escape是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 逃跑, 逃脱v. 逃跑; 避开, 避免,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。
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is very unlucky; but as I have actually paid the visit, we cannot escape the acquain-tance now.'
-- He wisely resolved to be particularly careful that no sign of admiration should NOW escape him, nothing that could elevate her with the hope of influencing his felicity; sensible that if such an idea had been suggested, his behaviour during the last day must have material weight in confirming or crushing it.
-- They were soon gone again, rising from their seats with an activity which took their brother by surprise, and hurry-ing off as if eager to escape from Mrs. Bennet's civilities.
-- But here she did injustice to the fire and in- dependence of his character, for it led him to escape out of Longbourn House the next morning with admirable sly- ness, and hasten to Lucas Lodge to throw himself at her feet.
-- As she had heard no carriage, she thought it not unlikely to be Lady Catherine, and under that apprehension was putting away her half-fin-ished letter that she might escape all impertinent questions, when the door opened, and, to her very great surprise, Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Darcy only, entered the room.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They asked me what I was, in Portuguese, and in Span-ish, and in French, but I understood none of them; but at last a Scotch sailor, who was on board, called to me: and I answered him, and told him I was an Englishman, that I had made my escape out of slavery from the Moors, at Sal-lee; they then bade me come on board, and very kindly took me in, and all my goods.
-- So void was I of everything that was good, or the least sense of what I was, or was to be, that, in the greatest deliv-erances I enjoyed - such as my escape from Sallee; my being taken up by the Portuguese master of the ship; my being planted so well in the Brazils; my receiving the cargo from England, and the like - I never had once the words 'Thank God!'
-- First, I had observed that the same day that I broke away from my father and friends and ran away to Hull, in order to go to sea, the same day afterwards I was taken by the Sal-lee man-of-war, and made a slave; the same day of the year that I escaped out of the wreck of that ship in Yarmouth Roads, that same day-year afterwards I made my escape from Sallee in a boat; the same day of the year I was born on - viz.
-- Well, however, I lugged this mon-ey home to my cave, and laid it up, as I had done that before which I had brought from our own ship; but it was a great pity, as I said, that the other part of this ship had not come to my share: for I am satisfied I might have loaded my ca-noe several times over with money; and, thought I, if I ever escape to England, it might lie here safe enough till I come again and fetch it.
-- But as this is usually the fate of young heads, so reflection upon the folly of it is as commonly the exercise of more years, or of the dear-bought experience of time - so it was with me now; and yet so deep had the mis-take taken root in my temper, that I could not satisfy myself in my station, but was continually poring upon the means and possibility of my escape from this place; and that I may, with greater pleasure to the reader, bring on the remaining part of my story, it may not be improper to give some ac-count of my first conceptions on the subject of this foolish scheme for my escape, and how, and upon what foundation, I acted.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The lady would probably have passed without suspicion, had he not convinced Miss Dashwood that what concerned her ought not to escape his lips.
-- She wondered, with little intermission what could be the reason of it; was sure there must be some bad news, and thought over every kind of distress that could have befallen him, with a fixed determination that he should not escape them all.
-- Elinor, who saw as plainly by this, as if she had seen the direction, that it must come from Willoughby, felt immediately such a sickness at heart as made her hardly able to hold up her head, and sat in such a general tremour as made her fear it impossible to escape Mrs. Jennings's notice.
-- She paused over it for some time with indignant astonishment; then read it again and again; but every perusal only served to increase her abhorrence of the man, and so bitter were her feelings against him, that she dared not trust herself to speak, lest she might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement, not as a loss to her of any possible good but as an escape from the worst and most irremediable of all evils, a connection, for life, with an unprincipled man, as a deliverance the most real, a blessing the most important.
-- She was not a woman of many words; for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas; and of the few syllables that did escape her, not one fell to the share of Miss Dashwood, whom she eyed with the spirited determination of disliking her at all events.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Carrie readily acquiesced, glad to escape the trying situation, and liberal now that she saw a way out.
-- "Oh, no," said Drouet, "just couldn't escape her this time."
-- It seemed to her as if she had made a splendid escape and that it would be foolhardy to think of applying in that quarter again.
-- He decided to escape and seek a more secluded hotel.
-- The change was too obvious to escape detection.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So if we don't GIVE them no-tice there won't be nobody nor nothing to interfere with us, and so after all our hard work and trouble this escape 'll go off perfectly flat; won't amount to nothing won't be noth-ing TO it.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- * A military policeman Pinocchio saw the Carabineer from afar and tried his best to escape between the legs of the big fellow, but without success.
-- Pinocchio, not knowing where to hide his shame, tried to escape from the room, but his nose had become so long that he could not get it out of the door.
-- And as he struggled and squirmed like an eel to escape from him, the Green Fisherman took a stout cord and tied him hand and foot, and threw him into the bottom of the tub with the others.
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