evening是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 傍晚, 黄昏, 晚上,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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had, the evening before, drunk plentifully of a most delicious wine called glimigrim, (the Blefuscudians call it flunec, but ours is esteemed the better sort,) which is very diuretic.
-- Having thus prepared all things as well as I was able, I set sail on the twenty-fourth day of September 1701, at six in the morning; and when I had gone about four-leagues to 92 Gulliver's Travelsthe northward, the wind being at south-east, at six in the evening I descried a small island, about half a league to the north-west.
-- The wind was full west, and by six in the evening I com-puted I had gone eastward at least eighteen leagues; when I spied a very small island about half a league off, which I soon reached.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On his way home, on the evening he set aside for this momentous purpose, he took the precaution of stepping into a chemist's shop and buying a bottle of the very strongest smelling-salts.
-- Meanwhile the marriage was appointed to be solemnized in eight weeks' time, and Mr. Bounderby went every evening to Stone Lodge as an accepted wooer.
-- 'I have got an appointment with him to meet him in the evening at the station here,' said Tom, 'and I am going to dine with him afterwards, I believe.
-- The evening come, she put on her bonnet and shawl, and went quietly out: having her reasons for hovering in a furtive way about the station by which a passenger would arrive from Yorkshire, and for preferring to peep into it round pillars and corners, and out of ladies' waiting-room windows, to appearing in its precincts openly.
-- All the journey, immovable in the air though never left behind; plain to the dark eyes of her mind, as the electric wires which ruled a colossal strip of music-paper out of the evening sky, were plain to the dark eyes of her body; Mrs. Sparsit saw her staircase, with the figure coming down.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Towards evening the schooner doubled Cape Skagen, the northernmost part of Denmark, crossed the Skagerrak during the night--skirted the extreme point of Norway through the gut of Cape Lindesnes, and then reached the Northern Seas.
-- CHAPTER 8 THE EIDER-DOWN HUNTER--OFF AT LAST That evening I took a brief walk on the shore near Reykjavik, after which I returned to an early sleep on my bed of coarse planks, where I slept the sleep of the just.
-- In the evening we dined with Baron Trampe, in company with the Mayor of Reykjavik, and Doctor Hyaltalin, the great medical man of Iceland.
-- Our last evening was spent in a long conversation with M. Fridriksson, whom I liked very much--the more that I never expected to see him or anyone else again.
-- It was four o'clock in the evening and we had traveled four Danish miles, about equal to twenty English.
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:
-- That evening he said to her: 'You're coming round to my room tonight, aren't you?
-- Clifford was yellow at the gills with anger, and at evening the whites of his eyes were a little yellow too.
-- It was still their habit to spend the evening together, till ten o'clock.
-- The serious ones dress up in evening clothes and go off to the Pally to show off before a lot of girls and dance these new Charlestons and what not.
-- I'm sure sometimes the bus'll be full of young fellows in evening suits, collier lads, off to the Pally: let alone those that have gone with their girls in motors or on motor-bikes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- HomeIt was a Sunday evening in London, gloomy, close, and stale.
-- She had been, by snatches of a few weeks at a time, to an evening school outside, and got her sister and brother sent to day-schools by desultory starts, during three or four years.
-- Tip languished in Clifford's Inns for six months, and at the expiration of that term sauntered back one evening with his hands in his pockets, and incidentally observed to his sister that he was not going back again.
-- One evening she was alone at work standing up at the window, to save the twilight lingering above the wall when he opened the door and walked in.
-- This brought them to the tavern-establishment at the upper end of the prison, where the collegians had just vacated their social evening club.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The morning charities and ceremonies took so much time that the rest of the day was devoted to preparations for the evening festivities.
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