chip是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 片屑, 薄片, 集成电路 v. 削, 铲, 形成缺口,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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Likewise upon the extreme stern of the boat where it was also triangularly platformed level with the gunwale, Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adroitly balancing himself to the jerking tossings of his chip of a craft, and silently eyeing the vast blue eye of the sea.
-- Floating on the waves we saw the abandoned boat, as for one instant it tossed and gaped beneath the ship's bows like a chip at the base of a cataract; and then the vast hull rolled over it, and it was seen no more till it came up weltering astern.
-- Not a chip of the boat was harmed, nor a hair of any oarsman's head; but the mate for ever sank.
-- The first uprising momentum of the whale modifying its direction as he struck the surface involuntarily launched him along it, to a little distance from the centre of the destruction he had made; and with his back to it, he now lay for a moment slowly feeling with his flukes from side to side; and whenever a stray oar, bit of plank, the least chip or crumb of the boats touched his skin, his tail swiftly drew back, and came sideways smiting the sea.
-- And now, concentric circles seized the lone boat itself, and all its crew, and each floating oar, and every lance-pole, and spinning, animate and inanimate, all round and round in one vortex, carried the smallest chip of the Pequod out of sight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But oh!when I did find the house,and did dismount at the garden gate, and drag those stony-heartedboots across the lawn to Dora sitting on a garden seat under a lilac-tree, what a spectacle she was, upon that beautiful morning, amongthe butterflies, in a white chip bonnet and a dress of celestial blue!
-- Ultimately Ifound myself backing Traddles into the fireplace, and bowing ingreat confusion to two dry little elderly ladies, dressed in black,and each looking wonderfully like a preparation in chip or tan ofthe late Mr. Spenlow.
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:
-- Like a chip on a dreary pond, she felt.
-- She seized one day upon her own daughter, as that chip of the female block was returning from school; but the little one, instead of kissing the loving mother's hand, bit it firmly, and so re-ceived from the other hand a smack in the face which sent her reeling into the gutter: whence she was rescued by an indignant and harassed grandmother.
-- 'I'll bet it was!Ha-ha!My daughter, chip of the old block, what!I never went back on a good bit of fucking, myself.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Well,' says Buck, 'a feud is this way: A man has a quar- rel with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kills HIM; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the COUSINS chip in and by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud.
-- Them poor things was that glad and happy it made my heart ache to see them getting fooled and lied to so, but I didn't see no safe way for me to chip in and change the general tune.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Had Gerald been brawny, he would have gone the way of the otherO'Haras and moved quietly and darkly among the rebels against the government But Gerald was "loud-mouthed andbullheaded," as his mother fondly phrased it, hair trigger of temper, quick with his fists and possessed of a chip on hisshoulder so large as to be almost visible to the naked eye.
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