whenever是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为conj. 无论何时, 随时; 每当,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'If I have only a piece of bread (and I certainly shall always be able to get that), I can, whenever I like, eat my butter and cheese with it; and when I am thirsty I can milk my cow and drink the milk: and what can I wish for more?'
-- said Hans; 'I should be the happiest man in the world, if I could have money whenever I put my hand in my pocket: what could I want more?
-- Then she took a walk upon the roofs of the town, looked out for opportunities, and then stretched herself in the sun, and licked her lips whenever she thought of the pot of fat, and not until it was evening did she return home.
-- And whenever she had picked one, she fancied that she saw a still prettier one farther on, and ran after it, and 128 Grimms' Fairy Talesso got deeper and deeper into the wood.
-- Now there was a sword that cut off an enemy's head whenever the wearer gave the words, 'Heads off!
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called 'A Voyage round the world.'
-- There could not be few-er than thirty persons with their wives and children (for the country is very populous;) and my master demanded the rate of a full room whenever he showed me at home, al-though it were only to a single family; so that for some time I had but little ease every day of the week (except Wednes-day, which is their Sabbath,) although I were not carried to the town.
-- Whenever I had a mind to see the town, it was always in my travelling-closet; which Glumdalclitch held in her lap in a kind of open sedan, after the fashion of the country, borne by four men, and attended by two others in the queen's livery.
-- I was every day furnishing the court with some ridic-ulous story: and Glumdalclitch, although she loved me to excess, yet was arch enough to inform the queen, whenever I committed any folly that she thought would be diverting to her majesty.
-- Besides, as it is in the power of the monarch to raise the island above the region of clouds and vapours, he can prevent the falling of dews and rain whenever he pleases.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mrs. Gradgrind, a little, thin, white, pink-eyed bundle of shawls, of surpassing feebleness, mental and bodily; who was always taking physic without any effect, and who, whenever she showed a symptom of coming to life, was invariably stunned by some weighty piece of fact tumbling on her; Mrs. Gradgrind hoped it was a dry ditch?
-- After this, whenever Sissy dropped a curtsey to Mr. Gradgrind in the presence of his family, and said in a faltering way, 'I beg your pardon, sir, for being troublesome but have you had any letter yet about me?'
-- Whenever a Coketowner felt he was ill-used that is to say, whenever he was not left entirely alone, and it was proposed to hold him accountable for the consequences of any of his acts he was sure to come out with the awful menace, that he would 'sooner pitch his property into the Atlantic.'
-- Both in his sister's presence, and after she had left the room, the whelp took no pains to hide his contempt for Mr. Bounderby, whenever he could indulge it without the observation of that independent man, by making wry faces, or shutting one eye.
-- 'You must remember, my dear, that whenever I have said anything, on any subject, I have never heard the last of it: and consequently, that I have long left off saying anything.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hans, whenever he met with one of these obstacles, advanced with a great show of precaution, sounding the soil with his long iron pole in order to discover fissures and layers of deep soft snow.
-- We were subjected to the most violent shocks, whenever our sole dependence, a frail wooden raft, struck against the rocky sides of the channel.
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:
-- But his voice was a little tense when he spoke to her, and he began to be silent whenever she was present.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whenever I see a beadle in full fig, coming down a street on a Sunday at the head of a charity school, I am obliged to turn and run away, or I should hit him.
-- Whenever this bell rang, up started Affery, and was in the sick room before she was awake.
-- Yet there were two or three small airless houses at the entrance end of Mews Street, which went at enormous rents on account of their being abject hangers-on to a fashionable situation; and whenever one of these fearful little coops was to be let (which seldom happened, for they were in great request), the house agent advertised it as a gentlemanly residence in the most aristocratic part of town, inhabited solely by the elite of the beau monde.
-- 'And oh ain't it a Ev'nly place,' suddenly interrupted Maggy, who seemed to have the power of going to sleep and waking up whenever she chose.
-- And whenever Clennam spoke, this ill-starred young man was clearly seized with a dread that he was coming, by some artful device, round to that point of wanting to know, you know.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jo remembered the kind old gentleman, who used to let her build railroads and bridges with his big dictionaries, tell her stories about queer pictures in his Latin books, and buy her cards of gingerbread whenever he met her in the street.
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