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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was evident from his physiognomy that he was a lively, intelligent man; he had not the crabbed expression of those grave individuals who never laugh on principle, and cover their emptiness with a mask of seriousness.
-- There we may perhaps find some hut to cover us.
-- "It comes from a Greek word, meaning I cover well.
-- If they could do this without observation, under cover of night, they might possibly reach the deep valleys of the Range and put the Maories off the scent.
-- To-night we will try to reach the eastern valleys by crossing the cordon of natives under cover of the darkness."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have no doubt that my friend's explanation will cover the facts.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'If you know it so well,' said the prince a little timidly, 'why do you choose all this worry for the sake of the seventy-five thousand, which, you confess, does not cover it?'
-- 'I have heard that Lebedeff explains it as the railroads that cover Europe like a net.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Alexandrus quailed as he saw Menelaus come forward, and shrank in fear of his life under cover of his men.
-- BOOK V hen Pallas Minerva put valour into the heart of Di-Tomed, son of Tydeus, that he might excel all the other Argives, and cover himself with glory.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Evil: I have no clothes to cover me.
-- As for my lodging, I kept to the tent; except that sometimes, in the wet season of the year, it rained so hard that I could not keep myself dry, which caused me afterwards to cover all my place within my pale with long poles, in the form of rafters, leaning against the rock, and load them with flags and large leaves of trees, like a thatch.
-- During this confinement in my cover by the rain, I worked daily two or three hours at enlarging my cave, and by degrees worked it on towards one side, till I came to the outside of the hill, and made a door or way out, which came beyond my fence or wall; and so I came in and out this way.
-- This made me resolve to cut some more stakes, and make me a hedge like this, in a semi-circle round my wall (I mean that of my first dwelling), which I did; and placing the trees or stakes in a double row, at about eight yards distance from my first fence, they grew presently, and were at first a fine cover to my habitation, and afterwards served for a defence also, as I shall observe in its order.
-- When the firewood was burned pretty much into embers or live coals, I drew them forward upon this hearth, so as to cover it all over, and there I let them lie till the hearth was very hot.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Ah, such little feet," said the leather of the soft new shoes; "how effectively I cover them.
-- They threatened to cover and obscure his life with chilly greyness.
-- He schemed to make what she earned cover all expenses, but seemed not to trouble over adding anything himself.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with the quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off.
-- This table had a cover made out of beautiful oilcloth, with a red and blue spread-eagle painted on it, and a painted bor-der all around.
-- The woods warn't thick, so I looked over my shoulder to dodge the bullet, and twice I seen Har-ney cover Buck with his gun; and then he rode away the way he come to get his hat, I reckon, but I couldn't see.
-- It's a word that's made up out'n the Greek ORGO, outside, open, abroad; and the Hebrew JEESUM, to plant, cover up; hence inTER.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Poor Pinocchio ran to the fireplace where the pot was boiling and stretched out his hand to take the cover off, but to his amazement the pot was only painted!Think how he felt!His long nose became at least two inches longer.
-- "A poor father and a poorer son, without food and with no roof to cover them," answered the Marionette.
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