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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was too unfortunate even to come through a supper likeanybody else.
-- What evenings, when the candles came, and I was expected toemploy myself, but not daring to read an entertaining book, poredover some hard-headed harder- hearted treatise on arithmetic;when the tables of weights and measures set themselves to tunes,as Rule Britannia, or Away with Melancholy; when they wouldn'tstand still to be learnt, but would go threading my grandmother'sneedle through my unfortunate head, in at one ear and out at theother!
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'It is unfortunate that they cannot stay longer but it seems a case of necessity.
-- Harriet was farther unfortunate in the tone of her com-panions at Mrs. Goddard's; Mr. Elton being the adoration of all the teachers and great girls in the school; and it must be at Hartfield only that she could have any chance of hearing him spoken of with cooling moderation or repellent truth.
-- I would be understood to mean, that it can be only weak, irresolute characters, (whose happiness must be always at the mercy of chance,) who will suffer an unfortunate acquaintance to be an in-convenience, an oppression for ever.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "What a bother this dusting is!I am always in some unfortunate plight or other," Bathsheba said, complainingly.
-- 'Tis very unfortunate for the boy."
-- "Sheep are such unfortunate animals! there's always something happening to them!I never knew a flock pass a year without getting into some scrape or other."
-- It had gradually become rumoured in the village that the body to be brought and buried that day was all that was left of the unfortunate Fanny Robin who had followed the Eleventh from Casterbridge through Melchester and onwards.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He is a truly unfortunate creature, everybody laughs at him--we all call him 'Father Goriot.'"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My father loved Beaufort with the truest friendship and was deeply grieved by his retreat in these unfortunate circumstances.
-- I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth.
-- I visited Edinburgh with languid eyes and mind; and yet that city might have interested the most unfortunate being.
-- 'Nothing indeed could be more unfortunate and agoniz-ing than the strange chances that have lately occurred.
-- And poor Clerval ' The name of my unfortunate and murdered friend was an agitation too great to be endured in my weak state; I shed tears.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The unfortunate boy had not only beencheated of the love he thought he had won but also of his high hopes of honor and glory on the field of battle.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.
-- I think it will be conceded by my most disputatious reader, that she could hardly have directed an unfortunate boy to do anything in the wide world more difficult to be done under the circumstances.
-- We were all deeply persuaded that the unfortunate Wopsle had gone too far, and had better stop in his reckless career while there was yet time.
-- I wondered whether the two swollen faces were of Mr. Jaggers's family, and, if he were so unfortunate as to have had a pair of such ill-looking relations, why he stuck them on that dusty perch for the blacks and flies to settle on, instead of giving them a place at home.
-- Upon my unfortunate townsman all these incidents accumulated with playful effect.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the mean time, I here conclude the sec-ond part of my unfortunate voyages.
-- I therefore hoped they would not treat me as an enemy, since I meant them no harm, but was a poor Yahoo seeking some desolate place where to pass the remainder of his unfortunate life.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Because, Tom,' said his sister, after silently watching the sparks awhile, 'as I get older, and nearer growing up, I often sit wondering here, and think how unfortunate it is for me that I can't reconcile you to home better than I am able to do.
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