intelligence是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 智力, 聪明; 理解力; 情报, 消息, 报导,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《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Harriet bore the intelligence very well blaming no-body and in every thing testifying such an ingenuousness of disposition and lowly opinion of herself, as must appear with particular advantage at that moment to her friend.
-- If she were to meet Miss Bates in her way! and upon its beginning to rain, Emma was obliged to expect that the weather would be detaining her at Mrs. Goddard's, and that the intelligence would undoubtedly rush upon her without preparation.
-- Though she did not feel the first intelligence as she might have done the day before, or an hour before, its interest soon increased; 218 Emmaand before their first conversation was over, she had talked herself into all the sensations of curiosity, wonder and re-gret, pain and pleasure, as to this fortunate Miss Hawkins, which could conduce to place the Martins under proper subordination in her fancy.
-- Smiles of intelligence passed between her and the gentle-man on first glancing towards Miss Fairfax; but it was most prudent to avoid speech.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The illusions of childhood had vanished, so also had the ideas he brought with him from the provinces; he had returned thither with an intelligence developed, with loftier ambitions, and saw things as they were at home in the old manor house.
-- Father Goriot raised his head at the words, and gave the two speakers a glance so full of intelligence and uneasiness that the lodgers beheld him with astonishment.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I eagerly hope that you will confirm this intelligence soon in your own handwriting.
-- The latter method of obtain-ing the desired intelligence was dilatory and unsatisfactory; besides, I had an insurmountable aversion to the idea of en-gaging myself in my loathsome task in my father's house while in habits of familiar intercourse with those I loved.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Most of all she learned how to conceal from men a sharp intelligence beneath a face assweet and bland as a baby's.
-- "Dear," he said quietly, "I am complimenting your intelligence by asking you to be my mistress without havingfirst seduced you."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- * *And now that I have given the one chapter to the theme that so filled my heart, and so often made it ache and ache again, I pass on unhindered, to the event that had impended over me longer yet; the event that had begun to be prepared for, before I knew that the world held Estella, and in the days when her baby intelligence was receiving its first distortions from Miss Havisham's wasting hands.
-- Herbert was rarely there less frequently than three times in a week, and he never brought me a single word of intelligence that was at all alarming.
-- The late Compeyson having been beforehand with him in intelligence of his return, and being so determined to bring him to book, I do not think he could have been saved.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He descended from the stage, and commanded that several ladders should be applied to my sides, on which above a hundred of the in-habitants mounted and walked towards my mouth, laden with baskets full of meat, which had been provided and sent thither by the king's orders, upon the first intelligence he received of me.
-- I had not yet seen it, and upon this notice of an intended invasion, I avoided appearing on that side of the coast, for fear of being discovered, by some of the enemy's ships, who had received no intelligence of me; all intercourse between the two empires having been strictly forbidden during the war, upon pain of death, and an embargo laid by our emperor upon all vessels whatsoev- er.
-- I observed, with much pleasure, that these two persons were in good intelligence with each other; and Caesar freely confessed to me, 'that the greatest actions of his own life were not equal, by many degrees, to the glory of taking it away.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'And pray, sir,' said she, 'if I may venture to ask a question appertaining to any subject on which you show reserve which is indeed hardy in me, for I well know you have a reason for everything you do have you received intelligence respecting the robbery?'
-- It was further agreed that he should not present himself to Mr. Sleary, lest his intentions should be mistrusted, or the intelligence of his arrival should cause his son to take flight anew; but, that the communication should be left to Sissy and Louisa to open; and that they should inform the cause of so much misery and disgrace, of his father's being at hand and of the purpose for which they had come.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, whatever may have been the intelligence of our horses, I had not the slightest reliance upon them, as a means of crossing a stormy arm of the sea.
-- In any case, I shall trust rather to my own intelligence than theirs."
-- This renewal of my youthful faith brought about a much greater amount of calm, and I was enabled to concentrate all my strength and intelligence on the terrible realities of my unprecedented situation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He brought me such joyful and wonderful intelligence about you!If he had not with his great kindness and gentleness, prepared me for it, father prepared me for it, father I think I could not have borne it.'
-- He felt so, too; but, nevertheless, was returning home from his counting-house by that end of the Yard to give them the intelligence that he had received another letter from Miss Dorrit.
-- Let him look round him (she said) and judge for himself what general intelligence was likely to reach the ears of a woman who had been shut up there while it was rife, devouring her own heart.
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