room是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 房间, 室, 空间, 地方; 余地,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This left the room in a twilight.
-- When Mrs. Hall went to clear away the stranger's lunch, her idea that his mouth must also have been cut or disfigured in the accident she supposed him to have suffered, was confirmed, for he was smoking a pipe, and all the time that she was in the room he never loosened the silk muffler he had wrapped round the lower part of his face to put the mouthpiece to his lips.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Montgomery, who was steering, brought the boat by me, and rising, caught and fastened my painter to the tiller to tow me, for there was no room aboard.
-- 'There's my room with the outer door ' 'That's it,' said the elder man, promptly, looking at Mont-gomery; and all three of us went towards the enclosure.
-- He left the room by the outer door, as if to avoid opening the inner one again.
-- Presently our meal came to an end; the misshapen mon-ster with the pointed ears cleared the remains away, and Montgomery left me alone in the room again.
-- The emotional appeal of those yells grew upon me steadi-ly, grew at last to such an exquisite expression of suffering that I could stand it in that confined room no longer.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Room for the leader of the Pack!Spring, Akela!'
-- He only wanted room by the sea for his nursery.
-- So long as the bungalow is empty, we are king and queen of the gar-den; and remember that as soon as our eggs in the melon bed hatch (as they may tomorrow), our children will need room and quiet.'
-- It was dark in the hole; and Rikki-tikki never knew when it might open out and give Nagaina room to turn and strike at him.
-- But, since native children have no nerves worth speaking of, in two hours he was lying very contentedly in Petersen Sahib's hammock with Petersen Sahib's shooting-coat un-der his head, and a glass of warm milk, a little brandy, with a dash of quinine, inside of him, and while the old hairy, scarred hunters of the jungles sat three deep before him, looking at him as though he were a spirit, he told his tale in short words, as a child will, and wound up with: 'Now, if I lie in one word, send men to see, and they will find that the elephant folk have trampled down more room in their dance-room, and they will find ten and ten, and many times ten, tracks leading to that dance-room.
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:
-- Munro, instead of demanding the result of the young man's mission, paced the room for a few moments, with his hands behind his back, and his head inclined toward the floor, like a man lost in thought.
-- After a short pause, one of the elder Indians was about to speak, when a dark-looking object was seen rolling out of an adjoining apartment, into the very center of the room where they stood.
-- The whole deception practised by both Dun-can and Hawkeye was, of course, laid naked, and no room was found, even for the most superstitious of the tribe, any longer to affix a doubt on the character of the occurrenc-es.
-- 'Do my young men leave the Delawares room on the mountains for their hunts?'
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:
-- In my timidity I wandered up and down the street while I screwed up my courage to ring the bell; and then, sick with apprehension, was ushered into an airless room full of people.
-- Miss Waterford was giving a tea-party, and her small room was more than usually full.
-- There were no flowers, and various knick-knacks, put away during the summer, had not been replaced; there was something cheerless and stiff about the room which had always seemed so friendly; it gave you an odd feeling, as though someone were lying dead on the other side of the wall.
-- His room is exactly as it was when he left it.
-- In that small room he seemed even bigger than I remembered him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He ran backwards and forwards from one room to another, showing in his way how weary he was of being shut up.
-- "If it is a joke," cried Pencroft, "it is a very stupid one!To come home and find no staircase to go up to your room by that's nothing for weary men to laugh at."
-- And when they thought of the valuables which this storeroom contained, the patience so much recommended by the engineer, fast changed into great irritation, and there certainly was room for it.
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