lofty是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 高耸的; 崇高的; 高傲的,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:
-- In came a fiddler with a music-book, and went up to the lofty desk, and made an orchestra of it, and tuned like fifty stomach-aches.
-- It was a remarkable quality of the Ghost (which Scrooge had observed at the baker's), that notwithstanding his gigantic size, he could accommodate himself to any place with ease; and that he stood beneath a low roof quite as gracefully and like a supernatural creature, as it was possible he could have done in any lofty hall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That, the lofty example of this immacu-late and unimpeachable witness for the Crown, to refer to whom however unworthily was an honour, had communi-cated itself to the prisoner's servant, and had engendered in him a holy determination to examine his master's table-drawers and pockets, and secrete his papers.
-- A small lofty room, with its window wide open, and the wooden jalousie-blinds closed, so that the dark night only showed in slight horizontal lines of black, alternating with their broad lines of stone colour.
-- Many a night he vaguely and unhappily wandered there, when wine had brought no transitory glad-ness to him; many a dreary daybreak revealed his solitary figure lingering there, and still lingering there when the first beams of the sun brought into strong relief, removed beau-ties of architecture in spires of churches and lofty buildings, as perhaps the quiet time brought some sense of better things, else forgotten and unattainable, into his mind.
-- There I see him, high up, behind the bars of a lofty iron cage, bloody and dusty as last night, looking through.
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:
-- You have genius; but clear-sighted, calm discretion does not take such lofty flights, and utter such high natural tones.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nodding with an air of lofty contempt to the two officers, he went up to Vronsky.
-- "Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these lofty ideals, love of culture, religion, they are only so many tools for getting on."
-- She could not understand how lofty and beyond her it all was, and she ought not to have dared to allude to it.
-- Chapter 9 The old neglected palazzo, with its lofty carved ceilings and frescoes on the walls, with its floors of mosaic, with its heavy yellow stuff curtains on the windows, with its vases on pedestals, and its open fireplaces, its carved doors and gloomy reception rooms, hung with pictures--this palazzo did much, by its very appearance after they had moved into it, to confirm in Vronsky the agreeable illusion that he was not so much a Russian country gentleman, a retired army officer, as an enlightened amateur and patron of the arts, himself a modest artist who had renounced the world, his connections, and his ambition for the sake of the woman he loved.
-- Although there was in these words a flavor of that sentimental emotion at her own lofty feelings, and that new mystical fervor which had lately gained ground in Petersburg, and which seemed to Alexey Alexandrovitch disproportionate, still it was pleasant to him to hear this now.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 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.
-- It is a picturesque expanse, framed in lofty crags in large strata, encrusted with white salt a superb sheet of water, which was formerly of larger extent than now, its shores having encroached with the lapse of time, and thus at once reduced its breadth and increased its depth.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- or "I bid thee a lofty greeting, old pediculosis."
-- Scanning them together (not haughtily, as the choosing and lofty male, but anxiously) he was more irritated than ever by Madeline.
-- Nautilus is distinguished by large houses with large lawns and by an astounding quantity of garages and lofty church spires.
-- By this time it was six o'clock of a fine wide August morning, and as he ceased his swift work, as taut nerves slackened, he looked out of his lofty window and was conscious of the world below: bright roofs, jubilant towers, and a high-decked Sound steamer swaggering up the glossy river.
-- He mounted the noisy slate stairway to the lofty world of the roof.
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:
-- Luzhin smiled with lofty sarcasm.
-- Zametov will make a scandal in the French style in a house of bad reputa-tion, over a glass of champagne 芒聙娄 that's all your Zametov is good for!While I'm perhaps, so to speak, burning with devotion and lofty feelings, and besides I have rank, conse-quence, a post!I am married and have children, I fulfil the duties of a man and a citizen, but who is he, may I ask?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 332CHAPTER XXIVMy First DissipationIT was a wonderfully fine thing to have that lofty castle to myself,and to feel, when I shut my outer door, like Robinson Crusoe,when he had got into his fortification, and pulled his ladder upafter him.
-- When I allowedhim to go on a little before, on account of the narrowness of theway, I observed that he carried his head with a lofty air that wasparticularly unpromising; and my mind misgave me that he hadfound out about my darling Dora.
-- But when she sat down onthe seat, she was a handsome lady still; and well I knew the brighteye with its lofty look, that had been a light in my very dreams atschool.
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