rid是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. (of) 使摆脱, 使去掉,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:
-- 'Would it not be well in the first place to get rid of this Barrymore couple?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Don't flatter yourself, my boy,' said he; 'she's not for such as you; she's a princess, she is, and her name is Nastasia Philipovna Barashkoff, and she lives with Totski, who wishes to get rid of her because he's growing rather old fiftyfive or so and wants to marry a certain beauty, the loveliest woman in all Petersburg.'
-- For a man of Totski's wealth and standing, it would, of course, have been the simplest possible matter to take steps which would rid him at once from all annoyance; while it was obviously impossible for Nastasia Philipovna to harm him in any way, either legally or by stirring up a scandal, for, in case of the latter danger, he could so easily remove her to a sphere of safety.
-- I am surprised not to see the porter, but .... it is a holiday ... and the man has gone off ... Drunken fool!Why have they not got rid of him?
-- I went in and asked for a bottle of Lafite, and drank it up; I wanted to be rid of the money.
-- But the more I thought of it, the more I felt the weight of it upon my mind; and I never got quite rid of the impression until I put a couple of old women into an alms-house and kept them there at my own expense.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lydia's intention of walking to Meryton was not forgot-ten; every sister except Mary agreed to go with her; and Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him, and have his library to himself; for thither Mr. Collins had followed him after breakfast; and there he would continue, nominally engaged with one of the largest folios in the collection, but really talking to Mr. Bennet, with little cessation, of his house and garden at Hunsford.
-- She had got rid of two of the secrets which had weighed on her for a fortnight, and was certain of a will-ing listener in Jane, whenever she might wish to talk again of either.
-- They were now almost at the door of the house, for she had walked fast to get rid of him; and unwilling, for her sister's sake, to provoke him, she only said in reply, with a good-humoured smile: 'Come, Mr. Wickham, we are brother and sister, you know.
-- Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daugh-ters.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We had not, however, rid here so long but we should have tided it up the river, but that the wind blew too fresh, and after we had lain four or five days, blew very hard.
-- We worked on; but the water increasing in the hold, it was apparent that the ship would founder; and though the storm began to abate a little, yet it was not possible she could swim till we might run into any port; so the master continued firing guns for help; and a light ship, who had rid it out just ahead of us, ventured a boat out to help us.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- An annuity is a very serious business; it comes over and over every year, and there is no getting rid of it.
-- Charlotte laughed heartily to think that her husband could not get rid of her; and exultingly said, she did not care how cross he was to her, as they must live together.
-- And how he had been so worried by what passed, that as soon as he had went away from his mother's house, he had got upon his horse, and rid into the country, some where or other; and how he had stayed about at an inn all Thursday and Friday, on purpose to get the better of it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Once these things were in her hand, on her person, she might dream of giving them up; the method by which they came might intrude itself so forcibly that she would ache to be rid of the thought of it, but she would not give them up.
-- Oh, yes, he could!He could get rid of his wife.
-- The paper was so straight in his hands, however, and the items he had been reading so directly before him, that he rid himself of the doze idea.
-- I can get rid of him.
-- It must be that Carrie had got rid of him--as well she ought, he thought.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I got rid of the signs of my work, and dropped the blanket and hid my saw, and pretty soon pap come in.
-- I see how maybe I could get me and Jim rid of the frauds; get them jailed here, and then leave.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If I could only as easily get rid of my hunger!"
-- Instead of listening to his good advice, Pinocchio turned to him and said as roughly as he knew how: "Keep quiet, ugly Gab!It would be better for you to chew a few cough drops to get rid of that cold you have.
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