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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Picture to yourself those first navigators venturing in ships made of planks sewn with the cords of the palmtree, saturated with the grease of the seadog, and covered with powdered resin!They had not even instruments wherewith to take their bearings, and they went by guess amongst currents of which they scarcely knew anything.
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:
-- Birkin could not guess what she was looking for, nor what she was thinking.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.
-- And while I was, half consciously, worrying my brain to guess what Jabez Branderham would make of his subject, I sank back in bed, and fell asleep.
-- And Hareton has been cast out like an unfledged dunnock!The unfortunate lad is the only one in all this parish that does not guess how he has been cheated.
-- Heathcliff was dangerously sick; and while he lay at the worst he would have me constantly by his pillow: I suppose he felt I did a good deal for him, and he hadn't wit to guess that I was compelled to do it.
-- I could not guess the use that either would be of, then.
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:
-- Alice said 'Nobody can guess that.'
-- 'Can you guess why I did that?'
-- On this occasion the kitten only purred: and it was impossible to guess whether it meant 'yes' or 'no.'
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 guess Hands and O'Brien turned soft.
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