save是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 救, 拯救; 储蓄, 贮存; 节省,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Before telephoning he had been full of little brightnesses; he had praised Clif's pool-playing and called Barney "old Cimex lectularius"; but now, while the affectionate Clif worked on him, he sat brooding save when he grumbled (with a return of self-satisfaction), "If you knew all the troubles I have--all the doggone mess a fellow can get into--YOU'D feel down in the mouth!"
-- His examination papers were competent but, save in bacteriology and internal medicine, they were sketchy.
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:
-- It's clear enough: for herself, for her comfort, to save her life she would not sell herself, but for someone else she is doing it!For one she loves, for one she adores, she will sell herself!
-- How are you going to save them from Svidriga脙炉lovs, from Afanasy Ivanovitch Vahrushin, oh, future millionaire Zeus who would arrange their lives for them?
-- For the present he, too, had been obliged to give up the university, but it was only for a time, and he was working with all his might to save enough to return to his studies again.
-- Answer: there is, 182 Crime and Punishmentbecause he has a mother who would save her Rodya with her hundred and twenty-five roubles pension, if she has to starve herself; and a sister, too, who would go into bondage for his sake.
-- We will save him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There has been a time since when I have wondered whether, ifthe life before her could have been revealed to me at a glance, andso revealed as that a child could fully comprehend it, and if herpreservation could have depended on a motion of my hand, Iought to have held it up to save her.
-- This did not save me from more jokes, either; for a husky-voicedgentleman with a rough face, who had been eating out of asandwich-box nearly all the way, except when he had beendrinking out of a bottle, said I was like a boa-constrictor, who tookenough at one meal to last him a long time; after which he actuallybrought a rash out upon himself with boiled beef.
-- While I sat thus, looking at the fire, and seeing pictures in the red-hot coals, I almost believed that I had never been away; that Mr.and Miss Murdstone were such pictures, and would vanish whenthe fire got low; and that there was nothing real in all that Iremembered, save my mother, Peggotty, and I.
-- 'Bless and save the man,' exclaimed my aunt, sharply, 'how hetalks!Don't I know she wouldn't?
-- The Doctor, 229in the goodness of his heart, waved his hand as if to make light ofit, and save Mr. Jack Maldon from any further reminder.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Fairfax of the regiment of in-fantry, and Miss Jane Bates, had had its day of fame and pleasure, hope and interest; but nothing now remained of it, save the melancholy remembrance of him dying in ac-tion abroad of his widow sinking under consumption and grief soon afterwards and this girl.
-- It was to herself an amusing and a very welcome piece of news, as proving that Mr. Elton could not have suf-fered long; but she was sorry for Harriet: Harriet must feel it and all that she could hope was, by giving the first in-formation herself, to save her from hearing it abruptly from others.
-- Emma continued, 'I have not said, exert yourself Harriet for my sake; think less, talk less of Mr. Elton for my sake; because for your own sake rather, I would wish it to be done, for the sake of what is more important than my comfort, a habit of self-command in you, a consideration of what is your duty, an attention to propriety, an endeavour to avoid the suspicions of others, to save your health and credit, and restore your tranquil-lity.
-- I want you to save yourself from greater pain.
-- The Eltons were still talking of a vis-it from the Sucklings, and of the use to be made of their barouche-landau; and Jane Fairfax was still at her grand-mother's; and as the return of the Campbells from Ireland was again delayed, and August, instead of Midsummer, fixed for it, she was likely to remain there full two months longer, provided at least she were able to defeat Mrs. Elton's activity in her service, and save herself from being hurried into a delightful situation against her will.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Human shapes, interferences, troubles, and joys were all as if they were not, and there seemed to be on the shaded hemisphere of the globe no sentient being save himself; he could fancy them all gone round to the sunny side.
-- Even its position terrestrially is one of the elements of a new interest, and for no particular reason save that the incident of the night had occurred there Oak went again into the plantation.
-- Nothing disturbed the stillness of the cottage save the chatter of a knot of sparrows on the eaves; one might fancy scandal and rumour to be no less the staple topic of these little coteries on roofs than of those under them.
-- Her uncle was took bad, and the doctor was called with his world-wide skill; but he couldn't save the man.
-- 'A can cuss, mem, as well as you or I, but 'a can't speak a common speech to save his life."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "That was my daughter," he said, with a kind of pride in his voice, and the rest chose to consider this as the fatuity of an old man who wishes to save appearances.
-- Young men at his age take no account of obstacles nor of dangers; they see success in every direction; imagination has free play, and turns their lives into a romance; they are saddened or discouraged by the collapse of one of the visionary schemes that have no existence save in their heated fancy.
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