sing是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 唱, 演唱; 鸡叫,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:
-- We live like the birds, we sing and fly about.
-- "Well, now," said the geographer to himself, "let the Australian birds be as queer as they may, and even granting the paroquets are the most musical in the world, they can't sing Mozart!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Oho!we'll make Nastasia Philipovna sing another song now!'
-- 'She was very quiet always and I remember once, when she had suddenly begun singing at her work, everyone said, 'Marie tried to sing today!'
-- How often did I sing him to sleep when I was half dead with hunger!In short, I was more than a father to him, and now now he jeers at me!Even if I did cross myself, and pray for the repose of the soul of the Comtesse du Barry, what does it matter?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was returning from Oechalia, where Eurytus lived and reigned, and boasted that he would surpass even the Muses, daugh-ters of aegis-bearing Jove, if they should sing against him; whereon they were angry, and maimed him.
-- There was a bard also to sing to them and play his lyre, while two tumblers went about performing in the midst of them when the man struck up with his tune.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sing hymns about 'all thine.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then they sing long, long songs with odd native quavers at the end of them, and the day seems longer than most people's whole lives, and perhaps they make a mud castle with mud figures of men and horses and buffaloes, and put reeds into the men's hands, and pretend that they are kings and the figures are their armies, or that they are gods to be worshiped.
-- And she sang the low, crooning seal song that all the mother seals sing to their babies: You mustn't swim till you're six weeks old, Or your head will be sunk by your heels; And summer gales and Killer Whales Are bad for baby seals.
-- Lukannon This is the great deep-sea song that all the St. Paul seals sing when they are heading back to their beaches in the summer.
-- Men shoot us in the water and club us on the land; Men drive us to the Salt House like silly sheep and tame, And still we sing Lukannon before the sealers came.
-- Let us sing about the great, the red-eyed Rikki-tikki!'
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:
-- 'I thought as much,' returned Hawkeye, seating himself; 'and as he had got the cover of the lake afore Uncas pulled upon him, it is more than probable the knave will sing his lies about some great ambushment, in which he was outly-ing on the trail of two Mohicans and a white hunter for the officers can be considered as little better than idlers in such a scrimmage.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His only resource on such occasions, either to drown thought or drive away evil spirits, was to sing psalm tunes and the good people of Sleepy Hollow, as they sat by their doors of an evening, were often filled with awe at hearing his nasal melody, 'in linked sweetness long drawn out,' floating from the distant hill, or along the dusky road.
-- He affirmed that on returning one night from the neighboring village of Sing Sing, he had been overtaken by this midnight trooper; that he had offered to race with him for a bowl of punch, and should have won it too, for Daredevil beat the goblin horse all hollow, but just as they came to the church bridge, the Hessian bolted, and vanished in a flash of fire.
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:
-- Then they would go and eat themselves sick, and dance, and sing hymns.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But there was the sun shining and there were the birds singing, as the sun only shines and the birds only sing on holidays and half-holidays; there were the trees waving to all free boys to climb and nestle among their leafy branches; the hay, entreating them to come and scatter it to the pure air; the green corn, gently beckoning towards wood and stream; the smooth ground, rendered smoother still by blending lights and shadows, inviting to runs and leaps, and long walks God knows whither.
-- 'Why, they say,' replied the boy, looking up into her face, that you will be an Angel, before the birds sing again.
-- 'The birds sing again in spring,' thought the child, as she leaned at her casement window, and gazed at the declining sun.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But wait till you are hungry and sleepy, you will sing another tune," Peter Gerasimovitch said, laughing still louder.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To adorn themselves with flowers, to dance, to sing in the sunlight: so much was left of the artistic spirit, and no more.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'In winter, when the fields are white,I sing this song for your delight only I don't sing it,' he added, as an explanation.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I promise to go to school every day, to study, and to succeed--" "Boys always sing that song when they want their own will."
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