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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was dressed like a toff, and he had a black beard, cut square at the end, and a pale face.
-- He was a remarkable-looking man, tall, handsome, with a square black beard and pale, distinguished features.
-- A square balustraded gallery ran round the top of the old hall, approached by a double stair.
-- And then I gave a cry of exultation, for a tiny pin-point of yellow light had suddenly transfixed the dark veil, and glowed steadily in the centre of the black square framed by the window.
-- Already the first thin wisps of it were curling across the golden square of the lighted window.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Oh, a long way off, near the Great Theatre, just in the square there It won't be a large party.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Presently two oblongs of yellow light appeared through the trees, and the square tower of a church loomed through the gloaming.
-- At the northward corner of the Square a little white dog ran out of the Pharmaceutical Society's offices, and incontinently made for me, nose down.
-- Happily the dog stopped at the noise of the band too, hesitated, and turned tail, running back to Bloomsbury Square again.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- - These three days I spent in making lit-tle square chests, or boxes, which might hold about a pound, or two pounds at most, of powder; and so, putting the pow-der in, I stowed it in places as secure and remote from one another as possible.
-- - Having been somewhat refreshed with the sleep I had had, and the fit being entirely off, I got up; and though the fright and terror of my dream was very great, yet I considered that the fit of the ague would return again the next day, and now was my time to get something to re-fresh and support myself when I should be ill; and the first thing I did, I filled a large square case-bottle with water, and set it upon my table, in reach of my bed; and to take off the chill or aguish disposition of the water, I put about a quarter of a pint of rum into it, and mixed them together.
-- These I burned in the fire, as I had done the other, and laid them by; and when I wanted to bake, I made a great fire upon my hearth, which I had paved with some square tiles of my own baking and burning also; but I should not call them square.
-- I told him with freedom, I feared mostly their treachery and ill- us-age of me, if I put my life in their hands; for that gratitude was no inherent virtue in the nature of man, nor did men always square their dealings by the obligations they had re-ceived so much as they did by the advantages they expected.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Very early in April, and tolerably early in the day, the two parties from Hanover Square and Berkeley Street set out from their respective homes, to meet, by appointment, on the road.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Its streets and houses were already scattered over an area of seventy-five square miles.
-- Polished brass or nickel signs at the square stone entrances announced the firm and the nature of the business in rather neat and reserved terms.
-- At Fifty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue a blaze of lights from several new hotels which bordered the Plaza Square gave a suggestion of sumptuous hotel life.
-- On the walls were designs in colour, square spots of robin's-egg blue, set in ornate frames of gilt, whose corners were elaborate mouldings of fruit and flowers, with fat cupids hovering in angelic comfort.
-- Across the way, through Madison Square Park, stood the great hotels, looking down upon a busy scene.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They talked it over, and they was going to rule me out, because they said every boy must have a family or some-body to kill, or else it wouldn't be fair and square for the others.
-- An-swer up square now, and it'll be the better for you.'
-- Well, he took in nine dollars and a half, and said he'd done a pretty square day's work for it.
-- So these two frauds said they'd go and fetch it up, and have everything square and above- board; and told me to come with a candle.
-- We want to be awful square and open and above-board here, you know.
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