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《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It's very unfortunate for both of us.'
-- 'Your cruel commands are implicitly to be obeyed; though I am the most unfortunate fellow in the world, I believe, to have been insensible to all other women, and to have fallen prostrate at last under the foot of the most beautiful, and the most engaging, and the most imperious.
-- 'My unfortunate child.'
-- That unfortunate lady hereupon essaying to offer testimony, without any voice and with painful gestures expressive of an inflamed throat, became so aggravating and underwent so many facial contortions, that Mr. Bounderby, unable to bear it, seized her by the arm and shook her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Yes--of course, and yet you go out for a stroll, unfortunate boy!"
-- It is not contagious but hereditary, so that marriage is strictly prohibited to these unfortunate creatures.
-- In many doubtful or dangerous places, it became necessary for us to be tied together by a long rope in order that should any one of us be unfortunate enough to slip, he would be supported by his companions.
-- "Giganteo--" Impossible!The unfortunate word would not come out.
-- It was therefore necessary to pass for humble and unfortunate shipwrecked travelers.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The only unfortunate thing was that men lagged so far behind women in the matter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If the playfulness of Monsieur Rigaud were at all expressed by his smile at this point, the relations of Madame Rigaud might have said that they would have much preferred his correcting that unfortunate woman seriously.
-- They knew that, and their machinations were conducted in secret; consequently, Madame Rigaud and I were brought into frequent and unfortunate collision.
-- 'Yes, I am afraid I am very little indeed,' returned the Child of the Marshalsea; and so began to sob over that unfortunate defect of hers, which came so often in her way.
-- 'It may have been his unfortunate destiny.
-- 'I don't know why we unfortunate creatures should be supposed to want common sense, but it is generally taken for granted that we do.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When Mr. March lost his property in trying to help an unfortunate friend, the two oldest girls begged to be allowed to do something toward their own support, at least.
-- It was a most unfortunate mo-ment for denouncing Amy, and Jenny knew it.
-- So did everyone else, even 'Croaker' as the girls called the old lady, and the unfortunate dinner ended gaily, with bread and butter, ol-ives and fun.
-- I've seen unfortunate little creatures left to servants, or backward ones pushed forward, when it's real cruelty.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A great pity, now, that this unfortunate whale should be hare-lipped.
-- Thinking that viewed in some particular lights, the case might by a bare possibility in some small degree be deemed, under the circumstances, a rather hard one, an honest clergyman of the town respectfully addressed a note to his Grace, begging him to take the case of those unfortunate mariners into full consideration.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Your late unfortunate husband should have taught it you; and then, perhaps, he might have been alive now.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'How unfortunate that you should have used such very strong expressions in speaking of Wickham to Mr. Darcy, for now they DO appear wholly undeserved.'
-- But Mr. Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on, in any of those pleasures which too often console the unfortunate for their folly of their vice.
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