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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lord Glenarvan had in them a band of trusty fellows, skilled in their calling, devoted to himself, full of courage, and as practiced in handling fire-arms as in the maneuvering of a ship; a valiant little troop, ready to follow him any where, even in the most dangerous expeditions.
-- I mean to try and succeed where Krick, the missionary so unfortunately failed in 1846; in a word, I want to follow the course of the river Yarou-Dzangbo-Tchou, which waters Thibet for a distance of 1500 kilometres, flowing along the northern base of the Himalayas, and to find out at last whether this river does not join itself to the Brahmapoutre in the northeast of As-sam.
-- Follow our example.
-- "My advice is to follow the 37th parallel from the point where it touches the American continent to where it dips into the Atlantic, without deviating from it half a degree, and possibly in some part of its course we shall fall in with the shipwrecked party."
-- "Just follow me for a moment," he said, "across the American continent.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'So far as I can follow you, then, Mr. Holmes,' said Sir Henry Baskerville, 'someone cut out this message with a scissors ' 'Nail-scissors,' said Holmes.
-- 'You have not observed anyone follow or watch you?'
-- 'Why in thunder should anyone follow or watch me?'
-- If they had followed him the first day I argued that they would follow him also the second.
-- His method had the additional advantage that if they were to take a cab he was all ready to follow them.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He would like to give play to his imagination, and follow the inspiration of his genius, but a soldier is only at ease in the guard-room, and the pen stops half-way, a slave to discipline.
-- But you did not follow her example, and yet I am sure it was not through cowardice.
-- I shall follow the example of men who have made their fortunes.
-- I am confused and bewildered, I know; but, in a word, at such a moment, and before company, and all so-so-irregular, finishing off a game with a serious mat-ter like this, a matter of honour, and of heart, and ' 'I don't follow you, Afanasy Ivanovitch; you are losing your head.
-- 'I'm thinking that when you rise from your chair and go past me, I watch you, and follow you with my eyes; if your dress does but rustle, my heart sinks; if you leave the room, I remember every little word and action, and what your voice sounded like, and what you said.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Let it be a case, then, of give-and-take between us, and the rest of the gods will follow our lead.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And they'll follow that meal track to the lake and go browsing down the creek that leads out of it to find the robbers that killed me and took the things.
-- Next, for about a half an hour, I whoops now and then; at last I hears the answer a long ways off, and tries to follow it, but I couldn't do it, and directly I judged I'd got into a nest of towheads, for I had little dim glimpses of them on both sides of me sometimes just a narrow channel between, and some that I couldn't see I knowed was there because I'd hear the wash of the current against the old dead brush and trash that hung over the banks.
-- Up-stream boats didn't generly come close to us; they go out and follow the bars and hunt for easy water under the reefs; but nights like this they bull right up the channel against the whole river.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Let me tell you, for your own good, Pinocchio," said the Talking Cricket in his calm voice, "that those who follow that trade always end up in the hospital or in prison."
-- Should he go to school, or should he follow the pipes?
-- "Today I'll follow the pipes, and tomorrow I'll go to school.
-- "Take that path on your left and follow your nose.
-- "And why did you follow the advice of that false friend?"
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