time是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 时间, 时刻; 次, 回; 时代, 时期; 倍, 乘,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《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Presently one of the passengers, after vigorously pushing his way through the importunate crowd of porters, came up to him and politely asked if he could point out the English consulate, at the same time showing a passport which he wished to have visaed.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is the property of the people of the state, and what they want--or what they are told they want--is a mill to turn out men and women who will lead moral lives, play bridge, drive good cars, be enterprising in business, and occasionally mention books, though they are not expected to have time to read them.
-- Ordinarily Encore would have suggested, with amiable malice, that Gottlieb was a "crapehanger" who wasted time destroying the theories of other men instead of making new ones of his own.
-- It is not time for you."
-- Oh, Lord, I hope I won't take sick, first time I go into the dissecting-room.
-- That the bloodless and acquisitive Angus Duer should waste time listening to fiddlers was astounding to him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The landlady who provided him with garret, dinners, and at-tendance, lived on the floor below, and every time he went out he was obliged to pass her kitchen, the door of which invariably stood open.
-- And each time he passed, the young man had a sick, frightened feeling, which made him scowl and feel ashamed.
-- This was not because he was cowardly and abject, quite the contrary; but for some time past he had been in an over-strained irritable condition, verging on hypochondria.
-- From time to time, he would mutter something, from the habit of talking to himself, to which he had just confessed.
-- At the time he had put no faith in those dreams and was only tantalising himself by their hideous but daring recklessness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I cannotclose this Volume more agreeably to myself, than with a hopefulglance towards the time when I shall again put forth my two greenleaves once a month, and with a faithful remembrance of the genialsun and showers that have fallen on these leaves of DavidCopperfield, and made me happy.
-- The caul was won, I recollect, by an oldlady with a hand-basket, who, very reluctantly, produced from itthe stipulated five shillings, all in halfpence, and twopencehalfpenny short- as it took an immense time and a great waste of 10arithmetic, to endeavour without any effect to prove to her.
-- Thetwilight was by this time shading down into darkness; and dimlyas they saw each other, they could not have done that without theaid of the fire.
-- The sheep are feeding there, when Ikneel up, early in the morning, in my little bed in a closet withinmy mother's room, to look out at it; and I see the red light shiningon the sun-dial, and think within myself, 'Is the sun-dial glad, Iwonder, that it can tell the time again?'
-- I look up at the monumental tablets on the wall, and try tothink of Mr. Bodgers late of this parish, and what the feelings ofMrs. Bodgers must have been, when affliction sore, long time Mr.Bodgers bore, and physicians were in vain.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He lived about a mile from Highbury, was a frequent visitor, and always welcome, and at this time more welcome than usual, as coming directly from their mutual connexions in London.
-- 'We should not like her so well as we do, sir, if we could suppose it; but she knows how much the marriage is to Miss Taylor's advantage; she knows how very acceptable it must be, at Miss Taylor's time of life, to be settled in a home of her own, and how important to her to be secure of a comfortable provision, and therefore cannot allow herself to feel so much pain as pleasure.
-- Your time has been properly and delicately spent, if you have been endeav-ouring for the last four years to bring about this marriage.
-- It was now some time since Miss Taylor had begun to in-fluence his schemes; but as it was not the tyrannic influence of youth on youth, it had not shaken his determination of never settling till he could purchase Randalls, and the sale of Randalls was long looked forward to; but he had gone steadily on, with these objects in view, till they were accom-plished.
-- Now was the time for Mr. Frank Churchill to come among them; and the hope strengthened when it was understood that he had written to his new mother on the occasion.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The practice of divination by Bible and key, the regarding of valentines as things of serious import, the shearing-supper, and the harvest-home, have, too, nearly disappeared in the wake of the old houses; and with them have gone, it is said, much of that love of fuddling to which the village at one time was notoriously prone.
-- On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.
-- He had just reached the time of life at which "young" is ceasing to be the prefix of "man" in speaking of one.
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