black是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 黑(色) 的; 黑暗的n. 黑(色) ; 黑暗; 黑人,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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Perhaps Ikki the Porcupine had told him; but he said to Mowgli when they were deep in the jungle, as the boy lay with his head on Bagheera's beautiful black skin, 'Little Brother, how often have I told thee that Shere Khan is thy enemy?'
-- 'Oh, thou art a man's cub,' said the Black Panther very tenderly.
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:
-- In conse-quence of this bad fashion, a man, who is too conscientious to misspend his days among the women, in learning the names of black marks, may never hear of the deeds of his fa-thers, nor feel a pride in striving to outdo them.
-- You might as well expect the river to lie still on the brink of those black rocks a mile above us, though your own ears tell you that it is tumbling over them at this very moment.'
-- returned the disappointed scout; 'I heard the imp brushing over the dry leaves, like a black snake, and blinking a glimpse of him, just over ag'in yon big pine, I pulled as it might be on the scent; but 'twouldn't do!and yet for a reasoning aim, if any-body but myself had touched the trigger, I should call it a quick sight; and I may be accounted to have experience in these matters, and one who ought to know.
-- At length they reached a point in the river where the roving eye of Heyward be-came riveted on a cluster of black objects, collected at a spot where the high bank threw a deeper shadow than usual on the dark waters.
-- 'Such old foxes as Chingachgook and myself are not often caught in a barrow with one hole,' said Hawkeye, laughing; 'you can easily see the cunning of the place the rock is black limestone, which everybody knows is soft; it makes no uncomfortable pillow, where brush and pine wood is scarce; well, the fall was once a few yards below us, and I dare to say was, in its time, as regular and as handsome a sheet of water as any along the Hudson.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was broad-shouldered and double-jointed, with short curly black hair, and a bluff but not unpleasant countenance, having a mingled air of fun and arrogance From his Herculean frame and great powers of limb he had received the nickname of BROM BONES, by which he was universally known.
-- A small wool hat rested on the top of his nose, for so his scanty strip of forehead might be called, and the skirts of his black coat fluttered out almost to the horses tail.
-- There was the honest cockrobin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds, and the golden- winged woodpecker with his crimson crest, his broad black gor-get, and splendid plumage; and the cedar-bird, with its red tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feathers; and the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light blue coat and white underclothes, screaming and chat-tering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove.
-- He was the admiration of all the negroes; who, having gathered, of all ages and sizes, from the farm and the neighborhood, stood forming a pyramid of shining black faces at every door and window; gazing with delight at the scene; rolling their white eye-balls, and showing grinning rows of ivory from ear to ear.
-- Over a deep black part of the stream, not far from the church, was formerly thrown a wooden bridge; the road that led to it, and the bridge it-self, were thickly shaded by overhanging trees, which cast a gloom about it, even in the daytime; but occasioned a fear-ful darkness at night.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a high dado of white wood and a green paper on which were etchings by Whistler in neat black frames.
-- Her black dress, simple to austerity, suggested her bereaved condition, and I was innocently astonished that notwithstanding a real emotion she was able to dress the part she had to play according to her notions of seemliness.
-- You could wander along the canal till you came to broad green fields, with windmills here and there, in which cattle, black and white, grazed lazily.
-- He had great neatness of person, and he continued to wear his spruce black coat and his bowler hat, always a little too small for him, in a dapper, jaunty manner.
-- He was dressed in the deepest mourning, and on his bowler was a broad black band.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After having begun as a volunteer at Illinois, under Ulysses Grant, he fought at Paducah, Belmont, Pittsburg Landing, at the siege of Corinth, Port Gibson, Black River, Chattanooga, the Wilderness, on the Potomac, everywhere and valiantly, a soldier worthy of the general who said, "I never count my dead!"
-- It was he who, after the affair of the Black River, determined at any cost to keep his place at the wicket of the telegraph office, and after having announced to his journal the result of the battle, telegraphed for two hours the first chapters of the Bible.
-- His black shoulders could be seen emerging at each stroke.
-- Opposite the islet, the beach consisted first of sand, covered with black stones, which were now appearing little by little above the retreating tide.
-- I recognize them by the double band of black on the wing, by the white tail, and by their slate-colored plumage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The breast of his coat was ornamented with an outside pocket from which there peeped forth the cleanest end of a very large and very ill-favoured handkerchief; his dirty wristbands were pulled on as far as possible and ostentatiously folded back over his cuffs; he displayed no gloves, and carried a yellow cane having at the top a bone hand with the semblance of a ring on its little finger and a black ball in its grasp.
-- His black eyes were restless, sly, and cunning; his mouth and chin, bristly with the stubble of a coarse hard beard; and his complexion was one of that kind which never looks clean or wholesome.
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