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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He grudges my having paid that lieutenant; there can be no other reason!That's the kind he is a dog in the manger!'
-- 'He set a dog on me in Moscow, abloodhound, a terrible beast that chased me all down the street.'
-- 'And I dare swear that you came straight away down here to Pavlofsk to listen to the music and dog her about in the crowd, and stare at her, just as you did today.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Wine-bibber,' he cried, 'with the face of a dog and the heart of a hind, you never dare to go out with the host in fight, nor yet with our cho-sen men in ambuscade.
-- And Teucer answered, 'Most noble son of Atreus, you need not urge me; from the moment we began to drive them back to Ilius, I have never ceased so far as in me lies to look out for men whom I can shoot and kill; I have shot eight barbed shafts, and all of them have been buried in the flesh of warlike youths, but this mad dog I cannot hit.'
-- Antilochus sprang upon him as a dog springs on a fawn which a hunter has hit as it was breaking away from its covert, and killed it.
-- Antilochus, brave soldier though he was, would not stay to face him, but fled like some savage creature which knows it has done wrong, and flies, when it has killed a dog or a man who is herding his cattle, before a body of men can be gathered to attack it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No sooner had Fearenside's dog caught sight of him, however, than it began to bristle and growl savagely, and when he rushed down the steps it gave an undecided hop, and then sprang straight at his hand.
-- They saw the dog's teeth had slipped the hand, heard a kick, saw the dog execute a flanking jump and get home on the stranger's leg, and heard the rip of his trousering.
-- said Fearenside, climbing off the waggon with his whip in his hand, while the dog watched him through the wheel.
-- There was Fearenside telling about it all over again for the second time; there was Mrs. Hall saying his dog didn't have no business to bite her guests; there was Huxter, the general dealer from over the road, interrogative; and Sandy Wadgers from the forge, judicial; besides women and children, all of them saying fatuities: "Wouldn't let en bite me, I knows"; "'Tasn't right have such dargs"; "Whad 'e bite 'n for, than?"
-- Suddenly the dog began growling again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Without taking my eyes off the black form before me, I stooped and picked up this lump of rock; but at my motion the Thing turned abruptly as a dog might have done, and slunk obliquely into the further darkness.
-- I heard the dog (there was only one) draw nearer, and yelp when it came to the thorns.
-- Moreau was just coming up, his face pale and firm, and the dog at his hand barked at me.
-- It was a complex trophy of Moreau's horrible skill, a bear, tainted with dog and ox, and one of the most elaborately made of all his crea-tures.
-- There was something very suggestive of a dog in the cringing attitude of the creature.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So he backed out of the cave mouth growling, and when he was clear he shouted: 'Each dog barks in his own yard!We will see what the Pack will say to this fostering of man-cubs.
-- Sea Catch was fifteen years old, a huge gray fur seal with almost a mane on his shoul-ders, and long, wicked dog teeth.
-- His curly white mane stood up with rage, and his eyes flamed, and his big dog teeth glistened, and he was splendid to look at.
-- Good little dog nice little doggie, then!Go home, you yelping little beast!Oh, why doesn't someone take her away?
-- Now, if I had a full meal for every dog I've kicked across the parade-ground I should be as fat as Two Tails nearly.'
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:
-- 'Of the dog who carries the heart and cunning of a Hu-ron under a pale skin La Longue Carabine.'
-- ex-claimed Duncan, still more confirmed in the evil intentions of his ancient enemy: ' a dog never lies, but when was a wolf known to speak the truth?'
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