whole是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 全部a. 全体的; 全部的; 完整的; 无缺的,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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She put the glass in the paper, and the whole again into its place.
-- The image as a whole was that of a small Noah's Ark on a small Ararat, allowing the traditionary outlines and general form of the Ark which are followed by toy-makers and by these means are established in men's imaginations among their firmest, because earliest impressions to pass as an approximate pattern.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This position is sufficient to account for the silence prevalent in the streets shut in between the dome of the Pantheon and the dome of the Val-de-Grace, two conspicuous public buildings which give a yellowish tone to the landscape and darken the whole district that lies beneath the shadow of their leaden-hued cupolas.
-- In his figure, manner, and his whole bearing it was easy to see that he had either come of a noble family, or that, from his earliest childhood, he had been gently bred.
-- She would marry again, sell her boarding-house, give her hand to this fine flower of citizenship, become a lady of consequence in the quarter, and ask for subscriptions for charitable purposes; she would make little Sunday excursions to Choisy, Soissy, Gentilly; she would have a box at the theatre when she liked, instead of waiting for the author's tickets that one of her boarders sometimes gave her, in July; the whole Eldorado of a little Parisian household rose up before Mme.
-- His father and mother, his two brothers and two sisters, with an aged aunt, whose whole fortune consisted in annuities, lived on the little estate of Rastignac.
-- The whole property brought in about three thousand francs; and though the amount varied with the season (as must always be the case in a vine-growing district), they were obliged to spare an unvarying twelve hundred francs out of their income for him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You may remember that a history of all the voyages made for purposes of discovery composed the whole of our good Uncle Thomas' library.
-- He had already bought a farm with his money, on which he had designed to pass the remainder of his life; but he be-stowed the whole on his rival, together with the remains of his prize-money to purchase stock, and then himself solic-ited the young woman's father to consent to her marriage with her lover.
-- I never saw a more interesting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness, but there are moments when, if anyone performs an act of kindness towards him or does him the most trifling service, his whole counte-16 Frankensteinnance is lighted up, as it were, with a beam of benevolence and sweetness that I never saw equalled.
-- When I re-turned home my first care was to procure the whole works of this author, and afterwards of Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus.
-- This whole winter, instead of being spent in study, as you promised yourself, has been consumed in my sick room.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Yankees may be scared of us, but after theway General Beauregard shelled them out of Fort Sumter day before yesterday, they'll have to fight or stand brandedas cowards before the whole world.
-- And here she had practically promised them the whole of tomorrow seats by her at the barbecue, all thewaltzes (and they'd see to it that the dances were all waltzes!)
-- And as for changing a Wilkes God's nightgown, daughter!The whole family is that way, and they'vealways been that way.
-- Plantations don't amount to anything when " She was going to say "when you haven't the man you want," but Gerald, incensed by the cavalier way in whichshe treated his proffered gift, the thing which, next to Ellen, he loved best in the whole world uttered a roar.
-- There was a steely quality under herstately gentleness that awed the whole household, Gerald as well as the girls, though he would have died rather thanadmit it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But he punished the Amens tremendously; and when he gave out the psalm,--always giving the whole verse,--he looked all round the congregation first, as much as to say, "You have heard my friend overhead; oblige me with your opinion of this style!"
-- It was much upon my mind (particularly when I first saw him looking about for his file) that I ought to tell Joe the whole truth.
-- He must have had a tiresome journey of it, for Mr. Wopsle, being knocked up, was in such a very bad temper that if the Church had been thrown open, he would probably have excommunicated the whole expedition, beginning with Joe and myself.
-- I leaned over Joe, and, with the aid of my forefinger read him the whole letter.
-- A figure all in yellow white, with but one shoe to the feet; and it hung so, that I could see that the faded trimmings of the dress were like earthy paper, and that the face was Miss Havisham's, with a movement going over the whole countenance as if she were trying to call to me.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Everyone agreed that it was worth more than all the wealth of the kingdom: but the king said, 'One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.'
-- In the morning came the fox again and met him as he was beginning his journey, and said, 'Go straight forward, till you come to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers fast asleep and snoring: take no notice of them, but go into the castle and pass on and on till you come to a room, where the gold-en bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shab-by cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.'
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