edge是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 边, 棱; 刀口, 刃v. 侧身移动, 挤进,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, was what the know-ing ones call 'nuts' to Scrooge.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Standing, as it were, apart with her on the edge of his grave, not all the staring cu-riosity that looked on, could, for the moment, nerve him to remain quite still.
-- He had never heard a sound so sweet and dear as the sound of her compassionate voice; he had never seen a face so ten-derly beautiful, as hers when it was confronted with his own on the edge of the grave that had been dug for him.
-- On one of them, which was a 458 A tale of two citiesfringed scarf for a dress of ceremony, I saw the armorial bearings of a Noble, and the letter E. 'I saw this, within the first minute of my contemplation of the patient; for, in her restless strivings she had turned over on her face on the edge of the bed, had drawn the end of the scarf into her mouth, and was in danger of suffo-cation.
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:
-- A few snow-flakes were falling, and one, the largest of all, remained lying on the edge of a flower-pot.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And noticing a gleam of light peeping in beside one of the serge curtains, he cheerfully dropped his feet over the edge of the sofa, and felt about with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold-colored morocco.
-- He went up to the top, turned back again and started mowing, and they all proceeded to form in line behind him, going downhill through the hollow and uphill right up to the edge of the forest.
-- He shook hands with the peasant and sat down on the edge of a chair, without taking off his coat and hat.
-- He tried to clutch at the edge of the table, dropped the revolver, staggered, and sat down on the ground, looking about him in astonishment.
-- That day, more intensely than ever, Seryozha felt a rush of love for her, and now, waiting for his father, he forgot everything, and cut all round the edge of the table with his penknife, staring straight before him with sparkling eyes and dreaming of her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The time seemed long; the guide ever and anon left them to take an observation on the edge of the wood, but the guards watched steadily by the glare of the torches, and a dim light crept through the windows of the pagoda.
-- At this moment, also, a long black funnel, crowned with wreaths of smoke, appeared on the edge of the waters.
-- On the 13th they passed the edge of the Banks of Newfoundland, a dangerous locality; during the winter, especially, there are frequent fogs and heavy gales of wind.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The frigid edge of the stone sill bit his hands, but he vaulted, thrust up his knee, crawled hastily through the window.
-- "Let's edge in and find out," said Clif, and they clung to the fast increasing knot about Dean Silva and the mystery, who was introduced as Dr. Benoni Carr, the pharmacologist.
-- He met her on the edge of Wheatsylvania and they had a moment's talk, a resolute kiss.
-- III He found for Leora a room on the frayed northern edge of Zenith, miles nearer Mohalis and the University than her hospital had been; a square white and blue room, with blotchy but shoulder- wise chairs.
-- On their walks, at dinner, in the dissolute and deliciously wasteful quarter-hour when they sat on the edge of the bed with comforters wrapped about them and smoked an inexcusable cigarette before breakfast, he explained his work to her, and when her own studying was done, she tried to read whichever of his books was not in use.
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:
-- At the edge of the table stood a smoldering tallow-candle in an iron candlestick.
-- And yet on the further side of the boulevard, about fifteen paces away, a gentleman was standing on the edge of the pavement.
-- The little town stood on a level flat as bare as the hand, not even a willow near it; only in the far distance, a copse lay, a dark blur on the very edge of the horizon.
-- The axe fell with the sharp edge just on the skull and split at one 120 Crime and Punishmentblow all the top of the head.
-- But there seemed to be nothing, no trace, except in one place, where some thick drops of congealed blood were clinging to the frayed edge of his trousers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It sets my teeth on edge to think of it.
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