dog是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 狗, 雄兽vt. 尾随, 跟踪,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:
-- But now their tombs would be left empty, the religious rites would be unsolemnized, and the bones that escaped the teeth of the wild dog would whiten without burial on the field of battle.
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:
-- Being a heavy stick the dog has held it tightly by the middle, and the marks of his teeth are very plainly visible.
-- 'For the very simple reason that I see the dog himself on our very door-step, and there is the ring of its owner.
-- Suppose that it were so suppose that the same man had been the last who had seen Sir Charles alive, and the first to dog the new heir when he returned to England.
-- 'Of course you know the legend of the fiend dog which haunts the family?'
-- 'His nerves were so worked up that the appearance of any dog might have had a fatal effect upon his diseased heart.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And I must not forget that we had in the ship a dog and two cats, of whose eminent history I may have occasion to say some-thing in its place; for I carried both the cats with me; and as for the dog, he jumped out of the ship of himself, and swam on shore to me the day after I went on shore with my first cargo, and was a trusty servant to me many years; I wanted nothing that he could fetch me, nor any company that he could make up to me; I only wanted to have him talk to me, but that would not do.
-- This evening, going farther into the valleys which lay towards the centre of the island, I found there were plenty of goats, though exceedingly shy, and hard to come at; however, I resolved to try if I could not bring my dog to hunt them down.
-- In this journey my dog surprised a young kid, and seized upon it; and I, running in to take hold of it, caught it, and saved it alive from the dog.
-- However, as my arable land was but small, suited to my crop, I got it totally well fenced in about three weeks' time; and shooting some of the creatures in the daytime, I set my dog to guard it in the night, tying him up to a stake at the gate, where he would stand and bark all night long; so in a little time the enemies forsook the place, and the corn grew very strong and well, and began to ripen apace.
-- If I killed more flesh than I could eat, the dog must eat it, or vermin; if I sowed more corn than I could eat, it must be spoiled; the trees that I cut down were lying to rot on the ground; I could make no more use of them but for fuel, and that I had no occasion for but to dress my food.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Look around," she said, a thought of the need that hung outside this fine restaurant like a hungry dog at her heels passing into her eyes.
-- Out in the small back yard was George, Jr., frolicking with a young dog he had recently purchased, and in the parlour Jessica was playing at the piano, the sounds of a merry waltz filling every nook and corner of the comfortable home.
-- So he said: "Where did George get the dog he has there in the yard?"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about some- body that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog cry- ing about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn't make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me.
-- Dog my cats ef I didn' hear sumf'n.
-- There warn't a window to it big enough for a dog to get through.
-- Jim said he bet she did think of it by the time the men was ready to start, and he believed they must a gone up-town to get a dog and so they lost all that time, or else we wouldn't be here on a towhead sixteen or seventeen mile below the village no, indeedy, we would be in that same old town again.
-- Then he says: 'Well, den, I reck'n I did dream it, Huck; but dog my cats ef it ain't de powerfullest dream I ever see.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A bone left by a dog would have tasted good to him!But he found nothing.
-- In the streets, not even a dog could be seen.
-- He slipped a dog collar around Pinocchio's neck and tightened it so that it would not come off.
-- Where is the old dog who used to live in this house?"
-- The Marionette could have told, then and there, all he knew about the shameful contract between the dog and the Weasels, but thinking of the dead dog, he said to himself: "Melampo is dead.
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