convert是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 转变; 兑换; 使改变信仰,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "No, but phosphorescent insects, positive glow-worms, living diamonds, which the ladies of Buenos Ayres convert into magnificent ornaments."
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:
-- A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the doctrine of rein-carnation.
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:
-- The politic captain of the Canadas had deemed it wiser to submit to entertain a passive friend, than by any acts of ill-judged severity to convert him into an open enemy.
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:
-- I fell to jeering in the coarsest way at all such propaganda and efforts to convert me; Parasha came on to the scene again, and not she alone; in fact there was a tremendous to-do.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The table was upturned, and Goriot had doubtless in some way secured a silver plate and cup to the bar before knotting a thick rope round them; he was pulling at this rope with such enormous force that they were being crushed and twisted out of shape; to all appearance he meant to convert the richly wrought metal into ingots.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or de-378 Gulliver's Travelsstroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At first he thought the solution lay in electricity: convert the coal into electric power.
-- And to convert into oil was as yet too costly and too elaborate.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The only person who offered enough to make it worth her while to try juvenile literature was a worthy gentleman who felt it his mission to convert all the world to his particular belief.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That's no way to convert sinners, cook!"
-- "That lively cry upon this deadly calm might almost convert a better man. Where away?"
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Miss Bingley offered her the carriage, and she only wanted a little pressing to accept it, when Jane testified such concern in parting with her, that Miss Bingley was obliged to convert the offer of the chaise to an invitation to remain at Netherfield for the present.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Encouraged by this to a further examination of his opinions, she proceeded to question him on the subject of books; her favourite authors were brought forward and dwelt upon with so rapturous a delight, that any young man of five and twenty must have been insensible indeed, not to become an immediate convert to the excellence of such works, however disregarded before.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The clear proof of one overt deed was the cold breath needed to convert the lowering clouds of suspicion into a rain of wrath.
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