wherein是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adv. 在何处,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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Shall our counsels be flung into the fire, with our drink-of-ferings and the right hands of fellowship wherein we have put our trust?
-- Nine whole nights did they set a guard over me taking it in turns to watch, and they kept a fire always burning, both in the cloister of the outer court and in the inner court at the doors of the room wherein I lay; but when the darkness of the tenth night came, I broke through the closed doors of my room, and climbed the wall of the out-er court after passing quickly and unperceived through the men on guard and the women servants.
-- I made sure the Argive heroes could not withstand us, whereas like slim-waist-ed wasps, or bees that have their nests in the rocks by the wayside they leave not the holes wherein they have built undefended, but fight for their little ones against all who would take them even so these men, though they be but two, will not be driven from the gates, but stand firm either to slay or be slain.'
-- She gave the girdle to Juno and said, 'Take this girdle wherein all my charms reside and lay it in your bosom.
-- Therefore, perish strife both from among gods and men, and anger, wherein even a righteous man will harden his heart which rises up in the soul of a man like smoke, and the taste thereof is sweeter than drops of honey.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And so saying Mrs Jarley produced another announcement, wherein it was stated, that, in consequence of numerous inquiries at the wax-work door, and in consequence of crowds having been disappointed in obtaining admission, the Exhibition would be continued for one week longer, and would re-open next day.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I know wherein we made the mistake."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then wherein does life centre, for you?"
-- There was a moment's pause, wherein Gudrun made evident all her refutation of Hermione's persistence.
-- There was a silence, wherein she wanted to cry.
-- There was a silence, wherein he ate biscuits rapidly, as a rabbit eats leaves.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have been, in all my circumstances, a memento to those who are touched with the general plague of mankind, whence, for aught I know, one half of their miseries flow: I mean that of not being satisfied with the station wherein God and Nature hath placed them - for, not to look back upon my primitive condition, and the excellent advice of my father, the opposition to which was, as I may call it, my ORIGINAL SIN, my subsequent mistakes of the same kind had been the means of my coming into this miserable con-dition; for had that Providence which so happily seated me at the Brazils as a planter blessed me with confined desires, and I could have been contented to have gone on gradually, I might have been by this time - I mean in the time of my being in this island - one of the most considerable planters in the Brazils - nay, I am persuaded, that by the improve-ments I had made in that little time I lived there, and the increase I should probably have made if I had remained, I might have been worth a hundred thousand moidores - and what business had I to leave a settled fortune, a well-stocked plantation, improving and increasing, to turn supercargo to Guinea to fetch negroes, when patience and time would have so increased our stock at home, that we could have bought them at our own door from those whose business it was to fetch them?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But now see wherein the parallel changes.
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