cream是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 乳脂, (鲜) 奶油; 奶油色,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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the left corner of the ballroom she saw the cream of society gathered together.
-- "Stremov and Liza Merkalova, why, they're the cream of the cream of society.
-- They want that dirty ice cream, that they do know for certain," she thought, looking at two boys stopping an ice cream seller, who took a barrel off his head and began wiping his perspiring face with a towel.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He looked down on a startling roadster, all streamlines and cream paint, with enormous headlights.
-- And to various billboard-advertising beauty companies they sold millions of bottles of a complexion- cream guaranteed to turn a Canadian Indian guide as lily-fair as the angels.
-- In excessive quantities it is almost as bad as coffee or even ice cream soda.
-- Of all these forces Martin was more or less aware, and behind them he fancied that doubtful business men, sellers of impure ice- cream and milk, owners of unsanitary shops and dirty tenements, men who had always hated Pickerbaugh but who had feared to attack him because of his popularity, were gathering to destroy the entire Department of Public Health.
-- I fuss over the flat--hang it, wish I'd had the kitchen repainted while we're away, it's a NICE little kitchen--and I make believe read my French books, and go out for a walk, and look in the windows, and eat an ice cream soda, and the day slides by.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They made me coffee before I went to work and boiled cream for me!They began to get real cream for me, do you hear that?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Traddles, whom I have taken up by appointment at theturnpike, presents a dazzling combination of cream colour andlight blue; and both he and Mr. Dick have a general effect aboutthem of being all gloves.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then up comes Maryann; throws the loose locks into the middle of the fleece, rolls it up, and carries it into the background as three-and-a-half pounds of unadulterated warmth for the winter enjoyment of persons unknown and far away, who will, however, never experience the superlative comfort derivable from the wool as it here exists, new and pure before the unctuousness of its nature whilst in a living state has dried, stiffened, and been washed out rendering it just now as superior to anything woollen as cream is superior to milk-and-water.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was Sylvie's custom to take the cream off the milk destined for the boarders' breakfast for her own, and to boil the remainder for some time, so that madame should not discover this illegal exaction.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'm not forgetting the time I ate a whole tray and went to the Calverts' and they had ice cream outof ice they'd brought all the way from Savannah, and I couldn't eat but a spoonful.
-- Some of them were on crutches and how proud were the girls whosolicitously slowed their steps to their escorts' hopping pace!There was one gaudy splash of color among the uniformsthat put the girls' bright finery to shame and stood out in the crowd like a tropical bird a Louisiana Zouave, withbaggy blue and white striped pants, cream gaiters and tight little red jacket, a dark, grinning little monkey of a man,with his arm in a black silk sling.
-- Without sugar or cream it was bitter asgall, for the sorghum used for "long sweetening" did little to improve the taste.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The dwarf was sound-ly whipt, and as a farther punishment, forced to drink up the bowl of cream into which he had thrown me: neither was he ever restored to favour; for soon after the queen be-stowed him on a lady of high quality, so that I saw him no more, to my very great satisfaction; for I could not tell to what extremities such a malicious urchin might have car-ried his resentment.
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:
-- There she heard the loudspeak-er begin to bellow, in an idiotically velveteen-genteel sort of voice, something about a series of street-cries, the very cream of genteel affectation imitating old criers.
-- Sugar's in th' cupboard, an' there's a little cream jug.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With the aid of its content, a newspaper, and some skimming of the cream of the pie-stock, Flora got through the remainder of the day in perfect good humour; though occasionally embarrassed by the consequences of an idle rumour which circulated among the credulous infants of the neighbourhood, to the effect that an old lady had sold herself to the pie-shop to be made up, and was then sitting in the pie-shop parlour, declining to complete her contract.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I shall take the cream and the muffings,' added Amy, he-roically giving up the article she most liked.
-- Poor dear, just wait till I make my fortune, and you shall revel in carriages and ice cream and high-heeled slippers, and po-sies, and red-headed boys to dance with.'
-- Jo's one strong point was the fruit, for she had sugared it well, and had a pitcher of rich cream to eat with it.
-- 'Salt instead of sugar, and the cream is sour,' replied Meg with a tragic gesture.
-- Laurie took Amy to drive, which was a deed of charity, for the sour cream seemed to have had a bad effect upon her temper.
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