slowly是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 慢慢地,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He remained staring about him, rotating slowly backwards.
-- Mr. Hall took things in slowly but surely.
-- A happy thought saved me, and as this drove slowly along I followed in its immediate wake, trembling and astonished at the turn of my adventure.
-- And so, shivering, scared, and sniffing with the first intimations of a cold, and with the bruises in the small of my back growing upon my attention, I drove slowly along Oxford Street and past Tottenham Court Road.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After the second day the sea subsided slowly to a glassy calm.
-- I drifted slowly from the schooner.
-- In a kind of stu-por I watched all hands take to the rigging, and slowly but surely she came round to the wind; the sails fluttered, and then bellied out as the wind came into them.
-- I drifted very slowly to the eastward, approach- ing the island slantingly; and presently I saw, with hysterical relief, the launch come round and return towards me.
-- All three began slowly to circle round, raising and stamping their feet and waving their arms; a kind of tune crept into their rhythmic recitation, and a refrain, 'Aloola,' or 'Bal-loola,' it sounded like.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He knew the coast perfectly well, so about midnight, when he felt himself gently bumped on a weed-bed, he said, 'Hm, tide's running strong tonight,' and turning over under water opened his eyes slowly and stretched.
-- At last the elephants began to lie down one after another as is their custom, till only Kala Nag at the right of the line was left standing up; and he rocked slowly from side to side, his ears put forward to listen to the night wind as it blew very slowly across the hills.
-- Little Toomai was just going to sleep, too, when he heard the coir string snap with a little 'tang,' and Kala Nag rolled out of his pickets as slowly and as silently as a cloud rolls out of the mouth of a valley.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- While in view of their admir-ing comrades, the same proud front and ordered array was observed, until the notes of their fifes growing fainter in distance, the forest at length appeared to swallow up the liv-ing mass which had slowly entered its bosom.
-- Besides,' she added, in a low and hurried voice, casting a glance at the distant Cora, who slowly followed the foot-steps of their silent, but sullen guide, 'it may be a friend added to our strength, in time of need.'
-- At length Chingach-gook turned his eyes slowly toward his son, and demanded: 'Do the Maquas dare to leave the print of their moccasins in these woods?'
-- Along this track the travelers, who had produced a surprise so un- usual in the depths of the forest, advanced slowly toward the hunter, who was in front of his associates, in readiness to receive them.
-- The Indian then fastened his eyes keenly on the open countenance of Heyward, but meeting his glance, he turned them quickly away, and seating himself deliberately on the ground, he drew forth the remnant of some former repast, and began to eat, though not without first bending his looks slowly and cautiously around him.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They are like those little nooks of still water, which border a rapid stream, where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current.
-- As Ichabod jogged slowly on his way, his eye, ever open to every symptom of culinary abundance, ranged with de-light over the treasures of jolly autumn.
-- A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down with the tide, her sail hanging uselessly against the mast; and as the reflection of the sky gleamed along the still water, it seemed as if the vessel was suspended in the air.
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:
-- Mrs. Strickland looked slowly from one to another of us.
-- For a moment Strickland's fortitude was shaken, and a tear filled each of his eyes and trickled slowly down his cheeks.
-- "I did not like him, I have told you he was not sympathetic to me, but as I walked slowly down to Taravao I could not prevent an unwilling admiration for the stoical courage which enabled him to bear perhaps the most dreadful of human afflictions.
-- And when we steamed slowly out of the lagoon, making our way gingerly through the opening in the reef, and then steered for the open sea, a certain melancholy fell upon me.
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