 And vile is he who calls him vile for that,' he added a moment later.
-- There'll be the square yard of space ha!But what an end!
-- 'And I was ready to consent to live in a square of space!
-- His flaxen hair was still abundant, and only touched here and there with grey, and his thick square beard was even lighter than his hair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Salem House was a square brick building with wings, of a bare andunfurnished appearance.
-- I followed the young woman, and we soon cameto a very neat little cottage with cheerful bow-windows: in front ofit, a small square gravelled court or garden full of flowers,carefully tended, and smelling deliciously.
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