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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Father Goriot had scarcely time to start back and save himself.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Heaven shower down blessings on you, and save me, that I may again and again testify my gratitude for all your love and kindness.
-- Oh, save me!Save me!'
-- All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment; I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself -unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.
-- 'As soon as I was convinced that no assistance could save any part of the habitation, I quitted the scene and sought for refuge in the woods.
-- Yet even thus I loved them to adoration; and to save them, I resolved to dedicate myself to my most abhorred task.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He has to talk around in circles till Ma gets so confused that she givesup and tells him to save his voice for his law practice.
-- So, to save the feelings of all and to bring the Troop up tofull strength, Scarlett's father, John Wilkes, Buck Munroe, Jim Tarleton, Hugh Calvert, in fact every large planter inthe County with the one exception of Angus Macintosh, had contributed money to completely outfit the Troop, horseand man.
-- His two oldest brothers, Jamesand Andrew, he hardly remembered, save as close-lipped youths who came and went at odd hours of the night onmysterious errands or disappeared for weeks at a time, to their mother's gnawing anxiety.
-- He knew no poetry save that of Moore and no music except the songs of Ireland that hadcome down through the years.
-- To save her life,she couldn't make up her mind about anything, so Peter makes it up for her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more.
-- There was nothing against him, save the quarrel; and my sister had quarrelled with him, and with everybody else about her, ten thousand times.
-- It would all come out in good time, I observed, and in the meanwhile nothing was to be said, save that I had come into great expectations from a mysterious patron.
-- You get at your mouth better (which after all is the object), and you save a good deal of the attitude of opening oysters, on the part of the right elbow."
-- "Are infants to be nut-crackered into their tombs, and is nobody to save them?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I will give you my horse, and you shall give me the silver; which will save you a great deal of trouble in carrying such a heavy load about with you.'
-- However, the king hoped still to save his dear child alto-gether from the threatened evil; so he ordered that all the spindles in the kingdom should be bought up and burnt.
-- If I did not take pity on you and save you, you would be lost.'
-- 'This time nothing will save thee,' said the queen; and she went home to her glass, and at last it said: 'Thou, queen, art the fairest of all the fair.'
-- 222 Grimms' Fairy Tales THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER here was once a shoemaker, who worked very hard and Twas very honest: but still he could not earn enough to live upon; and at last all he had in the world was gone, save just leather enough to make one pair of shoes.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I desired the queen's 154 Gulliver's Travelswoman to save for me the combings of her majesty's hair, whereof in time I got a good quantity; and consulting with my friend the cabinet-maker, who had received general or-ders to do little jobs for me, I directed him to make two chair-frames, no larger than those I had in my box, and to bore little holes with a fine awl, round those parts where I designed the backs and seats; through these holes I wove the strongest hairs I could pick out, just after the manner of cane chairs in England.
-- In another apartment I was highly pleased with a projec-tor who had found a device of ploughing the ground with hogs, to save the charges of ploughs, cattle, and labour.
-- 'In the trial of persons accused for crimes against the state, the method is much more short and commendable: the judge first sends to sound the disposition of those in power, after which he can easily hang or save a criminal, strictly preserving all due forms of law.'
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