example是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 例子, 实例; 模范, 榜样,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Scrooge's nephew revelled in another laugh, and as it was impossible to keep the infection off; though the plump sister tried hard to do it with aromatic vinegar; his example was unanimously followed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That, the lofty example of this immacu-late and unimpeachable witness for the Crown, to refer to whom however unworthily was an honour, had communi-cated itself to the prisoner's servant, and had engendered in him a holy determination to examine his master's table-drawers and pockets, and secrete his papers.
-- Monseigneur (often a most worthy individual gentle-man) was a national blessing, gave a chivalrous tone to things, was a polite example of luxurious and shining fife, 322 A tale of two citiesand a great deal more to equal purpose; nevertheless, Mon-seigneur as a class had, somehow or other, brought things to this.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Kitty felt that in her, in her manner of life, she would find an example of what she was now so painfully seeking: interest in life, a dignity in life--apart from the worldly relations of girls with men, which so revolted Kitty, and appeared to her now as a shameful hawking about of goods in search of a purchaser.
-- Passing in mental review all the instances he knew of divorces (there were plenty of them in the very highest society with which he was very familiar), Alexey Alexandrovitch could not find a single example in which the object of divorce was that which he had in view.
-- It happened that the famous Commission of the 2nd of June had set on foot an inquiry into the irrigation of lands in the Zaraisky province, which fell under Alexey Alexandrovitch's department, and was a glaring example of fruitless expenditure and paper reforms.
-- "Yes, I imagine that this will be the solitary example of a properly fitted hospital in Russia," said Sviazhsky.
-- Whether he was uncomfortable that he, a descendant of Rurik, Prince Oblonsky, had been kept for two hours waiting to see a Jew, or that for the first time in his life he was not following the example of his ancestors in serving the government, but was turning off into a new career, anyway he was very uncomfortable.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pickerbaugh answered with theology, violence, and the example of his own eight beauties.
-- I suppose I am a bad example for others, giving up so easily.
-- None of these novelties was so stirring as the Eugenic Family, who had volunteered to give, for a mere forty dollars a day, an example of the benefits of healthful practices.
-- She was placidly astonished when he clumped away with none of the obedient reverence which any example of cultured American womanhood has a right to expect from all males, even foreigners.
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:
-- To take an example near home that old woman murdered in our district.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Turning over, as we are about to turn over, an entirelynew leaf, and falling back, as we are now in the act of falling back,for a Spring of no common magnitude; it is important to my senseof self-respect, besides being an example to my son, that thesearrangements should be concluded as between man and man.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Tell your aunt, little Emma, that she ought to set you a better example than to be renewing old grievances, and that if she were not wrong before, she is now.'
-- 'I am not supposing him at all an unnatural creature, in suspecting that he may have learnt to be above his con-nexions, and to care very little for any thing but his own pleasure, from living with those who have always set him the example of it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- (Calling one's self merely Somebody, without giving a name, is not to be taken as an example of the ill-breeding of the rural world: it springs from a refined modesty, of which townspeople, with their cards and announcements, have no notion whatever.)
-- So earnest and yet so wrong-headed was this young dog (he had no name in particular, and answered with perfect readiness to any pleasant interjection), that if sent behind the flock to help them on, he did it so thoroughly that he would have chased them across the whole county with the greatest pleasure if not called off or reminded when to stop by the example of old George.
-- More fevered now by a reaction from the first feelings which Oak's example had raised in her, she paused in the hall, looking at the door of the room wherein Fanny lay.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Vicomte de Beauseant, therefore, had himself set an example to the rest of the world by 莽卢卢32 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 respecting, with as good a grace as might be, this morganatic union.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The gluttony of Swine is put before us, as an example to the young."
-- And if you come here bothering about your Bill, I'll make an example of both your Bill and you, and let him slip through my fingers.
-- "Now, I warned you before," said he, throwing his forefinger at the terrified client, "that if you ever presumed to talk in that way here, I'd make an example of you.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yahoo as I am, it is well known through all Houyhnhnmland, that, by the instructions and example of my illustrious master, I was able in the compass of two years (although I confess with the utmost difficulty) to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving, and equivocating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species; especially the Europeans.
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