choice是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 选择(机会) , 抉择, 选择项; 入选者a. 精选的,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:
-- I amused myself by thinking that in his choice of books he showed pleasantly the irreconcilable sides of his fantastic nature.
-- For choice he sat on a kitchen chair without arms.
-- "My choice is made," she said, in a dull voice.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The same peculiarity marked the tools and utensils; all were new, which proved that the articles had not been taken by chance and thrown into the chest, but, on the contrary, that the choice of things had been well considered and arranged with care.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To this Ladies' Seminary, then, Richard Swiveller hied, with designs obnoxious to the peace of the fair Sophia, who, arrayed in virgin white, embellished by no ornament but one blushing rose, received him on his arrival, in the midst of very elegant not to say brilliant preparations; such as the embellishment of the room with the little flower-pots which always stood on the window-sill outside, save in windy weather when they blew into the area; the choice attire of the day-scholars who were allowed to grace the festival; the unwonted curls of Miss Jane Wackles who had kept her head during the whole of the preceding day screwed up tight in a yellow play-bill; and the solemn gentility and stately bearing of the old lady and her eldest daughter, which struck Mr Swiveller as being uncommon but made no further impression upon him.
-- CHAPTER 23Mr Richard Swiveller wending homeward from the Wilderness (for such was the appropriate name of Quilp's choice retreat), after a sinuous and corkscrew fashion, with many checks and stumbles; after stopping suddenly and staring about him, then as suddenly running forward for a few paces, and as suddenly halting again and shaking his head; doing everything with a jerk and nothing by premeditation; Mr Richard Swiveller wending his way homeward after this fashion, which is considered by evil-minded men to be symbolical of intoxication, and is not held by such persons to denote that state of deep wisdom and reflection in which the actor knows himself to be, began to think that possibly he had misplaced his confidence and that the dwarf might not be precisely the sort of person to whom to entrust a secret of such delicacy and importance.
-- 'There's no reason why you shouldn't, certainly,' replied Dick, 'and perhaps there are a great many why you should at least there would be nothing strange in your wanting to be my friend, if you were a choice spirit, but then you know you're not a choice spirit.'
-- 'I not a choice spirit?'
-- Choice spirits,' added Dick, smiting himself on the breast, 'are quite a different looking sort of people, you may take your oath of that, sir.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The lady received Maslova affectionately, treated her to choice cakes and sweet wine, while she dispatched her servant somewhere with a note.
-- There was the choice of two things before her; either the humiliating occupation of a servant, with the certain unwelcome attentions of the men, or a secure, quiet and legitimatized position of everybody's mistress.
-- Princess Sophia Vasilievna had finished her meal of choice and nourishing dishes, which she always took alone, that no one might see her performing that unpoetical function.
-- Their conversation related more to sacks, drinking- water, and the choice of seats.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "So, sir," I rejoined, "you give us simply the choice between life and death?"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'll read you the choice bits, hic!Oh dear!Do you think if I drink water it would take off this hiccup?
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A strange choice of favourites!'
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