essential是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 本质(的) , 必要(的),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:
-- If I had not every confidence in your nerve and courage I would not suggest it, but it is essential that you should do it.'
-- 'It was very essential for Stapleton to get some article of Sir Henry's attire so that, in case he was driven to use the dog, he might always have the means of setting him upon his track.
-- I do not know that anything essential has been left unexplained.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The presence of the secretary as an intermediary was, he judged, essential in this case.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the essential phase was to place the transparent object whose refractive index was to be lowered between two radiating centres of a sort of ethereal vibration, of which I will tell you more fully later.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So that this narra-tive is without confirmation in its most essential particular.
-- The substance of the chapter entitled 'Doctor Moreau explains,' which contains the essential idea of the story, appeared as a middle article in the 'Saturday Review' in January, 1895.
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:
-- Then, holding the brand, he crossed a deep, narrow chasm in the rocks which ran at right angles with the passage they were in, but which, unlike that, was open to the heavens, and en-tered another cave, answering to the description of the first, in every essential particular.
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:
-- That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, when they were once past the pay-place and tearing away for very life with their checks in their hands, and, above all, when they were fairly in the theatre, and seated in such places that they couldn't have had better if they had picked them out, and taken them beforehand, all this was looked upon as quite a capital joke, and an essential part of the entertainment.
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:
-- But it is essential that you should get your full amount of sunshine, sun-shine and pyjamas, as the advertisements of the Lido say.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Snuggery had two of the qualities popularly held to be essential to grog for ladies, in respect that it was hot and strong; but in the third point of analogy, requiring plenty of it, the Snuggery was defective; being but a cooped-up apartment.
-- If a gentlemanly residence coming strictly within this narrow margin had not been essential to the blood of the Barnacles, this particular branch would have had a pretty wide selection among, let us say, ten thousand houses, offering fifty times the accommodation for a third of the money.
-- 'There is very little to tell,' said Mrs Merdle, reviewing the breadth of bosom which seemed essential to her having room enough to be unfeeling in, 'but it is to your sister's credit.
-- Three or four days of steady application tendered him master of all the facts it was essential to become acquainted with.
-- The execution of this trust occupied Mrs General about seven years, in the course of which time she made the tour of Europe, and saw most of that extensive miscellany of objects which it is essential that all persons of polite cultivation should see with other people's eyes, and never with their own.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Much might be ruminated here, concerning the essential dignity of this regal process, because in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing.
-- The baleen, hump, back-fin, and teeth; these are things whose peculiarities are indiscriminately dispersed among all sorts of whales, without any regard to what may be the nature of their structure in other and more essential particulars.
-- Nor would difference of country make any very essential difference; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As Oliver accompanied his master in most of his adult expeditions too, in order that he might acquire that equanimity of demeanour and full command of nerve which was essential to a finished undertaker, he had many opportunities of observing the beautiful resignation and fortitude with which some strong-minded people bear their trials and losses.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If there were anyone that one could apply to with a probability of gaining such a clue as that, it might be of essential consequence.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I acquit Edward of essential misconduct.
-- The Dashwoods were two days on the road, and Marianne bore her journey on both, without essential fatigue.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Applause there was, and publicity--once far off, essential things, but now grown trivial and indifferent.
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