inclined是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 倾向于的,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:
-- Neither Glenarvan nor Thalcave appeared inclined to yield.
-- He spoke with such conviction, however, that all eyes turned toward Glenarvan, for Paganel's affirmation was a direct answer to his question, but Glenarvan shook his head, and said nothing, though evidently he was not inclined to favor his friend's views.
-- Paganel was inclined to think it was some description of meteor, and his lively imagination was already in search of an explanation, when Ayrton cut short all his conjectures summarily, by announcing that the cloud of dust was caused by a drove of cattle on the road.
-- Everyone inclined to the opinion of McNabbs except Paganel, who congratulated himself on walking under shadeless trees, though all the time he was wiping the perspiration from his forehead.
-- The plains which lay at the foot of the Australian Alps were level, but slightly inclined toward the east.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She is a heavy, solid person, very limited, intensely respectable, and inclined to be puritanical.
-- From his knowl-edge of our rooms and of my appearance, as well as from his general conduct, I am inclined to think that Stapleton's career of crime has been by no means limited to this sin-gle Baskerville affair.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For my part, I am inclined to believe it all Darcy's; but you shall do as you choose.'
-- Chapter 47 have been thinking it over again, Elizabeth,' said her 'I uncle, as they drove from the town; 'and really, upon se-rious consideration, I am much more inclined than I was to judge as your eldest sister does on the matter.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was once inclined to have gone on shore to them; but Xury was my better coun-sellor, and said to me, 'No go, no go.'
-- It grew now late, and the to-bacco had, as I said, dozed my head so much that I inclined to sleep; so I left my lamp burning in the cave, lest I should want anything in the night, and went to bed.
-- As long as it lasted I made use of it to min-ute down the days of the month on which any remarkable thing happened to me; and first, by casting up times past, I remembered that there was a strange concurrence of days in the various providences which befell me, and which, if I had been superstitiously inclined to observe days as fatal or fortunate, I might have had reason to have looked upon with a great deal of curiosity.
-- There were also, indeed, several thick watch-coats of the seamen's which were left, but they were too hot to wear; and though it is true that the weather was so vio-lently hot that there was no need of clothes, yet I could not go quite naked - no, though I had been inclined to it, which I was not - nor could I abide the thought of it, though I was alone.
-- The poor savage who fled, but had stopped, though he saw both his enemies fallen and killed, as he thought, yet was so frightened with the fire and noise of my piece that he stood stock still, and neither came for-ward nor went backward, though he seemed rather inclined still to fly than to come on.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I am rather of a jealous temper too by nature, and from our different situations in life, from his being so much more in the world than me, and our continual separation, I was enough inclined for suspicion, to have found out the truth in an instant, if there had been the slightest alteration in his behaviour to me when we met, or any lowness of spirits that I could not account for, or if he had talked more of one lady than another, or seemed in any respect less happy at Longstaple than he used to be.
-- Would they only have laughed at her about the Doctor!But so little were they, anymore than the others, inclined to oblige her, that if Sir John dined from home, she might spend a whole day without hearing any other raillery on the subject, than what she was kind enough to bestow on herself.
-- Mrs. Jennings, who had been inclined from the first to think Marianne's complaint more serious than Elinor, now looked very grave on Mr. Harris's report, and confirming Charlotte's fears and caution, urged the necessity of her immediate removal with her infant; and Mr. Palmer, though treating their apprehensions as idle, found the anxiety and importunity of his wife too great to be withstood.
-- My affection for Marianne, my thorough conviction of her attachment to me it was all insufficient to outweigh that dread of poverty, or get the better of those false ideas of the necessity of riches, which I was naturally inclined to feel, and expensive society had increased.
-- Elinor was half inclined to ask her reason for thinking so, because satisfied that none founded on an impartial consideration of their age, characters, or feelings, could be given; but her mother must always be carried away by her imagination on any interesting subject, and therefore instead of an inquiry, she passed it off with a smile.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When Hanson came home at seven o'clock, he was inclined to be a little crusty--his usual demeanour before supper.
-- Indeed, it affected the entire atmosphere of the flat, as such things are inclined to do, and gave to his wife's mind its subdued and tactful turn, anxious to avoid taciturn replies.
-- which he addressed to those noted or rich individuals who knew him and were inclined to be friendly.
-- To one not inclined to drink, and gifted with a more serious turn of mind, such a bubbling, chattering, glittering chamber must ever seem an anomaly, a strange commentary on nature and life.
-- That officer of the board, a full-chested, round-faced negro, approached, and inclined his ear.
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