neck是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 颈脖,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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When they came to a hill stream, Bagheera gained, because he bounded across while Kaa swam, his head and two feet of his neck clearing the water, but on level ground Kaa made up the distance.
-- Baloo and Bagheera stood still as stone, growling in their throats, their neck hair bristling, and Mowgli watched and wondered.
-- 'Mowgli,' said Bagheera angrily, 'his nose was sore on thy account, as my ears and sides and paws, and Baloo's neck and shoulders are bitten on thy account.
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:
-- Heyward instantly knew it for a trinket that Alice was fond of wearing, and which he recollected, with the tena-cious memory of a lover, to have seen, on the fatal morning of the massacre, dangling from the fair neck of his mistress.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
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:
-- They turned her out into the street neck and crop.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It appeared inexplicable, above all, in the midst of this black night and in such a tempest!But what was still more inexplicable was, that Top was neither tired, nor exhausted, nor even soiled with mud or sand!Herbert had drawn him towards him, and was patting his head, the dog rubbing his neck against the lad's hands.
-- At its neck was a wound, which appeared to have been produced by a sharp blade.
-- It served as a neck to the new creek, of which the curious thing was that its waters, instead of joining the sea by a gentle slope, fell from a height of more than forty feet, which explained why the rising tide was not felt up the stream.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'There's one good thing springs out of all this,' said Richard Swiviller to himself when he had reached home and was hanging over the candle with the extinguisher in his hand, 'which is, that I now go heart and soul, neck and heels, with Fred in all his scheme about little Nelly, and right glad he'll be to find me so strong upon it.
-- 'Come!You let the cage alone, and let me wring its neck will you?
-- 'Fight for it, you dogs, or I'll wring its neck myself!'
-- replied Kit, 'and here he is Miss Nelly's bird, mother, that they was agoin' to wring the neck of!I stopped that though ha ha ha!They wouldn't wring his neck and me by, no, no.
-- The old man was stretched beside her, and with her hand upon his neck she lay and dreamed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Besides, she could not withstand the temptation of having all the dresses her heart desired--dresses made of velvet, gauze and silk--ball dresses, with open neck and short sleeves.
-- After washing his hands with perfumed soap, carefully brushing his trimmed nails and washing his face and stout neck in a marble basin, he walked into a third room, where a shower-bath was ready.
-- "You had scarcely left Prince Korchagin's house yesterday when I called for you," said the driver, half-turning his stout, sun-burned neck in the white collar of his shirt, "and the footman said that you had just gone."
-- The neck almost disappeared in the swelling of the face and breast, et cetera, et cetera.
-- A dark man with a shaven, blue neck and long mustache, tangling in his fetters, sprang toward her and embraced her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Their hair, which was uniformly curly, came to a sharp end at the neck and cheek; there was not the faintest suggestion of it on the face, and their ears were singularly minute.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So they walked on together though the wood, Alice with her arms clasped lovingly round the soft neck of the Fawn, till they came out into another open field, and here the Fawn gave a sudden bound into the air, and shook itself free from Alice's arms.
-- she said to herself, as she arranged a bolster round the neck of Tweedledee, 'to keep his head from being cut off,' as he said.
-- 'If I only knew,' she thought to herself, 'which was neck and which was waist!'
-- the Knight asked in a tone of great interest, clasping his arms round the horse's neck as he spoke, just in time to save himself from tumbling off again.
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