when是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. /pron. 何时; 当时conj. 那时; 然后; 而,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You will reach a vil-lage in the evening; and when you get there, you will see two inns opposite to each other, one of which is very pleas-ant and beautiful to look at: go not in there, but rest for the night in the other, though it may appear to you to be very poor and mean.'
-- He met the fox, who gave him the good advice: but when he came to the two inns, his eldest brother was standing at the window where the merrymaking was, and called to him to come in; and he could not withstand the temptation, but went in, and forgot the golden bird and his country in the same manner.
-- When they came to the village, the son followed the fox's counsel, and without looking about him went to the shabby inn and rested there all night at his ease.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There is an air of truth apparent through the whole; and indeed the author was so distinguished for his veracity, that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbours at Redriff, when any one af-firmed a thing, to say, it was as true as if Mr. Gulliver had spoken it.
-- When I formerly hinted to you something of this in a letter, you were pleased to answer that you were afraid of giving offence; that people in power were very watchful over the press, and apt not only to interpret, but to pun-ish every thing which looked like an innuendo (as I think you call it).
-- But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thousand leagues distance, in another reign, be applied to any of the Yahoos, who now are said to govern the herd; especially at a time when I little thought, or feared, the unhappiness of living under them?
-- Have not I the most reason to complain, when I see these very Yahoos carried by Houyhnhnms in a vehicle, as if they were brutes, and those the rational creatures?
-- Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consid-er, when you insisted on the motive of public good, that the Yahoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it has proved; for, instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corrup-tions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my in- tentions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'If you please, sir, when they can get any to break, they do break horses in the ring, sir.'
-- But, whereas the girl was so dark-eyed and dark-haired, that she seemed to receive a deeper and more lustrous colour from the sun, when it shone upon her, the boy was so light-eyed and light-haired that the self-same rays appeared to draw out of him what little colour he ever possessed.
-- And he had it in charge from high authority to bring about the great public-office Millennium, when Commissioners should reign upon earth.
-- When from thy boiling store, thou shalt fill each jar brim full by-and-by, dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking within or sometimes only maim him and distort him!
-- He had reached the neutral ground upon the outskirts of the town, which was neither town nor country, and yet was either spoiled, when his ears were invaded by the sound of music.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They were truly so wonderful that even now I am bewildered when I think of them.
-- One day, after passing some hours in the laboratory--my uncle being absent at the time--I suddenly felt the necessity of renovating the tissues--i.e., I was hungry, and was about to rouse up our old French cook, when my uncle, Professor Von Hardwigg, suddenly opened the street door, and came rushing upstairs.
-- There was a reason, and it may be regarded as a good one, why my uncle objected to display his learning more than was absolutely necessary: he stammered; and when intent upon explaining the phenomena of the heavens, was apt to find himself at fault, and allude in such a vague way to sun, moon, and stars that few were able to comprehend his meaning.
-- To tell the honest truth, when the right word would not come, it was generally replaced by a very powerful adjective.
-- In fact, there were periods in his discourse when he would finally give up and swallow his discomfiture--in a glass of water.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She married Clifford Chatterley in 1917, when he was home for a month on leave.
-- When the girls came home for the summer holidays of 1913, when Hilda was twenty and Connie eighteen, their father could see plainly that they had had the love experi-ence.
-- When you don't have them they hate you be-cause you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason.
-- When Miss Chatterley Emma came down to London from the Midlands to do some nursing work, she was very witty in a quiet way about Sir Geoffrey and his determined patriotism.
-- But when it came too close and oneself became ridiculous too...?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So did the horses with drowsy bells, in long files of carts, creeping slowly towards the interior; so did their recumbent drivers, when they were awake, which rarely happened; so did the exhausted labourers in the fields.
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