weigh是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 称…重量, 称; 重达; 考虑, 权衡,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But if you were free to-day, to-morrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain: or, choos-ing her, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repen-tance and regret would surely follow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whether it was a son who would never know his father's story; who might even live to weigh the possibility of his father's having disappeared of his own will and act.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "You'd better get your hair cut, it'll weigh you down, especially at the top."
-- "But," said Sergey Ivanovitch, smiling subtly, and addressing Karenin, "One must allow that to weigh all the advantages and disadvantages of classical and scientific studies is a difficult task, and the question which form of education was to be preferred would not have been so quickly and conclusively decided if there had not been in favor of classical education, as you expressed it just now, its moral--disons le mot--anti-nihilist influence."
-- answered Levin, calculating that Vassenka could hardly weigh less than seventeen stone.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They were on board when the Henrietta made ready to weigh anchor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was crushed by poverty, but the anxieties of his position had of late ceased to weigh upon him.
-- Towards evening this sensation usually began to weigh on him more heavily.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'To leave this metropolis,' said Mr. Micawber, 'and my friend Mr.Thomas Traddles, without acquitting myself of the pecuniary partof this obligation, would weigh upon my mind to an insupportableextent.
-- Take your time, and weigh it well.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "The very thing I said this morning," observed Joseph, "'Justice is come to weigh him in the balances,' I said in my reflectious way, 'and if he's found wanting, so be it unto him,' and a bystander said 'Hear, hear!A man who can talk like that ought to be heard.'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I would not disturb you at this period, when so many misfor-tunes weigh upon you, but a conversation that I had with my uncle previous to his departure renders some explana-tion necessary before we meet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He keeps them on shelves over his head, and will weigh them all.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He inspect-ed each one, lifted it up, put his nose to it, and at length said: 'The jam seems to me to be good, so weigh me out four ounces, dear woman, and if it is a quarter of a pound that is of no consequence.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Neither is this at all to be wondered at, because nature, in that country, observing the same proportion through all her operations, a hailstone is near eighteen hundred times as large as one in Europe; which I can assert upon expe-rience, having been so curious as to weigh and measure them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was the hotel with its gateway, and its savoury smell of cooking; there was the cafe with its bright windows, and its rattling of dominoes; there was the dyer's with its strips of red cloth on the doorposts; there was the silversmith's with its earrings, and its offerings for altars; there was the tobacco dealer's with its lively group of soldier customers coming out pipe in mouth; there were the bad odours of the town, and the rain and the refuse in the kennels, and the faint lamps slung across the road, and the huge Diligence, and its mountain of luggage, and its six grey horses with their tails tied up, getting under weigh at the coach office.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Meg had told her adventures gayly and said over and over what a charming time she had had, but something still seemed to weigh upon her spirits, and when the younger girls were gone to bed, she sat thoughtfully staring at the fire, saying little and looking worried.
-- He reluctantly departs, but his wrongs weigh upon his spirit, and by-and-by when an opportunity comes to re-dress them, he outwits Mamma by a shrewd bargain.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But look at this matter in other lights; weigh it in all sorts of scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been.
-- According to a careful calculation I have made, and which I partly base upon Captain Scoresby's estimate, of seventy tons for the largest sized Greenland whale of sixty feet in length; according to my careful calculation, I say, a Sperm Whale of the largest magnitude, between eighty-five and ninety feet in length, and something less than forty feet in its fullest circumference, such a whale will weigh at least ninety tons; so that, reckoning thirteen men to a ton, he would considerably outweigh the combined population of a whole village of one thousand one hundred inhabitants.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Xury said it was a lion, and it might be so for aught I know; but poor Xury cried to me to weigh the anchor and row away; 'No,' says I, 'Xury; we can slip our cable, with the buoy to it, and go off to sea; they cannot follow us far.'
-- Besides this, when I came to the till in the chest, I found there three great bags of pieces of eight, which held about eleven hundred pieces in all; and in one of them, wrapped up in a paper, six doubloons of gold, and some small bars or wedges of gold; I suppose they might all weigh near a pound.
-- This was a great disappointment to us, for now we were at a loss what to do, as our seizing those seven men on shore would be no advantage to us if we let the boat escape; because they would row away to the ship, and then the rest of them would be sure to weigh and set sail, and so our recovering the ship would be lost.
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