pregnant是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 怀孕的, 意义深远的,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I foresee that the future is pregnant with events, and that there is much that needs explanation.
-- VIII HIS same morning dawned for the prince pregnant with Tno less painful presentiments, which fact his physical state was, of course, quite enough to account for; but he was so indefinably melancholy, his sadness could not attach it-self to anything in particular, and this tormented him more than anything else.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The words of Gamut were, as has been seen, in his native tongue; and to Duncan they seem pregnant with some hidden mean- ing, though nothing present assisted him in discovering the object of their allusion.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Exhibiting a face pregnant with intention, he entered the snowy field.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Don't be sinning," cried the pregnant woman.
-- Maria Pablovna walked, because she yielded her place on the wagon to a pregnant woman; Simonson, because he would not profit by class advantages.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Maybelle looked so very pregnant it was a disgrace for her to be out in public, even if she did have her shawl carefullydraped over her.
-- Ellenwas ill, perhaps dying, and here was Scarlett helpless in Atlanta with a pregnant woman on her hands and two armiesbetween her and home.
-- She looked worse than any pregnant woman she hadever seen.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet what depths of the soul does Jonah's deep sealine sound!what a pregnant lesson to us is this prophet!What a noble thing is that canticle in the fish's belly!How billow-like and boisterously grand!We feel the floods surging over us; we sound with him to the kelpy bottom of the waters; sea-weed and all the slime of the sea is about us!But what is this lesson that the book of Jonah teaches?
-- One way and another, it has begotten events so remarkable in themselves, and so continuously momentous in their sequential issues, that whaling may well be regarded as that Egyptian mother, who bore offspring themselves pregnant from her womb.
-- Alone, in such remotest waters, that though you sailed a thousand miles, and passed a thousand shores, you would not come to any chiseled hearth-stone, or aught hospitable beneath that part of the sun; in such latitudes and longitudes, pursuing too such a calling as he does, the whaleman is wrapped by influences all tending to make his fancy pregnant with many a mighty birth.
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