alone是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 单独的, 孤独的ad. 单独地, 独自地; 仅仅,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:
-- Other figures now appeared behind this shouting man and among the smoke, and Gabriel found that, far from being alone he was in a great company whose shadows danced merrily up and down, timed by the jigging of the flames, and not at all by their owners' movements.
-- This was recognized by all as the conclusion of some gloomy speech which had been expressed in thought alone during the shake of the head; Henery meanwhile retained several marks of despair upon his face, to imply that they would be required for use again directly he should go on speaking.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Vauquer alone can breathe that tainted air without being disheartened by it.
-- He meant, like all great souls, that his success should be owing entirely to his merits; but his was pre-eminently a southern temperament, the execution of his plans was sure to be marred by the vertigo that seizes on youth when youth sees itself alone in a wide sea, uncertain how to spend its energies, whither to steer its course, how to adapt its sails to the winds.
-- Eugene was so deeply interested that he forgot that he was not alone till he suddenly heard the Countess' voice.
-- "Imagine, too, that I had just made some progress with the Comte de Restaud; for I should tell you, madame," he went on, turning to the Duchess with a mixture of humility and malice in his manner, "that as yet I am only a poor devil of a student, very much alone in the world, and very poor----" "You should not tell us that, M. de Rastignac.
-- Vautrin alone spoke.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Soon after, when he was alone with me, he said, 'I have, doubtless, excited your curiosity, as well as that of these good people; but you are too considerate to make inquiries.'
-- But when he entered, misery and despair alone welcomed him.
-- I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of cau-sation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life, until from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me a light so brilliant and wondrous, 51yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immen-sity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius who had directed their in-quiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.
-- One secret which I alone possessed was the hope to which I had dedicated my-54 Frankensteinself; and the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places.
-- Sometimes I grew alarmed at the wreck I perceived that I had become; the energy of my purpose alone sustained me: my labours would soon end, and I believed that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease; and I promised myself both of these when my creation should be complete.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And he stood alone in his interest in books and music andhis fondness for writing poetry.
-- "Then it's little enough youare knowing of any man living, let alone Ashley.
-- Now they were successfulmerchants in Savannah, "though the dear God alone knows where that may be," as their mother always interpolatedwhen mentioning the two oldest of her male brood, and it was to them that young Gerald was sent.
-- They were a close-mouthed and stiff-necked family, who kept strictly to themselves and intermarried with theirCarolina relatives, and Gerald was not alone in disliking them, for the County people were neighborly and sociable andnone too tolerant of anyone lacking in those same qualities.
-- Then somehow she would maneuver to get a few minutes alone with him, away from the crowd.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When I ran home from the churchyard, the forge was shut up, and Joe was sitting alone in the kitchen.
-- "When a man's alone on these flats, with a light head and a light stomach, perishing of cold and want, he hears nothin' all night, but guns firing, and voices calling.
-- I took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard to look at my coarse hands and my common boots.
-- When we stood in the daylight alone again, Joe backed up against a wall, and said to me, "Astonishing!"
-- My sister was never left alone now; but Joe more than readily undertook the care of her on that Sunday afternoon, and Biddy and I went out together.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 34 Grimms' Fairy Tales It happened that, on the very day she was fifteen years old, the king and queen were not at home, and she was left alone in the palace.
-- Thus Chanticleer was left alone with his dead Partlet; and having dug a grave for her, he laid her in it, and made a little hillock over her.
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