moral是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 道德(上) 的, 精神上的n. 寓意, 教育意义,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:
-- Why, the ship we're on, of course—a good ship that has been commended to me, not only for its physical qualities, but also for the moral qualities of its commander, the brave Captain Burton.
-- However strong the will of these brave men might be, the time came at last when their physical powers failed, and vertigo, that terrible malady in the mountains, destroyed not only their bodily strength but their moral energy.
-- So the conversation ended—a conversation which great results were to follow; it completely changed the moral condition of the travelers; it gave the clew of the labyrinth in which they had thought themselves hopelessly entangled, and, amid their ruined projects, inspired them with fresh hope.
-- "It is a moral regeneration."
-- "A moral regeneration?"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You could draw a moral from either, and be quite satisfied.
-- 'Well, just now you said there were no honest nor good people about, that there were only money-grubbers and here they are quite close at hand, these honest and good people, your mother and Varia!I think there is a good deal of moral strength in helping people in suchcircum stances.'
-- Two more of Nastasia's guests, who walked a short dis-tance together, indulged in high moral sentiments of a similar nature.
-- Added to which he has had the moral satisfaction of seeing me disgraced.
-- Liberalism has just as much right to exist as has the most moral conservatism; but I am attacking RUSSIAN liberalism; and I attack it for the sim-ple reason that a Russian liberal is not a Russian liberal, he is a non-Russian liberal.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Very much indeed of what we call moral education, he said, is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.
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:
-- There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opin-ion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it.
-- They had recently seen a chosen army from that country, which, reverencing as a mother, they had blindly believed invincible an army led by a chief who had been selected from a crowd of trained warriors, for his rare military en-dowments, disgracefully routed by a handful of French and Indians, and only saved from annihilation by the coolness and spirit of a Virginian boy, whose riper fame has since diffused itself, with the steady influence of moral truth, to the uttermost confines of Christendom.
-- He well knew that the au-thority of an Indian chief was so little conventional, that it was oftener maintained by physical superiority than by any moral supremacy he might possess.
-- It is now becoming obscured by time; and thousands, who know that Montcalm died like a hero on the plains of Abraham, have yet to learn how much he was deficient in that moral cour-age without which no man can be truly great.
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:
-- Mr. Strickland has drawn the portrait of an excellent husband and father, a man of kindly temper, industrious habits, and moral disposition.
-- The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of his thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.
-- He had learnt his craft at the school of Alexander Pope, and he wrote moral stories in rhymed couplets.
-- Mr. Crabbe continued to write moral stories in rhymed couplets.
-- Mr. Crabbe was as dead as mutton, but Mr. Crabbe continued to write moral stories in rhymed couplets.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, the great ornaments of the walls were certain moral sentences fairly copied in good round text, and well-worked sums in simple addition and multiplication, evidently achieved by the same hand, which were plentifully pasted all round the room: for the double purpose, as it seemed, of bearing testimony to the excellence of the school, and kindling a worthy emulation in the bosoms of the scholars.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter XII OF THE LAMPS OF THE MANSIONS--THE AMBASSADOR PLEA Mrs. Hurstwood was not aware of any of her husband's moral defections, though she might readily have suspected his tendencies, which she well understood.
-- The whole of this conversation was such a shock that, coming as it did after all the other worry of the past week, it sufficed to induce a deep gloom and moral revulsion in Hurstwood.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Picks is the thing, moral or no moral; and as for me, I don't care shucks for the morality of it, nohow.
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