disappointed是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 失望的, 扫兴的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I am a disappointed 117drudge, sir.
-- Jacques Three, with his usual craving on him, and evi-dently disappointed by the dialogue taking a turn that did not seem to promise bloodshed, held by Defarge's arm as he 308 A tale of two citiesheld by the turnkey's.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Still he was sorry that he had disappointed the teacher.
-- These things occupied him now, not because he justified them to himself by any sort of general principles, as he had done in former days; on the contrary, disappointed by the failure of his former efforts for the general welfare, and too much occupied with his own thought and the mass of business with which he was burdened from all sides, he had completely given up thinking of the general good, and he busied himself with all this work simply because it seemed to him that he must do what he was doing--that he could not do otherwise.
-- "Not disappointed in him, but in my own feeling; I had expected more.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Passepartout was on the point of vigorously resenting the epithet, the reason of which he could not for the life of him comprehend; but he reflected that the unfortunate Fix was probably very much disappointed and humiliated in his self-esteem, after having so awkwardly followed a false scent around the world, and refrained.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I cannot tell you how disappointed I am, after all the pains I took in breaking you in and making you acquainted with my ideals.
-- Oh, Dr. Arrowsmith, of course I know how wonderful Ross McGurk and Dr. Tubbs and all of you are, but I must say I'm disappointed in your laboratories.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I felt rather disappointed with it.
-- I was greatly touched, and disappointed too,for I had expected that we should be quite gay on this happy andlong-looked-for occasion.
-- 'I have a selfish pleasure in sayinghe has been called mad, or I should not have had the benefit of hissociety and advice for these last ten years and upwards- in fact,ever since your sister, Betsey Trotwood, disappointed me.'
-- Perhaps Imight have been better friends with that poor child your mother,even after your sister Betsey Trotwood disappointed me.
-- Merely telling him that I should expect from him what I alwayshad expected, and had never yet been disappointed in, I openedthe door upon him, as if he had been a great walnut put there to becracked, and went out of the house.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Emma watched the entree of her own particular little friend; and if she could not exult in her dignity and grace, she could not only love the blooming sweetness and the artless manner, but could most heartily rejoice in that light, cheerful, unsen-timental disposition which allowed her so many alleviations of pleasure, in the midst of the pangs of disappointed af-fection.
-- 'He had seen a group of old acquaintance in the street as he passed he had not stopped, he would not stop for more than a word but he had the vanity to think they would be disappointed if he did not call, and much as he wished to stay longer at Hartfield, he must hurry off.'
-- I answered it within an hour; but from the confusion of my mind, and the multiplicity of business fall-ing on me at once, my answer, instead of being sent with all the many other letters of that day, was locked up in my writ-ing-desk; and I, trusting that I had written enough, though but a few lines, to satisfy her, remained without any uneasiness. I was rather disappointed that I did not hear from her again speedily; but I made excuses for her, and was too busy, and may I add? too cheerful in my views to be captious. We removed to Windsor; and two days after-wards I received a parcel from her, my own letters all returned! and a few lines at the same time by the post, stating her extreme surprize at not having had the smallest reply to her last; and adding, that as silence on such a point could not be misconstrued, and as it must be equally desir-able to both to have every subordinate arrangement concluded as soon as possible, she now sent me, by a safe conveyance, all my letters, and requested, that if I could not directly command hers, so as to send them to Highbury within a week, I would forward them after that period to her at : in short, the full direction to Mr. Smallridge's, near Bristol, stared me in the face.
-- Do not pity me till I saw her wan, sick looks. I reached Highbury at the time of day when, from my knowledge of their late breakfast hour, I was cer-tain of a good chance of finding her alone. I was not disappointed; and at last I was not disappointed either in the object of my journey.
-- Now Emma could, indeed, enjoy Mr. Knightley's visits; now she could talk, and she could listen with true happiness, unchecked by that sense of injustice, of guilt, of something most painful, which had haunted her when remembering how disappointed a heart was near her, how much might at that moment, and at a little distance, be enduring by the feelings which she had led astray herself.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She did not know whether to pity him for disappointed love of her, or to be angry with him for having got over it his tone being ambiguous.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Vauquer's aversion was naturally more energetic than her friendship, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love, but to her disappointed expectations.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How you do run on!As if everybody didn't know how famous you are and how brave and what a what a " "I am disappointed in you," he said.
-- Scarlett had made her plans to spend Christmas at Tara, but after Ashley's telegram came no power on earth, noteven a direct command from the disappointed Ellen, could drag her away from Atlanta.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When we had come out again, and had got rid of the boys who had been put into great spirits by the expectation of seeing me publicly tortured, and who were much disappointed to find that my friends were merely rallying round me, we went back to Pumblechook's.
-- I confess that I expected to see my sister denounce him, and that I was disappointed by the different result.
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