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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Why, she wanted a pair of blue boots for Sallie's party, so she just painted her soiled white ones the loveliest shade of sky blue you ever saw, and they looked exactly like satin,' added Jo, with an air of pride in her sister's accomplishments that exasperated Amy till she felt that it would be a relief to throw her card-case at her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.
-- Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back, and exactly the colour of a three days' old Congo baby.
-- But savages are strange beings; at times you do not know exactly how to take them.
-- For a moment I stood a little puzzled by this curious request, not knowing exactly how to take it, whether humorously or in earnest.
-- I don't know exactly what's the matter with him; but he keeps close inside the house; a sort of sick, and yet he don't look so.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Having witnessed the little dispute between Mr. Gamfield and the donkey, he smiled joyously when that person came up to read the bill, for he saw at once that Mr. Gamfield was exactly the sort of master Oliver Twist wanted.
-- They were not exactly pretty, perhaps; but they had a great deal of colour in their faces, and looked quite stout and hearty.
-- They no sooner heard the cry, and saw Oliver running, than, guessing exactly how the matter stood, they issued forth with great promptitude; and, shouting 'Stop thief!'
-- If he were really not in the habit of drinking rather more than was exactly good for him, he might have brought action against his countenance for libel, and have recovered heavy damages.
-- When he got into Clerkenwell, he accidently turned down a by-street which was not exactly in his way; but not discovering his mistake until he had got half-way down it, and knowing it must lead in the right direction, he did not think it worth while to turn back; and so marched on, as quickly as he could, with the books under his arm.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'That is exactly the question which I expected you to ask.
-- 'That is exactly what I should have supposed of you,' said Elizabeth.
-- The perpetual commendations of the lady, ei- ther on his handwriting, or on the evenness of his lines, or on the length of his letter, with the perfect unconcern with which her praises were received, formed a curious dialogue, and was exactly in union with her opinion of each.
-- 'Upon my word, I cannot exactly explain the matter; Darcy must speak for himself.'
-- But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters re-maining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane's week, could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But as I had no instruments to take an observation to know what latitude we were in, and not exactly knowing, or at least remember-ing, what latitude they were in, I knew not where to look for them, or when to stand off to sea towards them; otherwise I might now easily have found some of these islands.
-- The excessive hardness of the wood, and my having no other way, made me a long while upon this ma-chine, for I worked it effectually by little and little into the form of a shovel or spade; the handle exactly shaped like ours in England, only that the board part having no iron shod upon it at bottom, it would not last me so long; how-ever, it served well enough for the uses which I had occasion to put it to; but never was a shovel, I believe, made after that fashion, or so long in making.
-- But by this experiment I was made master of my business, and knew exactly when the proper season was to sow, and that I might expect two seed-times and two harvests every year.
-- I went to it again to see if there were any more, and to observe if it might not be my fancy; but there was no room for that, for there was exactly the print of a foot - toes, heel, and every part of a foot.
-- As we went by the place where he had buried the two men, he pointed exactly to the place, and showed me the marks that he had made to find them again, making signs to me that we should dig them up again and eat them.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A continuance in a place where everything reminded her of former delight, was exactly what suited her mind.
-- He was exactly formed to engage Marianne's heart, for with all this, he joined not only a captivating person, but a natural ardour of mind which was now roused and increased by the example of her own, and which recommended him to her affection beyond every thing else.
-- "That is exactly what I think of him," cried Marianne.
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