our是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为pron. 我们的,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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was impossible to keep up our social pretences any longer.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "This evening, at ten o'clock," replied Captain Harding; "and Heaven grant that the storm does not abate before our departure.
-- Our readers will recollect what befell these five daring individuals who set out on their hazardous expedition in the balloon on the 20th of March.
-- "It is a promontory," said the sailor; "we must retrace our steps, holding towards the right, and we shall thus gain the mainland."
-- "The silence of our friend proves nothing," said the reporter.
-- Our friends will want something when they come back.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A part of this door was of glass unprotected by any shutter, which I did not observe at first, for all was very dark and silent within, and I was anxious (as indeed the child was also) for an answer to our summons.
-- The door being opened, the child addressed him as grandfather, and told him the little story of our companionship.
-- It checks their confidence and simplicity two of the best qualities that Heaven gives them and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.'
-- At this juncture, the subject of our conversation again returned, and the old man motioning to me to approach the table, broke off, and said no more.
-- We had scarcely begun our repast when there was a knock at the door by which I had entered, and Nell bursting into a hearty laugh, which I was rejoiced to hear, for it was childlike and full of hilarity, said it was no doubt dear old Kit coming back at last.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "My name is Baklashoff, merchant of the second guild," he introduced himself, extending his soft, broad hand; "we must do our duty.
-- "Now repeat after me: 'I promise and swear by the Almighty God, His Holy Gospel, and by the life-giving cross of our Lord, that in the case'"--he continued, resting after each phrase.
-- "It is impossible, because our business is to attend the guests----" "You will speak afterwards.
-- As soon as I was asleep our girl, Bertha, came and woke me.
-- "Here is before you, gentlemen of the jury, a crime characteristic, if I may so express myself, of the end of our century, bearing, as it were, all the specific features of the first symptoms of decomposition, to which those elements of our society, which are exposed, as it were, to the more scorching rays of that process, are subject."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The fire burnt brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses.
-- Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere, when thought runs gracefully free of the trammels of precision.
-- There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives."
-- There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
-- That Space, as our mathematicians have it, is spoken of as having three dimensions, which one may call Length, Breadth, and Thickness, and is always definable by reference to three planes, each at right angles to the others.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- First, there's the room you can see through the glass that's just the same as our drawing room, only the things go the other way.
-- Oh!I do so wish I could see that bit!I want so much to know whether they've a fire in the winter: you never can tell, you know, unless our fire smokes, and then smoke comes up in that room too but that may be only pretence, just to make it look as if they had a fire.
-- Well then, the books are something like our books, only the words go the wrong way; I know that, because I've held up one of our books to the glass, and then they hold up one in the other room.
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