comfort是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 舒适, 安逸; 安慰, 慰问v. 安慰, 使舒适,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Vainly trying to comfort himself with these reflections, the prince reached the Ismailofsky barracks more dead than alive.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You have brought me neither comfort nor performance; and now you come seeing among Danaans, and saying that Apollo has plagued us because I would not take a ransom for this girl, the daughter of Chryses.
-- Bacchus himself plunged terror-stricken into the sea, and Thetis took him to her bosom to comfort him, for he was scared by the fury with which the man reviled him.
-- It would be better for me, should I lose you, to lie dead and buried, for I shall have nothing left to comfort me when you are gone, save only sorrow.
-- Gladden, then, the hearts of the Achaeans at your ships, and more especially those of your own followers and clansmen, while I, in the great city of King Priam, bring comfort to the Trojans and their women, who vie with one another in their prayers on my behalf.
-- I shall comfort these poor people if I bring your head and armour and place them in the hands of Panthous and noble Phrontis.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The morning breeze blew very pleasantly through the unglazed window, and that and the food contributed to the sense of animal comfort which I experienced.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Tis the six-and-twentieth edition, promul-gated at Boston, Anno Domini 1744; and is entitled, 'The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testaments; faithfully translated into English Metre, for the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints, in Public and Private, especially in New England'.'
-- In this manner they proceeded in uninterrupted silence, except when Heyward addressed some solitary word of comfort to the females, or David gave vent to the moanings of his spirit, in piteous exclamations, which he intended should express the humility of resignation.
-- As Heyward, however, no longer expected that rescue which time and distance now rendered so improbable, he regarded these little peculiari-ties with an eye devoid of interest, devoting himself entirely to the comfort and condolence of his feebler companions.
-- Go to Alice, and comfort her with our reviv-ing prospects.'
-- The dialogue ceased, while the hunter and his compan-ions busied themselves in preparations for the comfort and protection of those they guided.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He's been used to comfort and to having someone to look after him.
-- I do not suppose she had ever really cared for her husband, and what I had taken for love was no more than the feminine response to caresses and comfort which in the minds of most women passes for it.
-- He sacrificed his time and his comfort and his money for you.
-- Won't you be ashamed when you feel in your heart the desire for comfort and sympathy?
-- She strove to ensnare him with comfort and would not see that comfort meant nothing to him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What a comfort it was to the settlers to clothe themselves again in clean linen, which was doubtless rather rough, but they were not troubled about that!and then to go to sleep between sheets, which made the couches at Granite House into quite comfortable beds!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'If you are sorrowful, let me know why and be sorrowful too; if you waste away and are paler and weaker every day, let me be your nurse and try to comfort you.
-- Standing, however, being a tiresome attitude to a gentleman already fatigued with walking, and the dwarf being one of that kind of persons who usually make themselves at home, he soon cast his eyes upon a chair, into which he skipped with uncommon agility, and perching himself on the back with his feet upon the seat, was thus enabled to look on and listen with greater comfort to himself, besides gratifying at the same time that taste for doing something fantastic and monkey-like, which on all occasions had strong possession of him.
-- The room in which Kit sat himself down, in this condition, was an extremely poor and homely place, but with that air of comfort about it, nevertheless, which or the spot must be a wretched one indeed cleanliness and order can always impart in some degree.
-- She rocked herself upon a chair, wringing her hands and weeping bitterly, but Kit made no attempt to comfort her and remained quite bewildered.
-- The legal gentleman, whose melodious name was Brass, might have called it comfort also but for two drawbacks: one was, that he could by no exertion sit easy in his chair, the seat of which was very hard, angular, slippery, and sloping; the other, that tobacco-smoke always caused him great internal discomposure and annoyance.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The wine attracted her, not because of its taste, but because it enabled her to forget her past life, to comfort herself with ease, and the confidence of her own worth that it gave her.
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