exactly是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 确切地; 恰恰正是,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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She had noticed the inflection in her husband's voice, and knew that it would not be safe to retire to the boudoir; like all women who are compelled to study their husbands' characters in order to have their own way, and whose business it is to know exactly how far they can go without endangering a good understanding, she was very careful to avoid petty collisions in domestic life.
-- "A marquis here in Paris, if he is not the veriest sham, ought to have a hundred thousand livres a year at least; and a lodger in the Maison Vauquer is not exactly Fortune's favorite."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over the part of the lake which lies between the prom-ontory of Belrive and the village of Copet.
-- From the side where I now stood Montanvert was exactly opposite, at the distance of a league; and above it rose Mont Blanc, in awful majesty.
-- Here I paused, not exactly knowing what path to pursue, when I heard the sound of voices, that induced me to conceal myself under the shade of a cypress.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards ofbillowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recentlybrought her from Atlanta.
-- In a neighborhood where everyone said exactly what he thought as soon as he thought it, Ashley's quality ofreserve was exasperating.
-- Mammy had her own method of letting her owners know exactly where she stood on all matters.
-- Atlanta had always interested her more than any other town because when she was a child Gerald had told her thatshe and Atlanta were exactly the same age.
-- She stifled her impulse totell him exactly what she thought of him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Every Christmas Day he presented himself, as a profound novelty, with exactly the same words, and carrying the two bottles like dumb-bells.
-- Not exactly relishing this, I said, "Never mind me, Joe."
-- I noticed that Miss Havisham put down the jewel exactly on the spot from which she had taken it up.
-- And I know what that is to do, though I can't say I've exactly done it."
-- I say we went over, but I was pushed over by Pumblechook, exactly as if I had that moment picked a pocket or fired a rick; indeed, it was the general impression in Court that I had been taken red-handed; for, as Pumblechook shoved me before him through the crowd, I heard some people say, "What's he done?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then she placed the can before her, and turned the tap, and while the beer was running she would not let her eyes be idle, but looked up at the wall, and after much peering here and there, saw a pick-axe exactly above her, which the ma- sons had accidentally left there.
-- Now they were all beautiful, and all exactly alike: but he was told that the eldest had eaten a piece of sugar, the next some sweet syrup, and the youngest a spoonful of honey; so he was to guess which it was that had eaten the honey.
-- She thought for a moment and said: 'Dear father, I wish for eleven girls exactly like myself in face, figure, and size.'
-- The father said: 'If it be pos-298 Grimms' Fairy Talessible, your desire shall be fulfilled,' and he caused a search to be made in his whole kingdom, until eleven young maid-ens were found who exactly resembled his daughter in face, figure, and size.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It now began to be known and talked of in the neigh-bourhood, that my master had found a strange animal in the field, about the bigness of a splacnuck, but exactly shaped in every part like a human creature; which it like-wise imitated in all its actions; seemed to speak in a little language of its own, had already learned several words of theirs, went erect upon two legs, was tame and gentle, would come when it was called, do whatever it was bid, had the finest limbs in the world, and a complexion fairer than a nobleman's daughter of three years old.
-- After much debate, they concluded unanimously, that I was only relplum scalcath, which is interpreted literally lusus naturae; a determination exactly agreeable to the modern philosophy of Europe, whose professors, disdaining the old evasion of occult causes, whereby the followers of Aristo-tle endeavoured in vain to disguise their ignorance, have 125invented this wonderful solution of all difficulties, to the unspeakable advancement of human knowledge.
-- I measured a little finger which had fallen down from one of these statues, and lay unperceived among some rubbish, and found it exactly four feet and an inch in length.
-- The flying or floating island is exactly circular, its- diameter 7837 yards, or about four miles and a half, and consequently contains ten thousand acres.
-- This magnet is sus-tained by a very strong axle of adamant passing through its middle, upon which it plays, and is poised so exactly that the weakest hand can turn it.
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