fleshy是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 肉的,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:
-- The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue ferns.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He eyed his fair flesh over and over to see where he could best wound it, but all was protected by the goodly armour of which Hector had spoiled Patroclus after he had slain him, save only the throat where the collar-bones divide the neck from the shoulders, and this is a most deadly place: here then did Achilles strike him as he was coming on towards him, and the point of his spear went right through the fleshy part of the neck, but it did not sever his windpipe so that he could still speak.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The weather had become worse than ever towards evening; the hail lashed the drenched mare so cruelly that she went along sideways, shaking her head and ears; but Levin was all right under his hood, and he looked cheerfully about him at the muddy streams running under the wheels, at the drops hanging on every bare twig, at the whiteness of the patch of unmelted hailstones on the planks of the bridge, at the thick layer of still juicy, fleshy leaves that lay heaped up about the stripped elm-tree.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- shouted one of them, a young thick-necked peasant with a fleshy face red as a carrot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At everyquestion he gave me a fleshy cut with it that made me writhe; so Iwas very soon made free of Salem House (as Steerforth said), andwas very soon in tears also.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It hurled itself against the fleshy mass, passing through from one part to the other, leaving behind it two quivering halves of the animal.
-- A formidable explosion could not have divided and torn this fleshy mass with more violence.
-- Amongst the cartilaginous ones, petromyzons-pricka, a sort of eel, fifteen inches long, with a greenish head, violet fins, grey-blue back, brown belly, silvered and sown with bright spots, the pupil of the eye encircled with gold a curious animal, that the current of the Amazon had drawn to the sea, for they inhabit fresh waters tuberculated streaks, with pointed snouts, and a long loose tail, armed with a long jagged sting; little sharks, a yard long, grey and whitish skin, and several rows of teeth, bent back, that are generally known by the name of pantouffles; vespertilios, a kind of red isosceles triangle, half a yard long, to which pectorals are attached by fleshy prolongations that make them look like bats, but that their horny appendage, situated near the nostrils, has given them the name of sea-unicorns; lastly, some species of balistae, the curassavian, whose spots were of a brilliant gold colour, and the capriscus of clear violet, and with varying shades like a pigeon's throat.
-- I end here this catalogue, which is somewhat dry perhaps, but very exact, with a series of bony fish that I observed in passing belonging to the apteronotes, and whose snout is white as snow, the body of a beautiful black, marked with a very long loose fleshy strip; odontognathes, armed with spikes; sardines nine inches long, glittering with a bright silver light; a species of mackerel provided with two anal fins; centronotes of a blackish tint, that are fished for with torches, long fish, two yards in length, with fat flesh, white and firm, which, when they arc fresh, taste like eel, and when dry, like smoked salmon; labres, half red, covered with scales only at the bottom of the dorsal and anal fins; chrysoptera, on which gold and silver blend their brightness with that of the ruby and topaz; golden-tailed spares, the flesh of which is extremely delicate, and whose phosphorescent properties betray them in the midst of the waters; orange-coloured spares with long tongues; maigres, with gold caudal fins, dark thorn-tails, anableps of Surinam, etc.
-- What a freak of nature, a bird's beak on a mollusc!Its spindle-like body formed a fleshy mass that might weigh 4,000 to 5,000 lb.
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:
-- But she could feel their turgid fleshy structure as in a sensuous vision, she knew how they rose out of the mud, she knew how they thrust out from themselves, how they stood stiff and succulent against the air.
-- Your spiritual brides can't give you what you want, they aren't common and fleshy enough for you, aren't they?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To be sure, in cold weather you may carry your house aloft with you, in the shape of a watch-coat; but properly speaking the thickest watch-coat is no more of a house than the unclad body; for as the soul is glued inside of its fleshy tabernacle, and cannot freely move about in it, nor even move out of it, without running great risk of perishing (like an ignorant pilgrim crossing the snowy Alps in winter); so a watch-coat is not so much of a house as it is a mere envelope, or additional skin encasing you.
-- But all these are permanently lodged in their fleshy covering, as the human fingers in an artificial covering.
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