innocent是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 无罪的; 无害的; 天真的, 无知的; n. 天真无邪的人,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thereupon he went away, and when he returned next day she had not done it, and said: 'Why should I shed the blood of an innocent boy who has never harmed anyone?'
-- So they dared no longer hide the truth from her, but said it was the will of Heaven, and that her birth was only the innocent cause of it; but the little girl mourned sadly about it every day, and thought herself bound to do all she could to bring her broth-ers back; and she had neither rest nor ease, till at length one day she stole away, and set out into the wide world to find her brothers, wherever they might be, and free them, what-ever it might cost her.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All crimes against the state, are punished here with the utmost severity; but, if the person accused makes his innocence plainly to appear upon his trial, the accuser is immediately put to an ignominious death; and out of his goods or lands the innocent person is quadruply recompensed for the loss of his time, for the danger he underwent, for the hardship of 65his imprisonment, and for all the charges he has been at in making his defence; or, if that fund be deficient, it is largely supplied by the crown.
-- I am here obliged to vindicate the reputation of an excel-lent lady, who was an innocent sufferer upon my account.
-- This I solemnly declare to be a most infamous falsehood, without any grounds, further than that her grace was pleased to treat me with all innocent marks of freedom and friendship.
-- ''That the said Quinbus Flestrin, having brought the imperial fleet of Blefuscu into the royal port, and being af-terwards commanded by his imperial majesty to seize all the other ships of the said empire of Blefuscu, and reduce that empire to a province, to be governed by a viceroy from hence, and to destroy and put to death, not only all the Big-endian exiles, but likewise all the people of that empire who would not immediately forsake the Big-endian heresy, he, the said Flestrin, like a false traitor against his most auspi-cious, serene, imperial majesty, did petition to be excused from the said service, upon pretence of unwillingness to force the consciences, or destroy the liberties and lives of an innocent people.
-- For having strictly examined all the persons of greatest name in the courts of princes, for a hundred years past, I found how the world had been misled by prostitute writers, to ascribe the greatest exploits in war, to cowards; the wisest counsel, to fools; sincerity, to flatterers; Roman virtue, to betrayers of their country; piety, to atheists; chastity, to sodomites; truth, to informers: how many innocent and excellent persons had been condemned to death or banishment by the practising of great ministers upon the corruption of judges, and the malice of factions: how many villains had been exalted to the highest places of trust, power, dignity, and profit: how great a share in the motions and events of courts, councils, and senates might be challenged by bawds, whores, pimps, parasites, and buffoons.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sissy hesitated before replying, and so plainly showed her sense that they were entering on forbidden ground, that Louisa added, 'No one hears us; and if any one did, I am sure no harm could be found in such an innocent question.'
-- 'If I was to live wi' her an' not marry her saying such a thing could be, which it never could or would, an' her so good there's a law to punish me, in every innocent child belonging to me?'
-- 'Why, father,' she pursued, 'what a strange question to ask me!The baby-preference that even I have heard of as common among children, has never had its innocent resting-place in my breast.
-- Remembrances of how she had journeyed to the little that she knew, by the enchanted roads of what she and millions of innocent creatures had hoped and imagined; of how, first coming upon Reason through the tender light of Fancy, she had seen it a beneficent god, deferring to gods as great as itself; not a grim Idol, cruel and cold, with its victims bound hand to foot, and its big dumb shape set up with a sightless stare, never to be moved by anything but so many calculated tons of leverage what had she to do with these?
-- 'Yet, father, if I had been stone blind; if I had groped my way by my sense of touch, and had been free, while I knew the shapes and surfaces of things, to exercise my fancy somewhat, in regard to them; I should have been a million times wiser, happier, more loving, more contented, more innocent and human in all good respects, than I am with the eyes I have.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The remembrance of my innocent childhood, the memory of my mother, known only in my infancy, came welling forth from my heart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her innocent face looked back so brightly over his shoulder, as he walked away with her, singing her the song of the child's game:'Who passes by this road so late?Compagnon de la Majolaine!Who passes by this road so late?Always gay!'
-- As she read on, years seemed to fall away from her son like the imaginings of a dream, and all the old dark horrors of his usual preparation for the sleep of an innocent child to overshadow him.
-- Worldly wise in hard and poor necessities, she was innocent in all things else.
-- If ever pride were innocent, it was innocent in Little Dorrit when she grew boastful of her father.
-- The moment he addresses himself to the Government, he becomes a public offender!Sir,' said Mr Meagles, in danger of making himself excessively hot again, 'he ceases to be an innocent citizen, and becomes a culprit.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The big chamber was the scene of many innocent rev-els.
-- she had been so simply taught that there was no nonsense in her head, and at fifteen she was as innocent and frank as any child.
-- With the delightful enthusiasm of youth, they took the solitary boy into their midst and made much of him, and he found something very charming in the innocent companionship of these simple-hearted girls.
-- For, innocent and unsuspicious as she was, she could not help under-standing the gossip of her friends.
-- Her innocent friendship with Laurie was spoiled by the silly speeches she had overheard.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So I kindled the shavings; helped prop up the innocent little idol; offered him burnt biscuit with Queequeg; salamed before him twice or thrice; kissed his nose; and that done, we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences and all the world.
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