creep是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vi. 慢慢地、 悄悄地移动; (时间、 年纪) 悄悄过去; 蔓延,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:
-- Glenarvan ventured to creep out of the sheltering foliage, and made his way to the extremity of the horizontal branch to take a look round.
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:
-- Creep forward quietly and see what they are doing but for heaven's sake don't let them know that they are watched!'
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 invariably began by opening the door a crack and peering in to see if the prince was there, or if he had escaped; then he would creep softly up to the armchair, sometimes making Muish-kin jump by his sudden appearance.
-- I did not dare lie down on my bed for fear it should creep under my pillow.
-- I thought as I came along with her that she would not like to creep in so secretly, but I was quite wrong.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I listened, rigid, and heard nothing but the creep of the blood in my ears.
-- As soon as my hand is taken from them the beast begins to creep back, begins to assert itself again.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The proper thing to do is to climb up a mountain with a well-balanced saddle, hang on by all four feet and your ears too, and creep and crawl and wriggle along, till you come out hundreds of feet above anyone else on a ledge where there's just room enough for your hoofs.
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:
-- Do you keep him under your rifle while I creep in behind, through the bush, and take him alive.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At last, when the night was slow to creep on towards two o'clock, I felt that I absolutely could no longer bear the place as a place to lie down in, and that I must get up.
-- The tide, beginning to run down at nine, and being with us until three, we intended still to creep on after it had turned, and row against it until dark.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Creep in,' said the witch, 'and see if it is properly heated, so that 116 Grimms' Fairy Taleswe can put the bread in.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The chains that held my left leg were about two yards long, and gave me not only the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semicircle, but, being fixed within four inches 23of the gate, allowed me to creep in, and lie at my full length in the temple.
-- The best- ex pedient I could think of, was to creep into my house, which I accordingly did; and shutting the gate after me, I went as far as the length of my chain would suffer, and discharged 25my body of that uneasy load.
-- The emperor holds a stick in his hands, both ends parallel to the horizon, while the candidates advancing, one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep un-der it, backward and forward, several times, according as the stick is advanced or depressed.
-- Here it was impossible for me to advance a step; for the stalks were so interwoven, that I could not creep through, and the beards of the fallen ears so strong and pointed, that they pierced through my clothes into my flesh.
-- In the meantime, there suddenly fell such a violent shower of hail, that I was immediately by the force of it, struck to the ground: and when I was down, the hailstones gave me such cruel bangs all over the body, as if I had been pelted with tennis-balls; however, I made a shift to creep on all fours, and shelter myself, by lying flat on my face, on the lee-side of a border of lemon-thyme, but so bruised from head to foot, that I could not go abroad in ten days.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She sat at the window, when the sun began to sink behind the smoke; she sat there, when the smoke was burning red, when the colour faded from it, when darkness seemed to rise slowly out of the ground, and creep upward, upward, up to the house-tops, up the church steeple, up to the summits of the factory chimneys, up to the sky.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was aware of the extraordinary vegetative power of these plants, which have been known to creep along the bottom of the great ocean, and stop the advance of large ships.
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:
-- If he has refused to creep up into the middle classes, when he had a chance; and if he's a man who stands up for his own sex, then they'll do him in.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was late when she came back, and no one saw her creep upstairs and shut herself into her mother's room.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I ob-served also that there was a place at the farther side of it that went in further, but was so low that it required me to creep upon my hands and knees to go into it, and whither it went I knew not; so, having no candle, I gave it over for that time, but resolved to go again the next day provided with candles and a tinder-box, which I had made of the lock of one of the muskets, with some wildfire in the pan.
-- Accordingly, the next day I came provided with six large candles of my own making (for I made very good candles now of goat's tallow, but was hard set for candle-wick, us-ing sometimes rags or rope- yarn, and sometimes the dried rind of a weed like nettles); and going into this low place I was obliged to creep upon all-fours as I have said, almost ten yards - which, by the way, I thought was a venture bold enough, considering that I knew not how far it might go, nor what was beyond it.
-- I re-solved to wait, to see if they did not separate; and therefore, to make sure of them, I drew my ambuscade nearer, and or-dered Friday and the captain to creep upon their hands and feet, as close to the ground as they could, that they might not be discovered, and get as near them as they could pos-sibly before they offered to fire.
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