try是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 尝试, 试图; 试验, 试用; 审讯n. 尝试,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:
-- 'Then try the river.
-- Anxious to know the worst, and willing, in such an emer-gency, to try the potency of gold he overcame his reluctance to speak to Magua.
-- 'If the Jewish boy might tame the great spirit of Saul by the sound of his harp, and the words of sacred song, it may not be amiss,' he said, 'to try the potency of music here.'
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'll try harder still to make you happy."
-- "You must try and gather together the threads again.
-- And they sent me to Amsterdam to try for a scholarship, and I won it.
-- The false emphasis with which they try to deck their worthless thoughts blunts their susceptibilities.
-- It's a preposterous attempt to try to live only for yourself and by yourself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Scarcely had the four castaways set foot on firm ground, than they all, thinking of the absent one, simultaneously exclaimed, "Perhaps he will try to swim to land!Let us save him!let us save him!"
-- The engineer looked fixedly at the man who spoke, and who added, in a low voice, "Captain Harding, will you try to escape?"
-- In three hours we will attempt the passage, and once on the other side, we will try to get out of this scrape, and I hope may find the captain."
-- "Stop here, my boy," said the sailor; "we have to prepare an encampment, and to try and find rather better grub than these shell-fish.
-- Herbert was the first to break the silence by saying, "Mr. Spilett, you are a smoker and always have matches about you; perhaps you haven't looked well, try again, a single match will be enough!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then he used to take me on his knee, and try to make me understand that she was not lying in her grave, but had flown to a beautiful country beyond the sky where nothing died or ever grew old we were very happy once!'
-- He shall know all about that to-morrow, and in the meantime, as it's rather late, I'll try and get a wink of the balmy.'
-- 'If you are sorrowful, let me know why and be sorrowful too; if you waste away and are paler and weaker every day, let me be your nurse and try to comfort you.
-- I have no resource but you, give me some help, let me try this one last hope.'
-- Mr Brass encouraging this idea, as he would have encouraged any other emanating from the same source, the dwarf walked in to try the effect.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He produced from one of the drawers of a large table the summons, and, ascertaining that he must appear at eleven o'clock, he sat down and wrote to the Princess, thanking her for the invitation, and saying that he should try to call for dinner.
-- "And tell the Korchagins' maid that I thank them; I will try to call."
-- "Then tell him that we shall try the poisoning case."
-- He was so accustomed to the business that to expedite matters he could try two cases at once.
-- Try as he would, he could not force himself to be pleasant.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But how curiously it twists!It's more like a corkscrew than a path!Well, this turn goes to the hill, I suppose no, it doesn't!This goes straight back to the house!Well then, I'll try it the other way.'
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