movement是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 运动, 活动; 移动, 迁移,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:
-- The sea was splendid, and every movement of the shark was distinctly visible.
-- The Patagonian nodded in reply, a movement of the head which has an affirmative significance among all nations.
-- There was no help for it; they could do nothing to arrest the gyratory movement of the raft; it turned round with dizzying rapidity, and drifted out of its course.
-- For about half an hour the funeral procession remained out of sight, in the hollow valley, and then came in sight again winding up the mountain side; the distance gave a fantastic effect to the undulating movement of this long serpentine column.
-- It was not a movement like earthquake, but that peculiar tremor that affects the metal of a boiler under high pressure.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then sud-denly he ran towards the girl with the infant, a movement so unexpected by her that she staggered and fell back, but next moment he was threatening the other child, who was standing, still laughing, in the doorway.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He jerked his great cloak more heavily upon him by an impatient movement of one shoulder, and growled, 'To the devil with this Brigand of a Sun that never shines in here!'
-- Mr Flintwinch made a movement with the snuffers, as if he would have enforced silence on his companion by putting them down his throat; the companion, coming to himself, said, rubbing his eyes, 'I forgot where I was.'
-- No movement or voice was heard when he opened the door; no wicked head tied up in a ragged handkerchief looked out of the upper window.
-- And, with a rigid movement of her stony reticule (an appendage of great size and of a fossil appearance), indicated that Clennam was the unfortunate person at whom the challenge was hurled.
-- After that knock they heard a movement below, and somebody shuffling up towards the door.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was past two, when Jo, who stood at the window think-ing how dreary the world looked in its winding sheet of snow, heard a movement by the bed, and turning quickly, saw Meg kneeling before their mother's easy chair with her face hidden.
-- A restless movement from Laurie suggested that his chair was not easy, or that he did not like the plan, and made the old man add hastily, 'I don't mean to be a marplot or a bur-den.
-- A flank movement produced an unconditional surrender, however, for Laurie knew where to have him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What under the heavens he did it for, I cannot tell, but his next movement was to crush himself boots in hand, and hat on under the bed; when, from sundry violent gaspings and strainings, I inferred he was hard at work booting himself; though by no law of propriety that I ever heard of, is any man required to be private when putting on his boots.
-- "There is some sneaking Temperance Society movement about this business," he suddenly added, now approaching Starbuck, who had just come from forward.
-- It may be but an idle whim, but it has always seemed to me, that the extraordinary vacillations of movement displayed by some whales when beset by three or four boats; the timidity and liability to queer frights, so common to such whales; I think that all this indirectly proceeds from the helpless perplexity of volition, in which their divided and diametrically opposite powers of vision must involve them.
-- Though such a movement on the part of the whale struck under such circumstances, is in no wise unprecedented; and indeed is almost always more or less anticipated; yet does it present one of the more perilous vicissitudes of the fishery.
-- At that preluding moment, ere the boat was yet snapped, Ahab, the first to perceive the whale's intent, by the crafty upraising of his head, a movement that loosed his hold for the time; at that moment his hand had made one final effort to push the boat out of the bite.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At this task she laboured incessantly for some time, finding relief from her own nervous fears and imaginings in the humdrum, mechanical movement of the machine.
-- Her hands began to ache at the wrists and then in the fingers, and towards the last she seemed one mass of dull, complaining muscles, fixed in an eternal position and performing a single mechanical movement which became more and more distasteful, until as last it was absolutely nauseating.
-- Carrie watched his every movement with pleasure.
-- She was surprised at the briefness of the entire part, not knowing that she must be on the stage while others were talking, and not only be there, but also keep herself in harmony with the dramatic movement of the scenes.
-- he murmured, with a movement of his head to one side.
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