guess是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 猜测, 推测; 以为; 猜想,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There might have been twenty people there, young and old, but they all played, and so did Scrooge, for, wholly for-getting the interest he had in what was going on, that his voice made no sound in their ears, he sometimes came out with his guess quite loud, and very often guessed quite right, too; for the sharpest needle, best Whitechapel, warranted not to cut in the eye, was not sharper than Scrooge; blunt as he took it in his head to be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As I was say-ing ' Her look so discomposed him that he stopped, wan-dered, and began anew: 'As I was saying; if Monsieur Manette had not died; if he had suddenly and silently disappeared; if he had been spirited away; if it had not been difficult to guess to what 32 A tale of two citiesdreadful place, though no art could trace him; if he had an enemy in some compatriot who could exercise a privilege that I in my own time have known the boldest people afraid to speak of in a whisper, across the water there; for instance, the privilege of filling up blank forms for the consignment of any one to the oblivion of a prison for any length of time; if his wife had implored the king, the queen, the court, the clergy, for any tidings of him, and all quite in vain; then the history of your father would have been the history of this unfortunate gentleman, the Doctor of Beauvais.'
-- My daughter Lucie is, in this one respect, such a mystery to me; I can make no guess at the state of her heart.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You can see by that whether I guess right or wrong," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, gazing at Levin with a subtle smile.
-- "We're meaning to make an expedition to the mountains tomorrow," answered Kitty, "Well, you can go," answered the princess, gazing at her daughter's embarrassed face and trying to guess the cause of her embarrassment.
-- If he'd killed me, if he'd killed him, I could have borne anything, I could have forgiven anything; but, no, he.... How was it I didn't guess what he would do?
-- She could not guess that that expression arose from the first idea that presented itself to Vronsky--that a duel was now inevitable.
-- "How did they guess that it is help, just help that one wants?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "And I guess you'll stay there too," added the American insolently.
-- It would be difficult to guess the detective's thoughts.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If we could find your Uncle Ed, I guess he'd take us in."
-- "Yes, of course, some day I guess they'll have a car every twenty minutes," he said weightily.
-- "You're the nicest thing the Lord ever made, when you stick to things you know about, but when you spring your ideas on politics and chemotherapy--Darn it, quit bullying me!I guess you're right about slang.
-- Of course I do think it's too sort of rococo, but still, it is impressive, and-- Did I guess it, darling?"
-- She's learned so much about the care of the sick, and she puts me onto a lot of good stunts, and she seems like a nice girl-- Miss Tozer, her name is--I think her first name is Lee or something like that--and she's so--her father is one of the big men in North Dakota--awfully rich--big banker--I guess she just took up nursing to do her share in the world's work."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The iron strip was added to give weight, so that the woman might not guess the first minute that the 'thing' was made of wood.
-- He knew, he knew perfectly well that at that moment they were at the flat, that they were greatly astonished at finding it unlocked, as the door had just been fastened, that by now they were looking at the bodies, that before another minute had passed they would guess and completely realise that the murderer had just been there, and had succeeded in hiding somewhere, slipping by them and escaping.
-- They would guess most likely that he had been in the empty flat, while they were going upstairs.
-- Yet the head clerk great-ly interested him, he kept hoping to see through him and guess something from his face.
-- The fact was he had begun instinctively to guess that Lebeziatnikov was not merely a commonplace simple-ton, but, perhaps, a liar, too, and that he had no connections of any consequence even in his own circle, but had simply picked things up third-hand; and that very likely he did not even know much about his own work of propaganda, for he was in too great a muddle.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Hear, hear, hear!Now I'll quench thecuriosity of this little Fatima, my dear Daisy, by leaving hernothing to guess at.
-- I expressed as much of my astonishment as was then capable ofexpression, and asked if he could guess what it was that she hadtaken so much amiss, so suddenly.
-- Maybe you can guess that if you'd had such a friend, you'd havegot into a way of being fond of him in course of time, and that myniece was kiender daughterlike to me.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer for, depend upon it a lucky guess is never merely luck.
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