add是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 加; 增加(进) ; 进一步说/写vi. (to) 增添,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the figures had the old obstinate 597propensitythey would not add up.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I love to look at her; and I will add this praise, that I do not think her personally vain.
-- He turned to Mrs. Weston to implore her assistance, 'Would not she give him her support? would not she add her persuasions to his, to induce Miss Woodhouse not to go to Mrs. God-dard's till it were certain that Miss Smith's disorder had no infection?
-- Frank Churchill, of whom, in the eagerness of her conversation with Mrs. Weston, she had been seeing nothing, except that he had found a seat by Miss Fairfax, followed Mr. Cole, to add his very pressing entreaties; and as, in every respect, it suited Emma best to lead, she gave a very proper compliance.
-- My uncle has been too good for me to encroach. I must still add to this long letter.
-- It would be a secret satisfac-tion; but the consciousness of a similarity of prospect would certainly add to the interest with which she should attend to any thing Jane might communicate.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was no necessity for any continuance of speech, and the fact that she did add more seemed to proceed from an unconscious desire to show unconcern by making a remark, which is noticeable in the ingenuous when they are acting by stealth.
-- Twenty pounds having been secured from Bathsheba, he had managed to add to the sum every farthing he could muster on his own account, which had been seven pounds ten.
-- "Well, I could add the name, and put it up at Weatherbury for the sum you mention."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When a man once enters on a course of deception, he is compelled to add lie to lie.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I believe it to be an intuitive dis-cernment, a quick but never-failing power of judgment, a penetration into the causes of things, unequalled for clear-ness and precision; add to this a facility of expression and a 21voice whose varied intonations are soul-subduing music.
-- 'No one did at first; but several circumstances came out, that have almost forced conviction upon us; and her own behaviour has been so confused, as to add to the evidence of facts a weight that, I fear, leaves no hope for doubt.
-- The pines are not tall or luxu-riant, but they are sombre and add an air of severity to the scene.
-- Yet, when I am dead, if he should appear, if the ministers of vengeance should conduct him to you, swear that he shall not live swear that he shall not 258 Frankensteintriumph over my accumulated woes and survive to add to the list of his dark crimes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For, though it includes what I proceed to add, all the merit of what I proceed to add was Joe's.
-- And I grieve to add that peals of laughter greeted Mr. Wopsle on every one of these occasions.
-- He is nobody's enemy--""Don't add but his own," interposed Estella, "for I hate that class of man.
-- We went down on the next day but one, and we found her in the room where I had first beheld her, and it is needless to add that there was no change in Satis House.
-- She turned her face to me for the first time since she had averted it, and, to my amazement, I may even add to my terror, dropped on her knees at my feet; with her folded hands raised to me in the manner in which, when her poor heart was young and fresh and whole, they must often have been raised to heaven from her mother's side.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gretel emp-tied her pinafore until pearls and precious stones ran about the room, and Hansel threw one handful after another out of his pocket to add to them.
-- For a long time all went well; they lived in great comfort, and prospered so far as to be able to add considerably to their stores.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had the honour to have much conver-sation with Brutus; and was told, 'that his ancestor Junius, Socrates, Epaminondas, Cato the younger, Sir Thomas More, and himself were perpetually together:' a sextumvirate, to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh.
-- 'Add to this, the pleasure of seeing the various revolu-tions of states and empires; the changes in the lower and 265upper world; ancient cities in ruins, and obscure villages become the seats of kings; famous rivers lessening into shallow brooks; the ocean leaving one coast dry, and over-whelming another; the discovery of many countries yet unknown; barbarity overrunning the politest nations, and the most barbarous become civilized.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate.
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