stoop是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 弯腰, 俯身; 屈从, 堕落, 沦为,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:
-- But sud-denly it occurred to him that he might stoop down under the table, and then creep unobserved out of the door.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Behind him he heard voices: "It's not set right; handle's too high; see how he has to stoop to it," said one.
-- Stop a minute, stoop down," said Kitty's sister, Madame Lvova, and with her plump, handsome arms she smilingly set straight the flowers on her head.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But as he repeated the fables of his fathers it did not occur to him to believe them, or to stoop in fear before their God of Wrath--or to gain ease by permitting Hunziker to defile his discovery.
-- At sunset he sat on the back stoop (a very interesting and not too broken soap-box) and from the flamboyant horizon the open country flowed across the thin band of the railroad to his feet.
-- They came with letters and photographs amid the frayed clean linen in their shabby suit-cases- -at any opportunity they would stoop over their bags and hopefully bring out testimonials from their Pastors; they begged for a chance to heal humanity, and for themselves only enough money to send The Girl to musical conservatory.
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:
-- 'I divined then, Sonia,' he went on eagerly, 'that power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up.
-- Whether I can step over barriers or not, whether I dare stoop to pick up or not, whether I am a trembling crea-ture or whether I have the right 芒聙娄' 'To kill?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How Harriet could ever have had the presumption 506 Emmato raise her thoughts to Mr. Knightley! How she could dare to fancy herself the chosen of such a man till actual-ly assured of it! But Harriet was less humble, had fewer scruples than formerly. Her inferiority, whether of mind or situation, seemed little felt. She had seemed more sen-sible of Mr. Elton's being to stoop in marrying her, than she now seemed of Mr. Knightley's. Alas!was not that her own doing too?
-- I dared not address her openly; my difficulties in the then state of Enscombe must be too well known to require definition; and I was fortunate enough to prevail, before we parted at Weymouth, and to induce the most up-right female mind in the creation to stoop in charity to a secret engagement. Had she refused, I should have gone mad. But you will be ready to say, what was your hope in doing this? What did you look forward to? To any thing, every thing to time, chance, circumstance, slow effects, sudden bursts, perseverance and weariness, health and sick-ness.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She saw him stoop to the grass, pick up the winding lock which he had severed from her manifold tresses, twist it round his fingers, unfasten a button in the breast of his coat, and carefully put it inside.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It almost seemed to me as if he must stoop down presently, to file at his leg.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Nay,' said the maid, 'if you are thirsty, get off yourself, and stoop down by the water and drink; I shall not be your waiting- maid any longer.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Once a kite, hover-ing over the garden, made a stoop at me, and if I had not resolutely drawn my hanger, and run under a thick espalier, he would have certainly carried me away in his talons.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And when I came to stoop down and look up at his face, I saw that he was crying.
-- In another moment, he stood as he had stood all the time his usual stoop upon him; his pondering face addressed to Mr. Bounderby, with a curious expression on it, half shrewd, half perplexed, as if his mind were set upon unravelling something very difficult; his hat held tight in his left hand, which rested on his hip; his right arm, with a rugged propriety and force of action, very earnestly emphasizing what he said: not least so when it always paused, a little bent, but not withdrawn, as he paused.
-- 'Oh, my fellow-men, behold of what a traitor in the camp of those great spirits who are enrolled upon the holy scroll of Justice and of Union, is appropriately capable!Oh, my prostrate friends, with the galling yoke of tyrants on your necks and the iron foot of despotism treading down your fallen forms into the dust of the earth, upon which right glad would your oppressors be to see you creeping on your bellies all the days of your lives, like the serpent in the garden oh, my brothers, and shall I as a man not add, my sisters too, what do you say, now, of Stephen Blackpool, with a slight stoop in his shoulders and about five foot seven in height, as set forth in this degrading and disgusting document, this blighting bill, this pernicious placard, this abominable advertisement; and with what majesty of denouncement will you crush the viper, who would bring this stain and shame upon the God-like race that happily has cast him out for ever!Yes, my compatriots, happily cast him out and sent him forth!For you remember how he stood here before you on this platform; you remember how, face to face and foot to foot, I pursued him through all his intricate windings; you remember how he sneaked and slunk, and sidled, and splitted of straws, until, with not an inch of ground to which to cling, I hurled him out from amongst us: an object for the undying finger of scorn to point at, and for the avenging fire of every free and thinking mind to scorch and scar!And now, my friends my labouring friends, for I rejoice and triumph in that stigma my friends whose hard but honest beds are made in toil, and whose scanty but independent pots are boiled in hardship; and now, I say, my friends, what appellation has that dastard craven taken to himself, when, with the mask torn from his features, he stands before us in all his native deformity, a What?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You would have me stoop as low as the ground before this Mrs Merdle, and let her say what she liked and do what she liked, and hold us all in contempt, and tell me so to my face.
-- Why she should then stoop down and look in at the keyhole of the door as if an eye would open it, it would be difficult to say; but it is none the less what most people would have done in the same situation, and it is what she did.
-- I told him I did, and it was because I did and meant to do so to the last, that I would not stoop to propitiate any of them.
-- On the preceding occasion, one or two of the Bleeding Heart Yarders had obsequiously picked it up and handed it to its owner; but Mr Pancks had now so far impressed his audience, that the Patriarch had to turn and stoop for it himself.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She forgot every word of it, hung her head, and answered, 'I don't know,' so softly that John had to stoop down to catch the foolish little reply.
-- Stoop down, and let me take the crumbs off of your bon-net.'
-- Come, then, and take a goot hug from him, my Tina,' said the Professor, catching her up with a laugh, and holding her so high over his head that she had to stoop her little face to kiss him.
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