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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I found, indeed, some intervals of reflection; and the serious thoughts did, as it were, endea-vour to return again sometimes; but I shook them off, and roused myself from them as it were from a distemper, and applying myself to drinking and company, soon mastered the return of those fits - for so I called them; and I had in five or six days got as complete a victory over conscience as any young fellow that resolved not to be troubled with it could desire.
-- It was with the utmost hazard the boat came near us; but it was impossible for us to get on board, or for the boat to lie near the ship's side, till at last the men rowing very heartily, and venturing their lives to save ours, our men cast them a rope over the stern with a buoy to it, and then veered it out a great length, which they, after much labour and haz-ard, took hold of, and we hauled them close under our stern, and got all into their boat.
-- She sailed with what we call a shoulder-of-mutton sail; and the boom jibed over the top of the cabin, which lay very snug and low, and had in it room for him to lie, with a slave or two, and a table to eat on, with some small lockers to put in some bottles of such liquor as he thought fit to drink; and his bread, rice, and coffee.
-- He rose immediately, for he swam like a cork, and called to me, begged to be taken in, told me he would go all over the world with me.
-- The boy smiled in my face, and spoke so innocently that I could not distrust him, and swore to be faithful to me, and go all over the world with me.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- An annuity is a very serious business; it comes over and over every year, and there is no getting rid of it.
-- But Mrs. Dashwood began shortly to give over every hope of the kind, and to be convinced, from the general drift of his discourse, that his assistance extended no farther than their maintenance for six months at Norland.
-- She was full of jokes and laughter, and before dinner was over had said many witty things on the subject of lovers and husbands; hoped they had not left their hearts behind them in Sussex, and pretended to see them blush whether they did or not.
-- She was remarkably quick in the discovery of attachments, and had enjoyed the advantage of raising the blushes and the vanity of many a young lady by insinuations of her power over such a young man; and this kind of discernment enabled her soon after her arrival at Barton decisively to pronounce that Colonel Brandon was very much in love with Marianne Dashwood.
-- Margaret agreed, and they pursued their way against the wind, resisting it with laughing delight for about twenty minutes longer, when suddenly the clouds united over their heads, and a driving rain set full in their face. Chagrined and surprised, they were obliged, though unwillingly, to turn back, for no shelter was nearer than their own house.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If he visited a department store it was to lounge familiarly over the counter and ask some leading questions.
-- She troubled herself over what else to put in the letter.
-- She concluded by thanking him for his kindness in a crude way, then puzzled over the formality of signing her name, and finally decided upon the severe, winding up with a "Very truly," which she subsequently changed to "Sincerely."
-- It was a city of over 500,000, with the ambition, the daring, the activity of a metropolis of a million.
-- Its streets and houses were already scattered over an area of seventy-five square miles.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.
-- When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them, that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself.
-- The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about some- body that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog cry- ing about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn't make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me.
-- You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep off bad luck when you'd killed a spider.
-- When we was passing by the kitchen I fell over a root and made a noise.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Over the fire, there was painted a pot full of something which kept boiling happily away and sending up clouds of what looked like real steam.
-- In his wild flight, he leaped over brambles and bushes, and across brooks and ponds, as if he were a goat or a hare chased by hounds.
-- Certain that he was dreaming, he turned the egg over and over in his hands, fondled it, kissed it, and talked to it: "And now, how shall I cook you?
-- He placed a little pan over a foot warmer full of hot coals.
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