indignant是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 愤慨的, 义愤的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate;--whether Miss Havisham, preferring to take personal vengeance for an outrage done to her house, might rise in those grave-clothes of hers, draw a pistol, and shoot me dead:--whether suborned boys--a numerous band of mercenaries--might be engaged to fall upon me in the brewery, and cuff me until I was no more;--it was high testimony to my confidence in the spirit of the pale young gentleman, that I never imagined him accessory to these retaliations; they always came into my mind as the acts of injudicious relatives of his, goaded on by the state of his visage and an indignant sympathy with the family features.
-- When Barnwell began to go wrong, I declare that I felt positively apologetic, Pumblechook's indignant stare so taxed me with it.
-- What was my indignant surprise when he called upon the company to pledge him to "Estella!"
-- But I could not submit to be thrown off in that way, and I made a passionate, almost an indignant appeal, to him to be more frank and manly with me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Of course no,' said the gentleman, with an indignant look at the wrong half.
-- said Mrs. Pegler, with indignant pride.
-- Inappeasably indignant with her for her triumphant discovery of Mrs. Pegler, he turned this presumption, on the part of a woman in her dependent position, over and over in his mind, until it accumulated with turning like a great snowball.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My uncle was indignant at the very thought, and declared he wouldn't give a penny for a translation.
-- Had the proposition now been made to go back to the summit of Mount Sneffels, I should have declined the offer in a most indignant manner.
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 seized one day upon her own daughter, as that chip of the female block was returning from school; but the little one, instead of kissing the loving mother's hand, bit it firmly, and so re-ceived from the other hand a smack in the face which sent her reeling into the gutter: whence she was rescued by an indignant and harassed grandmother.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The stare of indignant wonder with which Young Barnacle accompanied this disclosure, would have strained his eyes injuriously but for the opportune relief of dinner.
-- Yes, there was Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle, who had risen to official heights on the wings of one indignant idea, and that was, My Lords, that I am yet to be told that it behoves a Minister of this free country to set bounds to the philanthropy, to cramp the charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the enterprise, to damp the independent self-reliance, of its people.
-- On this sublime discovery in the great art How not to do it, Lord Decimus had long sustained the highest glory of the Barnacle family; and let any ill-advised member of either House but try How to do it by bringing in a Bill to do it, that Bill was as good as dead and buried when Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle rose up in his place and solemnly said, soaring into indignant majesty as the Circumlocution cheering soared around him, that he was yet to be told, My Lords, that it behoved him as the Minister of this free country, to set bounds to the philanthropy, to cramp the charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the enterprise, to damp the independent self-reliance, of its people.
-- Having got upon his feet to emphasise his concluding words, Young John sat down again, and fell to rolling his green packet on his right leg; never taking his eyes off Clennam, but surveying him with a fixed look of indignant reproach.
-- Before Arthur could speak to him in his indignant wonder, Cavalletto followed him into the room.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All flashed indignant or appeal-ing glances at the inexorable Davis, and one passionate lime lover burst into tears.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But all in vain; the indignant gale howls louder; then, with one hand raised invokingly to God, with the other they not unreluctantly lay hold of Jonah.
-- Overhearing the indignant but half-humorous cries with which the people on deck began to drive the coffin away, Queequeg, to every one's consternation, commanded that the thing should be instantly brought to him, nor was there any denying him; seeing that, of all mortals, some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So saying, he smiled, approvingly: to calm the rising wrath of the indignant parish officer.
-- Mr. Fang was consequently not a little indignant to see an unbidden guest enter in such irreverent disorder.
-- The mandate was obeyed; and the indignant Mr. Brownlow was conveyed out, with the book in one hand, and the bamboo cane in the other: in a perfect phrenzy of rage and defiance.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The expression of his face changed gradually from indignant contempt to a composed and steady gravity.
-- Lady Catherine was extremely indignant on the mar-riage of her nephew; and as she gave way to all the genuine frankness of her character in her reply to the letter which announced its arrangement, she sent him language so very abusive, especially of Elizabeth, that for some time all intercourse was at an end.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The whole family perceived it, and Mrs. Dashwood, attributing it to some want of liberality in his mother, sat down to table indignant against all selfish parents.
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