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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My friend was in excellent spirits over the success which had attended a succession of difficult and important cases, so that I was able to induce him to discuss the details of the Baskerville mystery.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His healthy appearance, good colour, sound, though discoloured teeth, sturdy figure, preoccupied air during business hours, and jolly good humour during his game at cards in the evening, all bore witness to his success in life, and combined to make existence a bed of roses to his excellency.
-- Totski muttered to himself: 'He may be an idiot, but he knows that flattery is the best road to success here.'
-- Colia was indelicate enough to voice the delight he felt at his success in manag-ing to annoy Lizabetha Prokofievna, with whom, in spite of their really amicable relations, he was constantly sparring.
-- However, of course you value the memory of the deceased so very highly; and he certainly was the kindest of men; to which fact, by the way, I ascribe, more than to anything else, the success of the abbot in influencing his religious convictions.
-- The evidence of the porter went further than anything else towards the success of Lebedeff in gaining the assis-tance of the police.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We do not yet know how things are going to be, nor whether the Achaeans are to return with good success or evil.
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:
-- The scout delayed his departure to speak to the generous girl, whose breathing became lighter as she saw the success of her remonstrance.
-- Contrary to the usages of the natives in the wantonness of their success they had respected, not only the persons of the trembling sisters, but his own.
-- Then the voice of the speaker fell, and lost the loud, animated tones of triumph with which he had enu-merated their deeds of success and victory.
-- During the foregoing address the progress of the speaker was too plainly read by those most interested in his success through the medium of the countenances of the men he addressed.
-- The young Mohican darted away at the suggestion, and the scout had hardly done speaking, before the former raised a cry of success from the margin of the forest.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was so efficient that it was certain she would make a success of the adventure.
-- She had made a success of her business, and now had an office in Chancery Lane; she did little typing herself, but spent her time correcting the work of the four girls she employed.
-- An effective story might also have been made by bringing him into contact with some old painter whom the pressure of want or the desire for commercial success had made false to the genius of his youth, and who, seeing in Strickland the possibilities which himself had wasted, influenced him to forsake all and follow the divine tyranny of art.
-- Is to do what you most want, to live under the conditions that please you, in peace with yourself, to make a hash of life; and is it success to be an eminent surgeon with ten thousand a year and a beautiful wife?
-- "It is obvious that to lead such an existence and make so great a success of it, you must both have needed a strong will and a determined character."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Learned, clear-headed, and practical, he fulfilled in all emergencies those three conditions which united ought to insure human success activity of mind and body, impetuous wishes, and powerful will.
-- There they both waited patiently; though, it must be said, that Herbert did not reckon much on the success of the inventive Pencroft.
-- Cyrus Harding had nothing but the two steel blades from Top's collar, and yet he was so clever, and his companions aided him with so much intelligence, that three days afterwards the little colony's stock of tools was augmented by a blowing-machine, destined to inject the air into the midst of the ore when it should be subjected to heat an indispensable condition to the success of the operation.
-- It was as much a success as the first, and yielded the number of grains which had been predicted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The success of this manoeuvre tickled Mr Quilp beyond description, and he laughed and stamped upon the ground as at a most irresistible jest.
-- 'Gentlemen, I'll give you, if you please, Success to the ancient family of the Swivellers, and good luck to Mr Richard in particular Mr Richard, gentlemen,' said Dick with great emphasis, 'who spends all his money on his friends and is Bah!
-- Having expended his treasure in such purchases as he knew would be most acceptable at home, not forgetting some seed for the wonderful bird, he hastened back as fast as he could, so elated with his success and great good fortune, that he more than half expected Nell and the old man would have arrived before him.
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