sly是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 狡猾的, 偷偷摸摸的,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 Major and his cousin exchanged sly glances, and McNabbs said, mischievously, with a look of fun on his face, "Ah, ah, my worthy friend; is this another of your misadventures?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ha, ha!You've retired from the army in good time, I see!Plain clothes!Well done, sly rogue!Non-sense!I see you knew it all before I dare say you knew all about it yesterday-" Although the impudence of this attack, this public proclamation of intimacy, as it were, was doubtless premed-itated, and had its special object, yet Evgenie Pavlovitch at first seemed to intend to make no show of observing either his tormentor or her words.
-- I thought he would throw himself into my service out of re-vengeful feelings towards the prince, the sly little beast!But I know him better now.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I want to see my sister, that you keep cooped up here, poisoning her mind with your sly secrets and pretending an affection for her that you may work her to death, and add a few scraped shillings every week to the money you can hardly count.
-- 'Has the sly old fox made his fortune then, and gone to live in a tranquil cot in a pleasant spot with a distant view of the changing sea?'
-- Not to be behind-hand in the bustle, Mr Quilp went to work with surprising vigour; hustling and driving the people about, like an evil spirit; setting Mrs Quilp upon all kinds of arduous and impracticable tasks; carrying great weights up and down, with no apparent effort; kicking the boy from the wharf, whenever he could get near him; and inflicting, with his loads, a great many sly bumps and blows on the shoulders of Mr Brass, as he stood upon the door-steps to answer all the inquiries of curious neighbours, which was his department.
-- By the time he had finished, Dick was looking down at Quilp in the same sly manner as Quilp was looking up at him, and there remained nothing more to be done but to set out for the house in question.
-- He certainly did not glance at Kit or at his mother, and appeared utterly unconscious of their presence; still Kit could not help feeling, directly, that the attention of the sly little fiend was fastened upon them, and upon nothing else.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He is such a blockhead, and, saving your presence, at the same time such a sly beast!"
-- the boy answered, with a sly expression on his face.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I was hoping now for a man to come along," Gudrun said, suddenly catching her underlip between her teeth, and making a strange grimace, half sly smiling, half anguish.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I know her sly manner of feeling her way with those gloves of hers.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- (Here the listeners stole sly looks at one another, and began to sew diligently.)
-- A second look showed her that the living eyes, under the bushy eyebrows, were kinder even than the paint-ed ones, and there was a sly twinkle in them, which lessened her fear a good deal.
-- 'You sly creature!Of course we meant the young man,' exclaimed Miss Belle, laughing.
-- 'What a sly fellow Laurie is!I said I wished bigger hats were the fashion, because I burn my face every hot day.
-- No one was very near, and running up to ex-amine, he gave it a sly nudge with his toe, which put it just an inch on the right side.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'He doats on it, your worship,' replied Bumble; giving Oliver a sly pinch, to intimate that he had better not say he didn't.
-- The Jew again bade her good-night, and, bestowing a sly kick upon the prostrate form of Mr. Sikes while her back was turned, groped downstairs.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The introduction, however, was immediately made; and as she named their relationship to herself, she stole a sly look at him, to see how he bore it, and was not without the expectation of his decamping as fast as he could from such disgraceful companions.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Oh, don't be so sly before us," said Mrs. Palmer; "for we know all about it, I assure you; and I admire your taste very much, for I think he is extremely handsome.
-- "I can answer for it that Miss Dashwood's is not," said Mrs. Jennings, laughing heartily; "for he is one of the modestest, prettiest behaved young men I ever saw; but as for Lucy, she is such a sly little creature, there is no finding out who SHE likes."
-- Because you are so sly about it yourself, you think nobody else has any senses; but it is no such thing, I can tell you, for it has been known all over town this ever so long.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That sly thief had fallen into deepest poverty, and one day he had been forced to sell his beautiful tail for a bite to eat.
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