sensitive是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 敏感的; 过敏的, 容易生气的; (仪器) 灵敏的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Madame Defarge being sensitive to cold, was wrapped in fur, and had a quantity of bright shawl twined about her head, though not to the conceal-ment of her large earrings.
-- 'And you,' returned Sydney, busy concocting the punch, 'are such a sensitive and poetical spirit ' 'Come!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Well, let's go into my room," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, who knew his friend's sensitive and irritable shyness, and, taking his arm, he drew him along, as though guiding him through dangers.
-- "Oh!if everyone were as sensitive as you are!"
-- At this moment, in his present softened state of feeling, sensitive to everything, this inevitable act of hypocrisy was not merely painful to Levin, it seemed to him utterly impossible.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Europe, her Europe, which she had always known and loved, Joyce offered to him on generous hands, and he who had ever been sensitive to warm colors and fine gestures--when he was not frenzied with work--was grateful to her and boyish with wonder.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I tell you what it is; an hon-est and sensitive man is open; and a business man 'listens and goes on eating' you up.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In short, I wasnot a favourite there with anybody, not even with myself; for thosewho did like me could not show it, and those who did not showedit so plainly that I had a sensitive consciousness of alwaysappearing constrained, boorish, and dull.
-- All the sensitive feelings it wounded so cruelly, all the shame andmisery it kept alive within my breast, became more poignant as Ithought of this; and I determined that the life was unendurable.
-- 'They are not to be expected to be as sensitive as weare.
-- 'If I had shown myself a sensitive dwarf to your false friend,'pursued the little woman, shaking her head at me, withreproachful earnestness, 'how much of his help or good-will doyou think I should ever have had?
-- I took Mr. Dick with me, because, acutely sensitive to my aunt'sreverses, and sincerely believing that no galley-slave or convictworked as I did, he had begun to fret and worry himself out ofspirits and appetite, as having nothing useful to do.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Love, being an extremely exacting usurer (a sense of exorbitant profit, spiritually, by an exchange of hearts, being at the bottom of pure passions, as that of exorbitant profit, bodily or materially, is at the bottom of those of lower atmosphere), every morning Oak's feelings were as sensitive as the money-market in calculations upon his chances.
-- Boldwood mistook his confusion: sensitive persons are always ready with their "Is it I?"
-- She became more or less red in the cheek, the blood wavering in uncertain flux and reflux over the sensitive space between ebb and flood.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can be-fall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a con-dition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm.
-- I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being and became linked to the chain of existence and events from which I am now excluded.'
-- When I reflected on the work I had completed, no less a one than the creation of a sensitive and rational animal, I could not rank myself with the herd of common projectors.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ellen, sensitive to the bonds ofkin, be they blood or marriage, wrote back reluctantly agreeing that she must stay but demanding Wade and Prissy besent home immediately.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She would rather I did not travel alone, and objects to receiving my maid, for she has a sensitive horror of being talked of by such people.
-- "Murder.--Does it strike too cold on that sensitive place?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He said, 'those animals, like other brutes, had their females in common; but in this they differed, that the she Yahoo would admit the males while she was pregnant; and that the hes would quarrel and fight with the females, as fiercely as with each other; both which practices were such degrees of infamous brutality, as no other sensitive creature ever arrived at.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One idea, above all others, began to trouble me: a very terrible idea, and one calculated to shake the nerves of a man even less sensitive than myself.
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:
-- And they were cut off from their own class by the brooding, obstinate, shut-up nature of Sir Geoffrey, their father, whom they ridiculed, but whom they were so sensitive about.
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