know是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 知道, 了解; 认识; 识别vi. 知道, 了解,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I know 'tas sperits.
-- So much we know from what was heard at the time and from what was subsequently seen in the room.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I lay across one of the thwarts for I know not how long, thinking that if I had the strength I would drink sea-water and madden myself to die quickly.
-- You know the kind of man, calls the thing the 'Ipecacuanha,' of all silly, infer-nal names; though when there's much of a sea without any wind, she certainly acts according.'
-- 'But,' said he with a momentary hesitation, 'you know I'm dying to hear of how you came to be alone in that boat.
-- I did not know then that a reddish lumi-nosity, at least, is not uncommon in human eyes.
-- 'Montgomery says you are an educated man, Mr. Prendick; says you know something of science.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Akela from his rock would cry: 'Ye know the Law ye know the Law.
-- 'Ay, roar well,' said Bagheera, under his whiskers, 'for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man.'
-- And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.
-- Baloo knows it; I know it; the Pack know it; and even the foolish, foolish deer know.
-- 'I did not know these things,' said Mowgli sullenly, and he frowned under his heavy black eyebrows.
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:
-- 'You know him, Duncan, or you would not trust yourself so freely to his keeping?'
-- I do know him, or he would not have my confidence, and least of all at this moment.
-- The first point to be obtained is to know one's own mind.
-- 'I know not what you call my bass,' said Heyward, piqued at her remark, 'but I know that your safety, and that of Cora, is far dearer to me than could be any orchestra of Handel's music.'
-- In this manner, pools and ponds, and even the great fresh-water lakes, may be stagnant, as you and I both know they are, having seen them; but when you come to spread water over a great tract, like the sea, where the earth is round, how in reason can the water be quiet?
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
-- I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won.
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:
-- I admire their polish their youth is already so accomplished that it seems absurd to speak of promise I marvel at the felicity of their style; but with all their copiousness (their vocabulary suggests that they fingered Roget's Thesaurus in their cradles) they say nothing to me: to my mind they know too much and feel too obviously; I cannot stomach the heartiness with which they slap me on the back or the emotion with which they hurl themselves on my bosom; their passion seems to me a little anaemic and their dreams a trifle dull.
-- When she came to know writers it was like adventuring upon a stage which till then she had known only from the other side of the footlights.
-- "I don't know that he's very clever," she said one day, when I was looking at the photograph, "but I know he's good.
-- He was bigger than I expected: I do not know why I had imagined him slender and of insignificant appearance; in point of fact he was broad and heavy, with large hands and feet, and he wore his evening clothes clumsily.
-- I do not know that there was anything about them to excite the attention of the curious.
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