stool是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 凳子; (pl. ) 大便,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His active little crutch was heard upon the floor, and back came Tiny Tim before another word was spoken, es-corted by his brother and sister to his stool before the fire; and while Bob, turning up his cuffs as if, poor fellow, they were capable of being made more shabby compounded some hot mixture in a jug with gin and lemons, and stirred it round and round and put it on the hob to simmer; Master Peter, and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high proces-sion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 217XIV The Honest Tradesman o the eyes of Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher, sitting on his stool Tin Fleet-street with his grisly urchin beside him, a vast number and variety of objects in movement were every day presented.
-- Time was, when a poet sat upon a stool in a public place, and mused in the sight of men.
-- Mr. Cruncher, sitting on a stool in a public place, but not being a poet, mused as little as possible, and looked about him.
-- Young Jerry, walking with the stool under his arm at his father's side along sunny and crowded Fleet-street, was a very different Young Jerry from him of the previous night, running home through darkness and solitude from his grim pursuer.
-- 'Father,' said Young Jerry, as they walked along: taking care to keep at arm's length and to have the stool well be-tween them: 'what's a Resurrection-Man?'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I only hope he is not unwell,' said the house-dog; when, pop!he made a jump all on one side into the lap of the Prin-cess, who was sitting on a little golden stool close by.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thegroundwork of that stool and Peggotty's complexion appeared tome to be one and the same thing.
-- The stool was smooth, andPeggotty was rough, but that made no difference.
-- As I was getting on the stool opposite, to talk to him moreconveniently, I observed that he had not such a thing as a smileabout him, and that he could only widen his mouth and make twohard creases down his-cheeks, one on each side, to stand for one.
-- My stool was such a tower ofobservation, that as I watched him reading on again, after thisrapturous exclamation, and following up the lines with hisforefinger, I observed that his nostrils, which were thin andpointed, with sharp dints in them, had a singular and mostuncomfortable way of expanding and contracting themselves; that 223they seemed to twinkle instead of his eyes, which hardly evertwinkled at all.
-- He writhed himself quite off his stool inthe excitement of his feelings, and, being off, began to makearrangements for going home.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Since then,Ashley had sat on a stool at Melanie's feet, apart from the other guests, and talked quietly with her, smiling the slowdrowsy smile that Scarlett loved.
-- Scarlett sat quietly on the stool fanning herself, not daring to look up, wishing Captain Butler back on the deck ofhis ship where he belonged.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- While he was gone, I sat down on my usual stool and looked vacantly at my sister, feeling pretty sure that the man would not be there.
-- The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind, that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him,--as it were, to operate upon,--and he would drag me up from my stool (usually by the collar) where I was quiet in a corner, and, putting me before the fire as if I were going to be cooked, would begin by saying, "Now, Mum, here is this boy!Here is this boy which you brought up by hand.
-- I who have sat on this same hearth on the little stool that is even now beside you there, learning your lessons and looking up into your face, when your face was strange and frightened me!"
-- There, smoking his pipe in the old place by the kitchen firelight, as hale and as strong as ever, though a little gray, sat Joe; and there, fenced into the corner with Joe's leg, and sitting on my own little stool looking at the fire, was--I again!
-- "We giv' him the name of Pip for your sake, dear old chap," said Joe, delighted, when I took another stool by the child's side (but I did not rumple his hair), "and we hoped he might grow a little bit like you, and we think he do."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She took nothing with her but a little ring which her fa-ther and mother had given her, a loaf of bread in case she should be hungry, a little pitcher of water in case she should be thirsty, and a little stool to rest upon when she should be weary.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I then stept over the build-ing very conveniently from one stool to the other, and drew up the first after me with a hooked stick.
-- My little nurse stood on a low stool close to the table, to take care of me, and direct what I should do.
-- Glumdalclitch stood on a stool on the floor near my table, to assist and take care of me.
-- Her majesty had taken a marrow-bone upon her plate, and, after knocking out the marrow, placed the bone again in the dish erect, as it stood before; the dwarf, watching his opportunity, while 131Glumdalclitch was gone to the side-board, mounted the stool that she stood on to take care of me at meals, took me up in both hands, and squeezing my legs together, wedged them into the marrow bone above my waist, where I stuck for some time, and made a very ridiculous figure.
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