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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But his words filled me with a strange sort of feeling of disdainful pity for him whenever I thought of them a feel-ing which I did not in the least desire to entertain.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whenever he met a king or chieftain, he stood by him and spoke him fairly.
-- Your tents are filled with bronze and with fair women, for whenever we take a town we give you the pick of them.
-- Sack them whenever you may be displeased with them.
-- When the princes are mixing my choicest wines in the mixing-bowls, they have each of them a fixed allowance, but your cup is kept always full like my own, that you may drink whenever you are minded.
-- Thus spoke the mighty god, crying to them from the city, while Jove's redoubtable daughter, the Trito-born, went about among the host of the Achaeans, and urged them for-ward whenever she beheld them slackening.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hall did not like him, and whenever he dared he talked of the advisability of getting rid of him; but he showed his dislike chiefly by concealing it ostentatiously, and avoiding his visitor as much as possible.
-- These consisted for the most part in looking very hard at the stranger whenever they met, or in asking people who had never seen the stranger, leading questions about him.
-- Miss Statchell sang it at the schoolroom concert (in aid of the church lamps), and thereafter whenever one or two of the villagers were gathered together and the stranger appeared, a bar or so of this tune, more or less sharp or flat, was whistled in the midst of them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I thought at first it was fancy, for whenever I stopped there was silence, save for the eve-ning breeze in the tree-tops.
-- 'Him I will kill, whenever I may meet him.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then, too, Mowgli was taught the Strangers' Hunting Call, which must be repeated aloud till it is an-swered, whenever one of the Jungle-People hunts outside his own grounds.
-- But whenever they found a sick wolf, or a wounded tiger, or bear, the monkeys would torment him, and would throw sticks and nuts at any beast for fun and in the hope of being noticed.
-- Mowgli made no objection, and the monkeys gathered by hundreds and hundreds on the terrace to listen to their own speak-ers singing the praises of the Bandar-log, and whenever a speaker stopped for want of breath they would all shout together: 'This is true; we all say so.'
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:
-- While, therefore, he sustained an outward appearance of calmness and fortitude, his heart leaped into his throat, whenever any of their fierce captors drew nearer than common to the helpless sisters, or fas-tened one of their sullen, wandering looks on those fragile forms which were so little able to resist the slightest assault.
-- Cora alone remembered the parting injunctions of the scout, and whenever an opportunity offered, she stretched forth her arm to bend aside the twigs that met her hands.
-- Whenever the eyes of the wearied travelers rose from the decayed leaves over which they trod, his dark form was to be seen glancing among the stems of the trees in front, his head immovably fastened in a forward position, with the light plume on his crest fluttering in a current of air, made solely by the swiftness of his own motion.
-- Whenever he alluded to any present (and the subtle Indian neglected none), the dark countenance of the flattered in-dividual gleamed with exultation, nor did he even hesitate to assert the truth of the words, by gestures of applause and confirmation.
-- Alice sat upon his knee, parting the gray hairs on the forehead of the old man with her delicate fin-gers; and whenever he affected to frown on her trifling, appeasing his assumed anger by pressing her ruby lips fondly on his wrinkled brow.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The greater part of the time he scraped on two or three strings, accompany-ing every movement of the bow with a motion of the head; bowing almost to the ground, and stamping with his foot whenever a fresh couple were to start.
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:
-- Whenever she went out and compassion for her misadventure made her friends eager to entertain her she bore a demeanour that was perfect.
-- Whenever she spoke of her husband it was with pity.
-- Whenever a man does anything unexpected, his fellows ascribe it to the most discreditable motives.
-- I gave the boy a message for Ata that I would come whenever she sent for me.
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