boy是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 男孩子, 儿子; 男性服务员,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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then she said, with a curious stray calm:"Then we'll leave a little boy behind, if he's sulky."
-- They looked at the shy deer, and Hermione talked to the stag, as if he too were a boy she wanted to wheedle and fondle.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The former was a boy of fourteen, but when he drew out what had been a fiddle, crushed to morsels in the great coat, he blubbered aloud; and Cathy, when she learned the master had lost her whip in attendin g on the stranger, showed her humour by grinning and spitting at the stupid little thing; earning for her pains a sound blow from her father, to teach her cleaner manners.
-- His peevish reproofs wakened in her a naughty delight to provoke him: she was never so happy as when we were all scolding her at once, and she defying us with her bold, saucy look, and her ready words; turning Joseph's religious curses into ridicule, baiting me, and doing just what her father hated most showing how her pretended insolence, which he thought real, had more power over Heathcliff than his kindness: how the boy would do HER bidding in anything, and HIS only when it suited his own inclination.
-- Oh, my dear Mary, look here!Don't be afraid, it is but a boy yet the villain scowls so plainly in his face; would it not be a kindness to the country to hang him at once, before he shows his nature in acts as well as features?"
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