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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When everything was ready, the landlord took off the cover for the last time, and then indeed there burst forth such a goodly promise of supper, that if he had offered to put it on again or had hinted at postponement, he would certainly have been sacrificed on his own hearth.
-- His disordered imagination represented to him a crowd of persons stealing towards them beneath the cover of the bushes, lurking in every ditch, and peeping from the boughs of every rustling tree.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A man couldn't cover himself with dust by rolling in a paradox, could he?"
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
-- This put me in a great fear, and I crawled under cover of the nearest live-oak and squatted there, hearkening, as silent as a mouse.
-- We had entirely forgotten the long nine; and there, to our horror, were the five rogues busy about her, getting off her jacket, as they called the stout tarpaulin cover under which she sailed.
-- I walked along beside the surf with great enjoyment, till, thinking I was now got far enough to the south, I took the cover of some thick bushes and crept warily up to the ridge of the spit.
-- This was to slip out under cover of the night, cut the Hispaniola adrift, and let her go ashore where she fancied.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Near this piece of furniture, I saw a chest bound with iron, on the cover of which was a copper plate, bearing the cypher of the Nautilus with its device.
-- It is said of some that they cover themselves with seaweed and fucus, and then are taken for islands.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So we cover the earth with foulness; life is a blotch of labour, like insects scurrying in filth, so that your collier can have a pianoforte in his parlour, and you can have a butler and a motor-car in your up-to-date house, and as a nation we can sport the Ritz, or the Empire, Gaby Deslys and the Sunday newspapers.
-- To lie down and roll in the sticky, cool young hyacinths, to lie on one's belly and cover one's back with handfuls of fine wet grass, soft as a breath, soft and more delicate and more beautiful than the touch of any woman; and then to sting one's thigh against the living dark bristles of the fir-boughs; and then to feel the light whip of the hazel on one's shoulders, stinging, and then to clasp the silvery birch-trunk against one's breast, its smoothness, its hardness, its vital knots and ridges this was good, this was all very good, very satisfying.
-- "I'll cover them up."
-- "When people are in grief, they would do better to cover their faces and keep in retirement, as in the old days."
-- And he felt he ought to say something, to cover it.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The mistress visited her often in the interval, and commenced her plan of reform by trying to raise her self respect with fine clothes and flattery, which she took readily; so that, instead of a wild, hatless little savage jumping into the house, and rushing to squeeze us all breathless, there 'lighted from a handsome black pony a very dignified person, with brown ringlets falling from the cover of a feathered beaver, and a long cloth habit, which she was obliged to hold up with both hands that she might sail in.
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