ferocious是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 凶猛的, 凶残的,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Glenarvan, as usual, always the peacemaker, interfered in the debate, and said:"Whether the loss of ferocious animals is to be regretted or not, in a scientific point of view, there is no help for it now; we must be content to do without them.
-- A jaguar is a bloodthirsty, ferocious creature.
-- By the glare of the flames, they were immediately recognized by Paganel, as the ferocious species peculiar to America, called CAIMANS in the Spanish territories.
-- "You see then, friends," went on Jacques Paganel, "there are few if any savages, no ferocious animals, no convicts, and there are not many countries of Europe for which you can say as much.
-- Neither settlers nor squatters were to be met with; it was entirely uninhabited, unless by ferocious bushrangers and bandits.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
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:
-- 'They ask for the hunter who knows the paths through the woods,' returned Magua, in his broken English, laying his hand, at the same time, with a ferocious smile, on the bundle of leaves with which a wound on his own shoulder was bandaged.
-- repeated the Indian, casting an oblique glance of the most ferocious expression at her unyielding coun-tenance; 'is it justice to make evil and then punish for it?
-- The lineaments of the quivering features of Magua proved more ductile; his countenance gradually lost its character of defi-ance in an expression of ferocious joy, and heaving a breath from the very bottom of his chest, he pronounced aloud the formidable name of: 'Le Cerf Agile!'
-- One warrior in particular, a man of wild and ferocious mien, had been conspicuous for the attention he had given to the words of the speaker.
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:
-- Strickland was in a good humour, and when Dirk Stroeve came up and sat down with us he attacked him with ferocious banter.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In fact, Top, who felt that his interest was concerned went and ferreted everywhere with an instinct doubled by a ferocious appetite.
-- As soon as he could get a regular weapon, that is to say, one of the guns which Pencroft begged for, Gideon Spilett resolved to make desperate war against the ferocious beasts, and exterminate them from the island.
-- Herbert recognized it as the ferocious rival of the tiger, as formidable as the puma, which is the rival of the largest wolf!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His voice was harsh by nature, but not brutal; and though his face, besides possessing the characteristics already mentioned, was overshadowed by a quantity of long dark hair, its expression was neither ferocious nor bad.
-- Another draught from the bowl; and, cowering over the fire with a ferocious aspect, he muttered to himself again.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We have no pity for these ferocious creatures.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- demanded he of the shabby coat, shifting his ferocious gaze from me to the young lady.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Under this ferocious banter, she sat breathing harder, and her mouth was disturbed.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And as if the now tested reality of his might had in former legendary times thrown its shadow before it; we find some book naturalists Olassen and Povelson declaring the Sperm Whale not only to be a consternation to every other creature in the sea, but also to be so incredibly ferocious as continually to be athirst for human blood.
-- Accordingly, besides the monkey-rope, with which I now and then jerked the poor fellow from too close a vicinity to the maw of what seemed a peculiarly ferocious shark he was provided with still another protection.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said Sikes, regarding the animal with a kind of grim and ferocious approval.
-- Mr. Dawkins gave his hat a ferocious cock, after delivering this sentiment, and looked at Master Bates, as if to denote that he would feel obliged by his saying anything to the contrary.
-- He has not been shaved very recently, but he don't look at all ferocious notwithstanding.
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