over是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 在上方; 遍及地prep. 在的上方a. 结束的,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then the son sat down on the fox's tail, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.
-- Then the fox stretched out his tail, and so away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled again.
-- Hans took out his pocket-handkerchief, put the piece of silver into it, threw it over his shoulder, and jogged off on his road homewards.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When I formerly hinted to you something of this in a letter, you were pleased to answer that you were afraid of giving offence; that people in power were very watchful over the press, and apt not only to interpret, but to pun-ish every thing which looked like an innuendo (as I think you call it).
-- In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advanc-ing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.
-- When the people observed I was quiet, they discharged no more ar-rows; but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased; and about four yards from me, over against my right ear, I heard a knocking for above an hour, like that of people at work; when turning my head that way, as well as the pegs and strings would permit me, I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants, with two or three ladders to mount it: from whence one of them, who seemed to be a person of quality, made me a long speech, whereof I understood not one syllable.
-- I answered in few words, but to no purpose, and made a sign with my hand that was loose, putting it to the other (but over his excellen-cy's head for fear of hurting him or his train) and then to my own head and body, to signify that I desired my liberty.
-- Over against this temple, on the other side of the great highway, at twenty feet distance, there was a tur-ret at least five feet high.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots?'
-- Six windows on this side of the door, six on that side; a total of twelve in this wing, a total of twelve in the other wing; four-and-twenty carried over to the back wings.
-- He was also to exhibit 'his astounding feat of throwing seventy-five hundred-weight in rapid succession backhanded over his head, thus forming a fountain of solid iron in mid-air, a feat never before attempted in this or any other country, and which having elicited such rapturous plaudits from enthusiastic throngs it cannot be withdrawn.'
-- Adam Smith and Malthus, two younger Gradgrinds, were out at lecture in custody; and little Jane, after manufacturing a good deal of moist pipe-clay on her face with slate-pencil and tears, had fallen asleep over vulgar fractions.
-- I'll answer for it's being all over with father.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not so my excellent uncle, Professor Hardwigg; he studied, he consumed the midnight oil, he pored over heavy tomes, and digested huge quartos and folios in order to keep the knowledge acquired to himself.
-- When I say a nice house, I mean a handsome house--old, tottering, and not exactly comfortable to English notions: a house a little off the perpendicular and inclined to fall into the neighboring canal; exactly the house for a wandering artist to depict; all the more that you could scarcely see it for ivy and a magnificent old tree which grew over the door.
-- It was about five inches by three and was scrawled over in the mos t extraordinary fashion.
-- For the sake of poring over this musty old piece of parchment, my uncle forbore to share our meal.
-- I mildly handed it over to him.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.
-- The war had brought the roof down over her head.
-- Then he went back to Flanders: to be shipped over to Eng-land again six months later, more or less in bits.
-- They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
-- Rather she could use this sex thing to have power over him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Everything that lived or grew, was oppressed by the glare; except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls, and the cicala, chirping his dry hot chirp, like a rattle.
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