make是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. (产品) 来源, 制法vt. 制造, 做成, 准备,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- People are so kind; they seem really to think I do them a favour in letting them make me rich, and giving me good bargains.'
-- said the dog, 'my master was going to knock me on the head, because I am old and weak, and can no longer make myself useful to him in hunting; so I ran away; but what can I do to earn my live-lihood?'
-- 'Oh,' said the ass, 'by all means go with us to the great city; you are a good night singer, and may make your fortune as a musician.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I find likewise that the writers of those bundles are not agreed among them-selves; for some of them will not allow me to be the author of my own travels; and others make me author of books to which I am wholly a stranger.
-- I have other complaints to make upon this vexatious oc-casion; but I forbear troubling myself or you any further.
-- However, in my opinion, it was extremely prudent, as well as generous: for, supposing these people had endeavoured to kill me with 20 Gulliver's Travelstheir spears and arrows, while I was asleep, I should cer-tainly have awaked with the first sense of smart, which might so far have roused my rage and strength, as to have enabled me to break the strings wherewith I was tied; af-ter which, as they were not able to make resistance, so they could expect no mercy.
-- It was likewise ordered, that three hundred tailors should make 30 Gulliver's Travelsme a suit of clothes, after the fashion of the country; that six of his majesty's greatest scholars should be employed to instruct me in their language; and lastly, that the emper-or's horses, and those of the nobility and troops of guards, should be frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom themselves to me.
-- In the left there was a sort of engine, from the back of which were extended twenty long poles, resembling the pallisa-dos before your majesty's court: wherewith we conjecture the man- mountain combs his head; for we did not always trouble him with questions, because we found it a great dif-ficulty to make him understand us.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him.
-- I declare you're enough to make one regret ever having had a family at all.
-- 'Bounderby,' said Mr. Gradgrind, drawing a chair to the fireside, 'you are always so interested in my young people particularly in Louisa that I make no apology for saying to you, I am very much vexed by this discovery.
-- Nor was it merely the stranger who noticed this, because there was a native organization in Coketown itself, whose members were to be heard of in the House of Commons every session, indignantly petitioning for acts of parliament that should make these people religious by main force.
-- 'I have not,' retorted Mr. Childers, after surveying him from head to foot, 'the honour of knowing you, but if you mean that you can make more money of your time than I can of mine, I should judge from your appearance, that you are about right.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To prove the excellent Hardwigg's impatience, I solemnly declare that when the flowers in the drawing-room pots began to grow, he rose every morning at four o'clock to make them grow quicker by pulling the leaves!
-- Now, begin and make no mistakes."
-- I believe the cryptograph to have a profound meaning--which I must make out."
-- Did not Galileo make a secret of his discoveries in connection with Saturn?
-- My uncle has determined to fast and make me fast until he makes out this abominable inscription," I replied.
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:
-- It's a sort of property of nature in a man to make money.
-- It's a sort of permanent acci-dent of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on; up to a point, I suppose.'
-- There's nothing really in my plays to make them popular.
-- And so with most of the matters of ordinary life...how you make your money, or whether you love your wife, or if you have 'affairs'.
-- We're free to talk to anybody; so why shouldn't we be free to make love to any woman who inclines us that way?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was no wind to make a ripple on the foul water within the harbour, or on the beautiful sea without.
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