unfortunate是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 不幸的; 可取的,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As I was say-ing ' Her look so discomposed him that he stopped, wan-dered, and began anew: 'As I was saying; if Monsieur Manette had not died; if he had suddenly and silently disappeared; if he had been spirited away; if it had not been difficult to guess to what 32 A tale of two citiesdreadful place, though no art could trace him; if he had an enemy in some compatriot who could exercise a privilege that I in my own time have known the boldest people afraid to speak of in a whisper, across the water there; for instance, the privilege of filling up blank forms for the consignment of any one to the oblivion of a prison for any length of time; if his wife had implored the king, the queen, the court, the clergy, for any tidings of him, and all quite in vain; then the history of your father would have been the history of this unfortunate gentleman, the Doctor of Beauvais.'
-- 'You think it necessary to keep the unfortunate gentle-man so retired?'
-- With this view, he urged his son to hold her in conversation also, and led the unfortunate woman a hard life by dwell-ing on any causes of complaint he could bring against her, rather than he would leave her for a moment to her own reflections.
-- And what is the message to the unfortunate Gabelle in prison?'
-- More than enough of bad roads, bad equipages, and bad horses, he would have en-countered to delay him, though the fallen and unfortunate King of France had been upon his throne in all his glory; but, the changed times were fraught with other obstacles than these.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Ah, you shall hear.... We apologize in due form: we are in despair, we entreat forgiveness for the unfortunate misunderstanding.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Fix," said he, in a bantering tone, "shall we be so unfortunate as to lose you when we get to Hong Kong?"
-- Fix was not without his fears lest chance should direct the steps of the unfortunate servant, whom he had so badly treated, in this direction; in which case an explanation the reverse of satisfactory to the detective must have ensued.
-- "But the prisoners, our unfortunate fellow-travellers ""I cannot interrupt the trip," replied the conductor.
-- Passepartout was on the point of vigorously resenting the epithet, the reason of which he could not for the life of him comprehend; but he reflected that the unfortunate Fix was probably very much disappointed and humiliated in his self-esteem, after having so awkwardly followed a false scent around the world, and refrained.
-- He divided the one thousand pounds that remained between Passepartout and the unfortunate Fix, against whom he cherished no grudge.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It did not matter to him how clumsily her honey-colored hair was tucked under her black hat, a characterless little mushroom of a hat, but he did see and resent the contrast between her shirtwaist, with the third button missing, her checked skirt, her unfortunate bright brown bolero jacket, and Madeline's sleekness of blue serge.
-- He read European history aloud at Leora, who looked interested or at least forgiving; he worried the sentences in a copy of "The Golden Bowl" which an unfortunate school-teacher had left at the Tozers'; he borrowed a volume of Conrad from the village editor and afterward, as he drove the prairie roads, he was marching into jungle villages--sun helmets, orchids, lost temples of obscene and dog-faced deities, secret and sun-scarred rivers.
-- Round the two ladies and the unfortunate mouse gathered a crowd.
-- Letters demanded of Gottlieb, "Can you stand by, with the stuff of salvation in your hands, and watch thousands of these unfortunate people dying in St. Hubert, and what is more are you going to let the dreaded plague gain a foothold in the Western hemisphere?
-- These unfortunate cases he treated, giving the phage to alternate patients, in the somewhat barren almshouse of the parish, a whitewashed cabin the meaner against its vaulting background of banyans and breadfruit trees.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Since then, sir,' he went on after a brief pause 'Since then, owing to an unfortunate occurrence and through in-formation given by evil- intentioned persons in all which Darya Frantsovna took a leading part on the pretext that she had been treated with want of respect since then my daughter Sofya Semyonovna has been forced to take a yel-low ticket, and owing to that she is unable to go on living with us.
-- The assistant superintendent, still shaken by Raskol-nikov's disrespect, still fuming and obviously anxious to keep up his wounded dignity, pounced on the unfortunate smart lady, who had been gazing at him ever since he came in with an exceedingly silly smile.
-- From that evening, when I learnt how devoted he was to you all and how he loved and respected you especially, Katerina Ivanovna, in spite of his unfortunate weakness, from that evening we be-came friends芒聙娄.
-- According to his observations the patient's illness was due partly to his unfortunate material surroundings during the last few months, but it had partly also a moral origin, 'was, so to speak, the product of sever-al material and moral influences, anxieties, apprehensions, troubles, certain ideas 芒聙娄 and so on.'
-- 'To my thinking, you, with all your virtues, are not worth the little finger of that unfortunate girl at whom you throw stones.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Accordingly, when Mr. Peggotty came home about nine o'clock,this unfortunate Mrs. Gummidge was knitting in her corner, in avery wretched and miserable condition.
-- It seems to me, at this distance of time, as if my unfortunate studiesgenerally took this course.
-- My unfortunate friend the waiter, who had quite recovered hisspirits, did not appear to be disturbed by this, but joined in thegeneral admiration without being at all confused.
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