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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The hook had fixed right in the stomach, which was found to be absolutely empty, and the disappointed sailors were just going to throw the remains overboard, when the boatswain's attention was attracted by some large object sticking fast in one of the viscera.
-- At last Glenarvan said:"Well, our friends won't be disappointed this time; they will be sure of finding clear, cool water when they get here—that is to say, if Thalcave leaves any for them."
-- The Major watched Ayrton narrowly, and noticed his disappointed look.
-- The quartermaster seemed uneasy, and his companions looked at him with disappointed faces.
-- They remembered how full of well-warranted hope they had been at Cape Bernouilli, and how cruelly disappointed at Twofold Bay!
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Everyone has his worries, prince, especially in these strange and troublous times of ours,' Lebedeff replied, drily, and with the air of a man disappointed of his reasonable expectations.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- and seemed quite disappointed when she answered, "No."
-- "I went into one of the sitting-rooms and waited until they came down, still speculating and argumentative, all a little disappointed at finding no 'horrors,' and all a little puzzled how they stood legally towards me.
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:
-- returned the disappointed scout; 'I heard the imp brushing over the dry leaves, like a black snake, and blinking a glimpse of him, just over ag'in yon big pine, I pulled as it might be on the scent; but 'twouldn't do!and yet for a reasoning aim, if any-body but myself had touched the trigger, I should call it a quick sight; and I may be accounted to have experience in these matters, and one who ought to know.
-- At that instant of extreme danger, a dark hand and glancing knife appeared before him; the Indian released his hold, as the blood flowed freely from around the severed tendons of the wrist; and while Duncan was drawn backward by the saving hand of Uncas, his charmed eyes still were riveted on the fierce and disappointed countenance of his foe, who fell sullenly and disappointed down the irrecoverable preci-pice.
-- said the disappointed Hawkeye, ceasing to rake the leaves with the breech of his rifle; 'tis a certain sign of age, when the sight begins to weaken.
-- 'Such cunning is not without its deviltry,' exclaimed Hawkeye, when he met the disappointed looks of his assis-tants.
-- He followed the crowd, which drew nigh the lodges, gloomy and sullen, like any other multitude that had been disappointed in an execution.
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:
-- Perhaps Charles Strickland's power and originality would scarcely have sufficed to turn the scale if the remarkable mythopoeic faculty of mankind had not brushed aside with impatience a story which disappointed all its craving for the extraordinary.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You dare not, you cannot deny, that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing them from each other of exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability, and the other to its de-rision for disappointed hopes, and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind.'
-- When she remembered the style of his address, she was still full of indignation; but when she considered how unjustly she had condemned and upbraided him, her anger was turned against herself; and his disappointed feelings became the object of compassion.
-- With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be content; but her own opinion continued the same, and she left him disappointed and sorry.
-- Chapter 46 lizabeth had been a good deal disappointed in not find-Eing a letter from Jane on their first arrival at Lambton; and this disappointment had been renewed on each of the mornings that had now been spent there; but on the third her repining was over, and her sister justified, by the receipt of two letters from her at once, on one of which was marked that it had been missent elsewhere.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Elinor's compassion for him increased, as she had reason to suspect that the misery of disappointed love had already been known to him.
-- Are those who have been disappointed in their first choice, whether from the inconstancy of its object, or the perverseness of circumstances, to be equally indifferent during the rest of their lives?"
-- cried Mrs. Palmer, with a laugh, "I shall be quite disappointed if you do not.
-- I thought you would, he is so pleasant; and Mr. Palmer is excessively pleased with you and your sisters I can tell you, and you can't think how disappointed he will be if you don't come to Cleveland. I can't imagine why you should object to it."
-- The tea things were brought in, and already had Marianne been disappointed more than once by a rap at a neighbouring door, when a loud one was suddenly heard which could not be mistaken for one at any other house, Elinor felt secure of its announcing Willoughby's approach, and Marianne, starting up, moved towards the door.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Accordingly, when he arrived, he was disappointed to find Carrie out.
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