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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The movement is, properly speaking, a derivative from Nihilism though they are only known indirectly, and by hearsay, for they never advertise their do-ings in the papers.
-- These words caused a sensation among the listeners, and there was a general movement of relief.
-- A movement of impa-tience was noticed in his audience as he resumed: 'I merely wish to state, for the information of all concerned, that the reason for Mr. Pavlicheff's interest in your mother, Mr. Bur-dovsky, was simply that she was the sister of a serf-girl with whom he was deeply in love in his youth, and whom most certainly he would have married but for her sudden death.
-- She made a sud-den movement to go, and then turned quickly back.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was no play nor graceful movement of his sceptre; he kept it straight and stiff like a man unpractised in oratory one might have taken him for a mere churl or simpleton; but when he raised his voice, and the words came driving from his deep chest like winter snow before the wind, then there was none to touch him, and no man thought further of what he looked like.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then he distinctly heard a movement across the room, near the wash-hand stand.
-- I made a step, the boy started back with an exclamation, and with a rapid movement I swung myself over into the portico of the next house.
-- I scrambled to my feet, looking about me for some way of escape, and even as I did so the sound of my movement made them aware of me.
-- "I came forward to follow him, and at the noise of my movement he stopped dead.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Montgomery's movement to follow me released my at-tention, and I turned and looked about me at the flush deck of the little schooner.
-- With a sudden movement he shook his arm free, and af-ter two ineffectual attempts stuck his freckled fists into his side pockets.
-- Except for an occasional sound in the yellow-lit forecastle and a movement of the animals now and then, the night was very still.
-- I heard a movement further off among the shadows, as if the Thing was in retreat.
-- Every now and then a suspicious movement would startle me, but my confidence grew rapidly.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nag was thinking to himself, and watching the least lit-tle movement in the grass behind Rikki-tikki.
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:
-- A gen-eral movement among the domestics, and a low sound of gentle voices, announced the approach of those whose pres-ence alone was wanted to enable the cavalcade to move.
-- Though this sudden and startling movement of the Indian produced no sound from the other, in the surprise her veil also was allowed to open its folds, and betrayed an indescribable look of pity, admiration, and horror, as her dark eye followed the easy motions of the sav-age.
-- Perhaps the rapidity of the changes from one of these paces to the other created an optical illusion, which might thus magnify the powers of the beast; for it is certain that Hey-ward, who possessed a true eye for the merits of a horse, was unable, with his utmost ingenuity, to decide by what sort of movement his pursuer worked his sinuous way on his foot-steps with such persevering hardihood.
-- The white man loosened his knife in his leathern sheath, and made an involuntary movement of the hand toward his rifle, at this sudden interruption; but the Indian sat com-posed, and without turning his head at the unexpected sounds.
-- A general movement among their conductors, however, soon recalled them from a contem-plation of the wild charms that night had assisted to lend the place to a painful sense of their real peril.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The greater part of the time he scraped on two or three strings, accompany-ing every movement of the bow with a motion of the head; bowing almost to the ground, and stamping with his foot whenever a fresh couple were to start.
-- On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck on per-ceiving that he was headless!but his horror was still more increased on observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pom-mel of his saddle!His terror rose to desperation; he rained a shower of kicks and blows upon Gunpowder, hoping by a sudden movement to give his companion the slip; but the spectre started full jump with him.
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:
-- Dirk's hands moved strangely, as though they had nothing to do with his body, with a movement of their own.
-- He flung it back against the wall angrily what did he mean by leaving it there? but his movement caused it to fall, face downwards, on the ground.
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