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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Guess it, Aglaya!But she's pretty, prince, isn't she?'
-- So saying she gazed into his eyes, longing to see whether she could make any guess as to the explanation of his mo-tive in coming to her house.
-- Can you guess anything?'
-- 'Oh!it's not a great matter to guess who told her.
-- 'I was only going to say that you not that you could not be like Gleboff but that you would have been more like @ 'I guess what you mean I should be an Osterman, not a Gleboff eh?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'My friends,' said he, 'princes and counsellors of the Argives, shall I guess right or wrong? but I must say what I think: there is a sound in my ears as of the tramp of horses.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I guess it's about time we saw him."
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mow-gli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books.
-- How was I to guess he would play with such dirt.
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:
-- He seemed to express himself with difficulty, as though words were not the medium with which his mind worked; and you had to guess the intentions of his soul by hackneyed phrases, slang, and vague, unfinished gestures.
-- Stroeve tried to talk to me about the picture, but he was incoherent, and I had to guess at what he meant.
-- "Well, I guess I was on the beach."
-- "But I guess Strickland was an ugly customer when he was roused," said Captain Nichols, reflectively.
-- "I guess you'd better get out of Marseilles before Tough Bill comes out of hospital," he said to Strickland, when they had got back to the Chink's Head and were cleaning themselves.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pencroft and Herbert examined for some time the country on which they had been cast; but it was difficult to guess after so hasty an inspection what the future had in store for them.
-- The odor, easily recognized, was enough for the engineer to guess what the smoke was which at first, not without cause, had startled him.
-- The settlers listened and they thought they heard a sort of chuckling laugh, of which they could not guess the origin.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, you know the lad, and can guess the rest.
-- Do you guess the reason?'
-- Now,' said Brass, picking up his hat again and replacing the shade over his eye, and actually crouching down, in the excess of his servility, 'what does all this lead to? what should you say it led me to, gentlemen? could you guess at all near the mark?'
-- Can you guess its purpose?'
-- 'I guess his meaning,' said the sexton.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was not now such a very difficult problem to guess what the coming Dark Nights might mean.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And the Queen seemed to guess her thoughts, for she cried, 'Faster!Don't try to talk!'
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