success是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 成就, 成功; 成功的事物, 有成就的人,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:
-- He saw himself on the morrow on the plains of the Andes, where the search would actually commence, and perhaps success was close at hand.
-- To his mind, the meeting with him was so providential, that he could not doubt now of the success of their enterprise.
-- He bounded like a bird over the dried-up CANADAS and the bushes of CURRA-MAMMEL, his loud, joyous neighing seeming to bode success to the search.
-- It was not that any one of them regretted the fatigue they had so heedlessly endured or the dangers they had run, but they felt their hope of success was gone, for there was no chance of coming across Captain Grant between the Sierra Tandil and the sea, as Sergeant Manuel must have heard if any prisoners had fallen into the hands of the Indians on the coast of the Atlantic.
-- Indeed, it even seemed after this ill success and this useless journey across America, that all chance of finding them was gone forever.
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:
-- 'One cannot always have the success for which one hopes.
-- Our success and even his life may depend upon his coming out before the fog is over the path.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such was Miss Lucas's scheme; and appearances were so favourable, that when they parted at night, she would have felt almost secure of success if he had not been to leave Hertfordshire so very soon.
-- He was anxious to avoid the notice of his cousins, from a conviction that if they saw him depart, they could not fail to conjecture his design, and he was not willing to have the attempt known till its success might be known likewise; for though feeling almost secure, and with reason, for Char- lotte had been tolerably encouraging, he was comparatively diffident since the adventure of Wednesday.
-- I know not in what manner, under what form of falsehood he had imposed on you; but his success is not perhaps to be wondered at.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I first got acquainted with the master of a ship who had been on the coast of Guinea; and who, hav-ing had very good success there, was resolved to go again.
-- I went on the next year with great success in my plantation: I raised fifty great rolls of tobacco on my own ground, more than I had disposed of for necessaries among my neighbours; and these fifty rolls, being each of above a hundredweight, were well cured, and laid by against the return of the fleet from Lisbon: and now increasing in business and wealth, my head began to be full of projects and undertakings be-yond my reach; such as are, indeed, often the ruin of the best heads in business.
-- I could give many examples of the success of this conduct in the course of my life, but more especially in the latter part of my inhab-iting this unhappy island; besides many occasions which it is very likely I might have taken notice of, if I had seen with the same eyes then that I see with now.
-- In the meantime, I in part settled myself here; for, first of all, I married, and that not either to my disadvantage or dissatisfaction, and had three children, two sons and one daughter; but my wife dying, and my nephew coming home with good success from a voyage to Spain, my inclination to go abroad, and his importunity, prevailed, and engaged me to go in his ship as a private trader to the East Indies; this was in the year 1694.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This picture, she had allowed herself to believe, might have been accidentally obtained; it might not have been Edward's gift; but a correspondence between them by letter, could subsist only under a positive engagement, could be authorised by nothing else; for a few moments, she was almost overcome her heart sunk within her, and she could hardly stand; but exertion was indispensably necessary; and she struggled so resolutely against the oppression of her feelings, that her success was speedy, and for the time complete.
-- Since the death of her husband, who had traded with success in a less elegant part of the town, she had resided every winter in a house in one of the streets near Portman Square.
-- But he judged it unnecessary: he had still something more to try, some more fresh application, of whose success he was as confident as the last, and his visit concluded with encouraging assurances which reached the ear, but could not enter the heart of Miss Dashwood.
-- Here they were interrupted by the entrance of a third person, and Elinor withdrew to think it all over in private, to wish success to her friend, and yet in wishing it, to feel a pang for Willoughby.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The entire metropolitan centre possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant, and to make the gulf between poverty and success seem both wide and deep.
-- When Carrie had returned home, flushed with her first success and ready, for all her weariness, to discuss the now interesting events which led up to her achievement, the former had merely smiled approvingly and inquired whether she would have to spend any of it for car fare.
-- He knew by name, and could greet personally with a "Well, old fellow," hundreds of actors, merchants, politicians, and the general run of successful characters about town, and it was part of his success to do so.
-- His fine success as a salesman lay in his geniality and the thoroughly reputable standing of his house.
-- Through George, Jr.'s, possible success she might draw to herself the privilege of pointing proudly.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I let you, now, be the judges of my success as a teacher of animals.
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