bad是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 坏的; 低劣的; 不舒服的; 腐败的; 严重的,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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So, be-tween the old sinner and the young one the girl has had a pretty bad time.'
-- 'Look at Sir Charles's death!That was bad enough, for all that the coroner said.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Do you know, though,' cried the prince warmly, 'you made that remark now, and everyone says the same thing, and the machine is designed with the purpose of avoiding pain, this guillotine I mean; but a thought came into my head then: what if it be a bad plan after all?
-- I don't know how it may be here, though; they say the climate may be bad for me. '
-- 'Well, it's too bad of you,' said mamma.
-- I am often called an idiot, and at one time I certainly was so ill that I was nearly as bad as an idiot; but I am not an idiot now.
-- He even produced a bad impression on some people, which grieved him sorely; but he did not change his ways for all that.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And now Iris, fleet as the wind, was sent by Jove to tell the bad news among the Trojans.
-- As when the south wind spreads a curtain of mist upon the mountain tops, bad for shepherds but better than night for thieves, and a man can see no further than he can throw a stone, even so rose the dust from under their feet as they made all speed over the plain.
-- I will stir up fierce hatred between Trojans and Achaeans, and you shall come to a bad end.'
-- They were frightened and all of them of held their peace, for he had spoken masterfully; but at last Minerva answered, 'Father, son of Saturn, king of kings, we all know that your might is not to be gainsaid, but we are also sorry for the Danaan warriors, who are perishing and coming to a bad end.
-- See how they perish and come to a bad end before the onset of but a single man.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "It's bad enough to let these floundering yokels explode my little secret, without your cutting off with my books.
-- A box of very thin common glass would be hard to see in a bad light, because it would absorb hardly any light and refract and reflect very little.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I'm damned,' said he, 'if this place is not as bad as Gower Street, with its cats.'
-- But it's not so bad as you feel, man.
-- bad Latin, schoolboy Latin; but try and understand.
-- A series of propositions called the Law (I bad already heard them recited) battled in their minds with the deep-seated, ever-rebellious cravings of their animal natures.
-- Sixteen years being bullied by nurses and schoolmasters at their own sweet will; five in London grinding hard at med-icine, bad food, shabby lodgings, shabby clothes, shabby vice, a blunder, I didn't know any better, and hustled off to this beastly island.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mowgli was sore and angry as well as hungry, and he roamed through the empty city giving the Strangers' Hunting Call from time to time, but no one answered him, and Mowgli felt that he had reached a very bad place in-deed.
-- When Mowgli left the wolf's cave after the fight with the Pack at the Council Rock, he went down to the plowed lands where the villag-ers lived, but he would not stop there because it was too near to the jungle, and he knew that he had made at least one bad enemy at the Council.
-- But they answered the call from habit; and some of them were lame from the traps they had fallen into, and some limped from shot wounds, and some were mangy from eat-ing bad food, and many were missing.
-- And she sang the low, crooning seal song that all the mother seals sing to their babies: You mustn't swim till you're six weeks old, Or your head will be sunk by your heels; And summer gales and Killer Whales Are bad for baby seals.
-- Are bad for baby seals, dear rat, As bad as bad can be; But splash and grow strong, And you can't be wrong.
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