cover是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 覆盖, 包括, 涉及n. 盖子, 套子; (书的) 封面,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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Else we bust apart, and cover up the spiteful things we feel against one another by saying false sugaries.
-- But he held her close and tried to cover her poor naked legs with his legs, to keep them warm.
-- He must cover her now for ever.
-- But he drew away at last, and kissed her and covered her over, and began to cover himself She lay looking up to the boughs of the tree, unable as yet to move.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Cover either two of those channels of expression, and the third would have said so still.
-- There was the interminable Sunday of his nonage; when his mother, stern of face and unrelenting of heart, would sit all day behind a Bible bound, like her own construction of it, in the hardest, barest, and straitest boards, with one dinted ornament on the cover like the drag of a chain, and a wrathful sprinkling of red upon the edges of the leaves as if it, of all books!were a fortification against sweetness of temper, natural affection, and gentle intercourse.
-- Presently the rain began to fall in slanting lines between him and those houses, and people began to collect under cover of the public passage opposite, and to look out hopelessly at the sky as the rain dropped thicker and faster.
-- When she fell asleep in the little armchair by the high fender, the turnkey would cover her with his pocket-handkerchief; and when she sat in it dressing and undressing a doll which soon came to be unlike dolls on the other side of the lock, and to bear a horrible family resemblance to Mrs Bangham he would contemplate her from the top of his stool with exceeding gentleness.
-- 'My dear Mrs Finching,' urged Clennam 'all so long ago and so long concluded, is it worth while seriously to ''I can't Arthur,' returned Flora, 'be denounced as heartless by the whole society of China without setting myself right when I have the opportunity of doing so, and you must be very well aware that there was Paul and Virginia which had to be returned and which was returned without note or comment, not that I mean to say you could have written to me watched as I was but if it had only come back with a red wafer on the cover I should have known that it meant Come to Pekin Nankeen and What's the third place, barefoot.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Before she could speak, Annie had the cover off, and all were exclaiming at the lovely roses, heath, and fern within.
-- You say nothing about your trials, failures, or successes, and think, perhaps, that no one sees them but the Friend whose help you daily ask, if I may trust the well-worn cover of your guidebook.
-- he whispered, under cover of a lively chorus.
-- I didn't forget to cover the holders, and I wind the clock and air the rooms every day.
-- Jo caught a bad cold through neglect to cover the shorn head enough, and was ordered to stay at home till she was better, for Aunt March didn't like to hear people read with colds in their heads.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To be sure they all sleep together in one apartment, but you have your own hammock, and cover yourself with your own blanket, and sleep in your own skin.
-- What bitter blanks in those black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes!What despair in those immovable inscriptions!What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.
-- But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself.
-- And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues every stately or lovely emblazoning the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him.
-- He knew, for example, that however magnetic his ascendency in some respects was over Starbuck, yet that ascendency did not cover the complete spiritual man any more than mere corporeal superiority involves intellectual mastership; for to the purely spiritual, the intellectual but stand in a sort of corporeal relation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Oliver, shut that door at Mister Noah's back, and take them bits that I've put out on the cover of the bread-pan.
-- 'There is something in that boy's face,' said the old gentleman to himself as he walked slowly away, tapping his chin with the cover of the book, in a thoughtful manner; 'something that touches and interests me.
-- I'd walk round and round the place till I dropped, if the snow was on the ground, and I hadn't a shawl to cover me.'
-- Now, these four retorts arose from Mr. Giles's taunt; and Mr. Giles's taunt had arisen from his indignation at having the responsibility of going home again, imposed upon himself under cover of a compliment.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They all paint tables, cover screens, and net purses.
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