follow是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 跟随, 接着; 领会; 沿着…前进, 遵循; 结果是,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Although well used to ghostly company by this time, Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trem-bled beneath him, and he found that he could hardly stand when he prepared to follow it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The gentleman from Tellson's had nothing left for it but to empty his glass with an air of stolid desperation, settle his odd little flaxen wig at the ears, and follow the waiter to Miss Manette's apartment.
-- When the quiet of the garret had been long undisturbed, and his heaving breast and shaken form had long yielded to the calm that must follow all storms emblem to human-ity, of the rest and silence into which the storm called Life must hush at last they came forward to raise the father and daughter from the ground.
-- Both resorted to the drinking-table without stint, but each in a different way; the lion for the most part reclining with his hands in his waist-band, looking at the fire, or occasionally flirting with some 122 A tale of two citieslighter document; the jackal, with knitted brows and intent face, so deep in his task, that his eyes did not even follow the hand he stretched out for his glass which often groped about, for a minute or more, before it found the glass for his lips.
-- Can you follow me, Lucie?
-- Let me follow in her steps.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then remembering his brother Nikolay, he resolved to himself that he would never allow himself to forget him, that he would follow him up, and not lose sight of him, so as to be ready to help when things should go ill with him.
-- Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was distasteful to her to read, that is, to follow the reflection of other people's lives.
-- She laughed contemptuously and took up her book again; but now she was definitely unable to follow what she read.
-- They, of course, follow her.
-- How can she help it if they're all in love with her, and follow her about like shadows?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This was Fix, one of the detectives who had been dispatched from England in search of the bank robber; it was his task to narrowly watch every passenger who arrived at Suez, and to follow up all who seemed to be suspicious characters, or bore a resemblance to the description of the criminal, which he had received two days before from the police headquarters at London.
-- "Send a dispatch to London for a warrant of arrest to be dispatched instantly to Bombay, take passage on board the Mongolia, follow my rogue to India, and there, on English ground, arrest him politely, with my warrant in my hand, and my hand on his shoulder."
-- He had resolved to follow the supposed robber to Calcutta, and farther, if necessary.
-- "Be so good, both of you, as to follow me."
-- At half-past eight the door opened, the policeman appeared, and, requesting them to follow him, led the way to an adjoining hall.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I did expect I'd have to follow you out on the road and be a hobo, but I never expected to be a Pillar of the Community.
-- "Gosh, I'd follow him through fire!And the way he lays out the crapehangers that criticize public health results!If I could only manage to meet him and talk to him for a couple o' minutes--" He lingered after the lecture.
-- As he had never taught them to love him and follow him as a leader, they questioned, they argued long and easily on doorsteps, they cackled that he was drunk.
-- As you must have seen from my work, I'm perfectly independent of him and entirely at your service, but I know his standing and I follow him, quite humbly."
-- It was at this time, when he might have become a Great Man, that he pitched over most of his own work and some of the duties of being Joyce's husband to follow Terry Wickett, which showed that he lacked common sense, because Terry was still an assistant while he himself was head of a department.
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:
-- The room was immediately crowded, yet Nastasya managed to follow the visitors in and stayed to listen.
-- But it does not follow from that that Newton had a right to murder people right and left and to steal every day in the market.
-- One thing only is clear, that the appearance of all these grades and sub-divisions of men must follow with unfailing regu-larity some law of nature.
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