finish是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 完成; 结束; 磨光v. 完成; 结束; 用完; 毁掉,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Oh!would that Robert were dashed to pieces against the rocks, rather than be a—"He did not finish his sentence, but seizing Wilson's carbine, took aim at the condor.
-- Chiefs of high position may be known by the finish and precision and truth of the design, which sometimes covers their whole bodies with the figures of animals.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We mustn't forget to finish off that matter ' The general left the room, and the prince never succeed-ed in broaching the business which he had on hand, though he had endeavoured to do so four times.
-- The prince paused and all waited, expecting him to go on again and finish the story.
-- 'Ardalion Alexandrovitch Ivolgin,' said the smiling general, with a low bow of great dignity, 'an old soldier, un-fortunate, and the father of this family; but happy in the hope of including in that family so exquisite ' He did not finish his sentence, for at this moment Fer-dishenko pushed a chair up from behind, and the general, not very firm on his legs, at this post-prandial hour, flopped into it backwards.
-- And you'd have loved your money so that you'd amass not two million, like him, but ten million; and you'd have died of hunger on your money bags to finish up with, for you carry everything to extremes.'
-- 'Why don't you finish your sentence?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Why don't you finish and go?"
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:
-- If to this be added the fact that, in con-sequence of the ex parte application of the spur, one side of the mare appeared to journey faster than the other; and that the aggrieved flank was resolutely indicated by unremitted flourishes of a bushy tail, we finish the picture of both horse and man.
-- 'Twas done with Indian skill,' said the scout laughing in-wardly, but with vast satisfaction; 'and 'twas a pretty sight to behold!Though an arrow is a near shot, and needs a knife to finish the work.'
-- These Iroquois are cun-ning, but they outwitted themselves when they placed their firearms out of reach; and had Uncas or his father been gifted with only their common Indian patience, we should have come in upon the knaves with three bullets instead of one, and that would have made a finish of the whole pack; yon loping varlet, as well as his commerades.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Besides, there is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap and turn themselves in their graves, before their surviving friends have travelled away from the neighborhood; so that when they turn out at night to walk their rounds, they have no ac-quaintance left to call upon.
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:
-- "Some day, when my daughter is married and my son has a wife and is able to take my place on the island, we shall go back and finish our days in the old house in which I was born."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "By that lazy balloon which is left there doing nothing, and which looks to me as if it was waiting on purpose for us " There was no necessity for the sailor to finish his sentence.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'What you ask,' said Elizabeth, 'is no sacrifice on my side; and Mr. Darcy had much better finish his letter.'
-- Mr. Darcy took her advice, and did finish his letter.
-- But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters re-maining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane's week, could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These I set up to dry within my circle or hedge, and when they were fit for use I carried them to my cave; and here, during the next season, I employed myself in making, as well as I could, a great many baskets, both to carry earth or to carry or lay up anything, as I had occasion; and though I did not finish them very handsomely, yet I made them sufficiently serviceable for my purpose; thus, afterwards, I took care never to be without them; and as my wicker-ware decayed, I made more, espe-cially strong, deep baskets to place my corn in, instead of sacks, when I should come to have any quantity of it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I am glad," said Lady Middleton to Lucy, "you are not going to finish poor little Annamaria's basket this evening; for I am sure it must hurt your eyes to work filigree by candlelight.
-- I would not disappoint the little angel for all the world: and if you want me at the card-table now, I am resolved to finish the basket after supper."
-- "Perhaps," continued Elinor, "if I should happen to cut out, I may be of some use to Miss Lucy Steele, in rolling her papers for her; and there is so much still to be done to the basket, that it must be impossible I think for her labour singly, to finish it this evening.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The one thing was to finish this strange pilgrimage.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He'd got all that coat of arms business fixed, so now he started in to finish up the rest of that part of the work, which was to plan out a mournful inscrip- tion said Jim got to have one, like they all done.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- More wood was needed to finish cooking it.
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