void是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 真空, 空白; 空虚感; 空隙; a. 无效的; 空的, 没有的, 缺乏的; vt. 使,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:
-- My nerves thrilled with anticipation when at last the cold wind upon our faces and the dark, void spac-es on either side of the narrow road told me that we were back upon the moor once again.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They fought and fought, and an iron clank rose through the void air to the brazen vault of heaven.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had watery grey eyes, oddly void of expression.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The solitary and arid blades of grass arose from the passing gusts fearfully perceptible; the bold and rocky mountains were too distinct in their barrenness, and the eye even sought relief, in vain, by attempting to pierce the illimitable void of heaven, which was shut to its gaze by the dusky sheet of ragged and driving vapor.
-- His eyes wandered from the bosom of the mound, where the forest-ers were seated around their glimmering fire, to the fainter light which still lingered in the skies, and then rested long and anxiously on the embodied gloom, which lay like a dreary void on that side of him where the dead reposed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We were greatly 46overcome at parting; and if ever, in my life, I have had a void madein my heart, I had one made that day.
-- I did feel, sometimes, for a little while, that I could havewished my wife had been my counsellor; had had more characterand purpose, to sustain me, and improve me by; had beenendowed with power to fill up the void which somewhere seemedto be about me; but I felt as if this were an unearthlyconsummation of my happiness, that never had been meant to be,and never could have been.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He could not understand it; but there were symptoms of intelligence between them he thought so at least 418 Emmasymptoms of admiration on his side, which, having once observed, he could not persuade himself to think entirely void of meaning, however he might wish to escape any of Emma's errors of imagination.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Having for some time known the want of a satisfactory form to fill an increasing void within him, his position moreover affording the widest scope for his fancy, he painted her a beauty.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance.
-- This winter has been passed most miserably, tortured 229as I have been by anxious suspense; yet I hope to see peace in your countenance and to find that your heart is not to-tally void of comfort and tranquillity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Large drops of rain soon began to fall, and, as the storm clouds came sailing onward, others supplied the void they left behind and spread over all the sky.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'If it had ever been here, its ashes alone would save me from the void in which my whole life sinks.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The only exception to this extraordinary landscape, was the Peak of Scartaris, which seemed lost in the great void of the heavens.
-- I gazed for some time upon the void above.
-- The long accumulated vapors were resolved into water, and the air required to fill up the void produced became a wild and raging tempest.
-- The mineral crust was about to burst, the heavy granite masses were about to rejoin, the fissure was about to close, the void was about to be filled up, and we poor atoms to be crushed in its awful embrace!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A terrible hollow seemed to menace him somewhere, somehow, a void, and into this void his energy would collapse.
-- But she could feel the black void of despair inside him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Austere faces, inexorable discipline, penance in this world and terror in the next nothing graceful or gentle anywhere, and the void in my cowed heart everywhere this was my childhood, if I may so misuse the word as to apply it to such a beginning of life.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Your retrospections must be so totally void of reproach, that the contentment arising from them is not of philoso-phy, but, what is much better, of innocence.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I now began to consider seriously my condition, and the circumstances I was reduced to; and I drew up the state of my affairs in writing, not so much to leave them to any that were to come after me - for I was likely to have but few heirs - as to deliver my thoughts from daily poring over them, and afflicting my mind; and as my reason began now to mas-ter my despondency, I began to comfort myself as well as I could, and to set the good against the evil, that I might have something to distinguish my case from worse; and I stat-ed very impartially, like debtor and creditor, the comforts I enjoyed against the miseries I suffered, thus:- Evil: I am cast upon a horrible, desolate island, void of all hope of recovery.
-- So void was I of everything that was good, or the least sense of what I was, or was to be, that, in the greatest deliv-erances I enjoyed - such as my escape from Sallee; my being taken up by the Portuguese master of the ship; my being planted so well in the Brazils; my receiving the cargo from England, and the like - I never had once the words 'Thank God!'
-- Friday, who had, as we say, the heels of the bear, came up with him quickly, and took up a great stone, and threw it at him, and hit him just on the head, but did him no more harm than if he had thrown it against a wall; but it answered Friday's end, for the rogue was so void of fear that he did it purely to make the bear follow him, and show us some laugh as he called it.
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