wooden是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 木制的; 呆笨的,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the morning came the fox again and met him as he was beginning his journey, and said, 'Go straight forward, till you come to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers fast asleep and snoring: take no notice of them, but go into the castle and pass on and on till you come to a room, where the gold-en bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shab-by cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.'
-- Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below stood the golden cage, and the three golden apples that had been lost were lying close by it.
-- Then they brought him a wooden bowl for a few half-pence, out of which he had to eat.
-- One day he said to her: 'Listen, I have a good idea, there is our gossip the carpenter, he shall make us a wooden calf, and paint it brown, so that it looks like any other, and in time it will certainly get big and be a cow.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This man was a most ingenious 126 Gulliver's Travelsartist, and according to my direction, in three weeks fin-ished for me a wooden chamber of sixteen feet square, and twelve high, with sash-windows, a door, and two closets, like a London bed-chamber.
-- There was a fellow with a wen in his neck, larger than five wool-packs; and another, with 136 Gulliver's Travelsa couple of wooden legs, each about twenty feet high.
-- She ordered the joiner to make a wooden trough of three hundred feet long, fifty broad, and eight deep; which, being well pitched, to pre-vent leaking, was placed on the floor, along the wall, in an outer room of the palace.
-- The queen's joiner had contrived in one of Glumdalclitch's rooms, a kind of wooden machine five-and-twenty feet high, formed like a standing ladder; the steps were each fifty feet long.
-- He entertained me with great kindness, observing me not to look wildly, or talk inconsistently: and, when we were left alone, desired I would give him a relation of my travels, and by what accident I came to be set adrift, in that monstrous wooden chest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The clashing and banging band attached to the horse-riding establishment, which had there set up its rest in a wooden pavilion, was in full bray.
-- The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.
-- So the day came, as all other days come to people who will only stick to reason; and when it came, there were married in the church of the florid wooden legs that popular order of architecture Josiah Bounderby Esquire of Coketown, to Louisa eldest daughter of Thomas Gradgrind Esquire of Stone Lodge, M.P.
-- An overcast September evening, just at nightfall, saw beneath its drooping eyelids Mrs. Sparsit glide out of her carriage, pass down the wooden steps of the little station into a stony road, cross it into a green lane, and become hidden in a summer-growth of leaves and branches.
-- She went by the way Mrs. Sparsit had come, emerged from the green lane, crossed the stony road, and ascended the wooden steps to the railroad.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In this street the merchants and traders live in wooden huts made with beams of wood, painted red--mere log huts, such as you find in the wilds of America.
-- The bedding was composed of dry hay thrown into two long red wooden boxes, ornamented with sentences painted in Icelandic.
-- We were subjected to the most violent shocks, whenever our sole dependence, a frail wooden raft, struck against the rocky sides of the channel.
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:
-- She sat down on a wooden chair, in the sunlight by the door.
-- She sat in the wooden arm-chair by the fire.
-- She came downstairs, down the steep, narrow wooden stairs.
-- She crept in sheer misery through the holly and through the wooden fence, stumbled down the little ditch and up into the lane, where Hilda was just getting out of the car in vexation.
-- Great puddingy thighs in black pud-ding-cloth, or lean wooden sticks in black funeral stuff, or well-shaped young legs without any meaning whatever, ei-ther sensuality or tenderness or sensitiveness, just mere leggy ordinariness that pranced around.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The staircase was as wooden and solid as need be, and Affery went straight down it without any of those deviations peculiar to dreams.
-- 'Or p'raps,' said the turnkey, offering his suggestions from the the top of his well-worn wooden stool, as he might have offered them to a child for whose weakness he felt a compassion, 'p'raps she'll get her brother, or her sister, to come along with her.'
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