cut是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 切, 割, 削; 削减, 删节n. 切口, 伤口,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:
-- And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.
-- Top couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking.
-- And when old Fezziwig and Mrs Fezziwig had gone all through the 42 Sons and Loversdance; advance and retire, both hands to your partner, bow and curtsey, corkscrew, thread-the-needle, and back again to your place; Fezziwig cut cut so deftly, that he appeared to wink with his legs, and came upon his feet again without a stagger.
-- There might have been twenty people there, young and old, but they all played, and so did Scrooge, for, wholly for-getting the interest he had in what was going on, that his voice made no sound in their ears, he sometimes came out with his guess quite loud, and very often guessed quite right, too; for the sharpest needle, best Whitechapel, warranted not to cut in the eye, was not sharper than Scrooge; blunt as he took it in his head to be.
-- But if he had cut 104 Sons and Loversthe end of his nose off, he would have put a piece of sticking-plaster over it, and been quite satisfied.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achieve-ments as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, be-cause he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
-- The emphatic horse, cut short by the whip in a most decided negative, made a decided scramble for it, and the three other horses followed suit.
-- Others, men and women, dipped in the puddles with little mugs of mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from women's heads, which were squeezed dry into infants' mouths; others made small mudembankments, to stem the wine as it ran; others, directed by lookers-on up at high 39windows, darted here and there, to cut off little streams of wine that started away in new directions; others devoted themselves to the sodden and lee-dyed pieces of the cask, licking, and even champing the moister wine-rotted frag-ments with eager relish.
-- His stock consisted of a wooden stool, made out of a broken-backed chair cut down, which stool, young Jerry, walking at his father's side, carried every morning to beneath the bank-ing-house window that was nearest Temple Bar: where, with the addition of the first handful of straw that could be gleaned from any passing vehicle to keep the cold and wet from the odd-job-man's feet, it formed the encampment for the day.
-- returned the man, with a relish; 'he'll be drawn on a hurdle to be half hanged, and then he'll be taken down and sliced before his own face, and then his inside will be taken out and burnt while he looks on, and then his head will be chopped off, and he'll be cut into quarters.
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:
-- They pretended to roll the cloth off the looms; cut the air with their scissors; and sewed with needles without any thread in them.
-- One might have thought at first they were servants come to accompany their mis-tresses home; but on looking nearer, one soon saw they could scarcely be mere servants; their forms were too noble for that, their skin too fine, the cut of their dress too strik-ing.
-- When Christmas came, quite young trees were cut down: trees which often were not even as large or of the same age as this Fir Tree, who could never rest, but always wanted to be off.
-- and towards Christmas he was one of the first that was cut down.
-- On one branch there hung little nets cut out of colored paper, and each net was filled with sugarplums; and among the other boughs gilded apples and walnuts were suspended, looking as though they had grown there, and little blue and white tapers were placed among the leaves.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- he said, scanning his new suit, obviously cut by a French tailor.
-- So we cut our nails; sometimes we turn up our sleeves.
-- "They say he was cut in two pieces."
-- For me to live with him now would be torture, just because I love my past love for him..." And sobs cut short her words.
-- "No," Dolly was beginning, but Anna cut her short, kissing her hand once more.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A flunkey handed him an uncut Times, which he proceeded to cut with a skill which betrayed familiarity with this delicate operation.
-- There Passepartout beheld beautiful fir and cedar groves, sacred gates of a singular architecture, bridges half hid in the midst of bamboos and reeds, temples shaded by immense cedar-trees, holy retreats where were sheltered Buddhist priests and sectaries of Confucius, and interminable streets, where a perfect harvest of rose-tinted and red-cheeked children, who looked as if they had been cut out of Japanese screens, and who were playing in the midst of short-legged poodles and yellowish cats, might have been gathered.
-- Within an hour the Frenchman had cut off his nose and parted with his wings, and retained nothing about him which recalled the sectary of the god Tingou.
-- The lofty tower of its City Hall overlooked the whole panorama of the streets and avenues, which cut each other at right-angles, and in the midst of which appeared pleasant, verdant squares, while beyond appeared the Chinese quarter, seemingly imported from the Celestial Empire in a toy-box.
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