pursue是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 追赶, 追踪; 继续, 从事,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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was single-hearted in his aim, and to pursue it he was willing to sacrifice not only himself many can do that but others.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But it was in vain too for the hunters to pursue such agile game, which went bounding away like balls.
-- "Let us pursue this exploration to the end," said he.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It would be tedious to pursue the conversation through all its artful windings, or to develope the gradual approaches by which the heart of Richard Swiveller was gained.
-- 'Let me persuade you, then oh, do let me persuade you,' said the child, 'to think no more of gains or losses, and to try no fortune but the fortune we pursue together.'
-- 'We pursue this aim together,' retorted her grandfather, still looking away and seeming to confer with himself.
-- Mr Brass not caring, as it seemed, to pursue the subject any further, they both plied their pens at a great pace, and there the discussion ended.
-- CHAPTER 38Kit for it happens at this juncture, not only that we have breathing time to follow his fortunes, but that the necessities of these adventures so adapt themselves to our ease and inclination as to call upon us imperatively to pursue the track we most desire to take Kit, while the matters treated of in the last fifteen chapters were yet in progress, was, as the reader may suppose, gradually familiarising himself more and more with Mr and Mrs Garland, Mr Abel, the pony, and Barbara, and gradually coming to consider them one and all as his particular private friends, and Abel Cottage, Finchley, as his own proper home.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To see him leap and run and pursue me over hedge and ditch was the worst of nightmares.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The United States were the first in the field; and in New York they made preparations for an expedition destined to pursue this narwhal.
-- The arsenals were opened to Commander Farragut, who hastened the arming of his frigate; but, as it always happens, the moment it was decided to pursue the monster, the monster did not appear.
-- The chase began again, and the captain, leaning towards me, said:"I will pursue that beast till my frigate bursts up."
-- Not only had he put himself beyond the pale of human laws, but he had made himself independent of them, free in the strictest acceptation of the word, quite beyond their reach!Who then would dare to pursue him at the bottom of the sea, when, on its surface, he defied all attempts made against him?
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I did not know whether to resent this language or pursue my explanation; but he seemed so powerfully affected that I took pity and proceeded with my dreams; affirming I had never heard the appellation of 'Catherine Linton' before, but reading it often over produced an impression which personified itself when I had no longer my imagination under control.
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