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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Someone, then, cut out the message with a pair of short-bladed scissors, pasted it with paste ' 'Gum,' said Holmes.
-- 'But what you are really looking for is the centre page of the Times with some holes cut in it with scissors.
-- The second: 'Visited twenty-three hotels as directed, but sorry, to re-port unable to trace cut sheet of Times. CARTWRIGHT.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Give you my word, prince, if I hadn't cut and run then, when I did, he'd have murdered me like a dog.'
-- He says my brother cut off the gold tassels from my father's coffin, at night because they're worth a lot ofmoney!'
-- 'No, they cut off people's heads in France.'
-- I shall never leave you, mother; any other man would cut and run from such a sister as this.
-- 'Of course I wrote an apology, and called, but they would not receive either me or my apology, and the Epanchins cut me, too!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Son of Atreus,' said he, 'I deem that we should now turn roving home if we would escape destruction, for we are be-ing cut down by war and pestilence at once.
-- They have not raid-ed my cattle nor my horses, nor cut down my harvests on the rich plains of Phthia; for between me and them there is a great space, both mountain and sounding sea.
-- They cut out the thigh-bones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them, and then Chryses laid them on the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with five-pronged spits in their hands.
-- When the thigh-bones were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon the spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off: then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied.
-- She sat herself down before him, and with her left hand seized his knees, while with her right she caught him under the chin, and besought him, saying: 'Father Jove, if I ever did you service in word or deed among the immortals, hear my prayer, and do honour to my son, whose life is to be cut short so early.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When Mrs. Hall went to clear away the stranger's lunch, her idea that his mouth must also have been cut or disfigured in the accident she supposed him to have suffered, was confirmed, for he was smoking a pipe, and all the time that she was in the room he never loosened the silk muffler he had wrapped round the lower part of his face to put the mouthpiece to his lips.
-- There was my sister's son, Tom, jest cut his arm with a scythe, tumbled on it in the 'ayfield, and, bless me!he was three months tied up sir.
-- "Pardon my intrusion," said Cuss, and then the door closed and cut Mrs. Hall off from the rest of the conversation.
-- "It's all very well for you to laugh, but I tell you I was so startled, I hit his cuff hard, and turned around, and cut out of the room I left him " Cuss stopped.
-- He it must have been who cut the telegraph wire to Adderdean just beyond Higgins' cottage on the Adderdean road.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'If he comes this end of the ship again I'll cut his insides out, I tell you.
-- Cut out his blasted insides!Who are you, to tell me what I'm to do?
-- I found some of it hard to endure, though I am a mild-tem-pered man; but, certainly, when I told the captain to 'shut up' I had forgotten that I was merely a bit of human flotsam, cut off from my resources and with my fare unpaid; a mere casual dependant on the bounty, or speculative enterprise, of the ship.
-- He spoke like a man who had loved his life there, and had been suddenly and irrevocably cut off from it.
-- In the end, they swung me into her by a rope (for they had no stern ladder), and then they cut me adrift.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The valley opened out into a great plain dotted over with rocks and cut up by ra-vines.
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