appearance是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 出现, 露面; 外表; (在会议等) 作短暂露面,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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I resolved in my minds the events which I had until now sought to forget: the whole train of my prog-ress toward the creation; the appearance of the works of my own hands at my bedside; its departure.
-- The appearance of Justine was calm.
-- She was tranquil, yet her tranquillity was evi-dently constrained; and as her confusion had before been adduced as a proof of her guilt, she worked up her mind to an appearance of courage.
-- No one could love a child more than I loved your brother' tears came into his eyes as he spoke 'but is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Scarlett knew these hurriedpreenings were being made with an eye toward meeting his wife with the appearance of a gentleman who had riddensedately home from a call on a neighbor.
-- She was a tiny, frailly built girl, who gave the appearance of a child masquerading in her mother's enormous hoopskirts an illusion that was heightened by the shy, almost frightened look in her too large brown eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her chest had dropped, so that she stooped; and her voice had dropped, so that she spoke low, and with a dead lull upon her; altogether, she had the appearance of having dropped body and soul, within and without, under the weight of a crushing blow.
-- "Well," said Joe, with the same appearance of profound cogitation, "he is not--no, not to deceive you, he is not--my nevvy."
-- Thus, you were to hammer boys round--Old Clem!With a thump and a sound--Old Clem!Beat it out, beat it out--Old Clem!With a clink for the stout--Old Clem!Blow the fire, blow the fire--Old Clem!Roaring dryer, soaring higher--Old Clem!One day soon after the appearance of the chair, Miss Havisham suddenly saying to me, with the impatient movement of her fingers, "There, there, there!Sing!"
-- She mayn't have know'd," added Joe, with an appearance of reflection, "whether it were Joe, or Jorge."
-- It might," said the servile Pumblechook, putting down his untasted glass in a hurry and getting up again, "to a common person, have the appearance of repeating--but may I--?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was extremely curious to know 'from what part of the country I came, and how I was taught to imitate a rational creature; because the Yahoos (whom he saw I exactly resembled in my head, hands, and face, that were only visible), with some appearance of cunning, and the strongest disposition to mischief, were observed to be the most unteachable of all brutes.'
-- That a weak diseased body, a meagre countenance, and sallow complexion, are the true marks of noble blood; and a healthy robust appearance is so disgraceful in a man of quality, that the world concludes his real father to have been a groom or a coachman.
-- Neither was the hair of this brute of a red colour (which might have been some excuse for an appetite a little irregular), but black as a sloe, and her coun-tenance did not make an appearance altogether so hideous as the rest of her kind; for I think she could not be above eleven years old.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start.
-- Upon this, the whole appearance before him and around him changed, and nothing was left as it had been, but himself and the clergyman.
-- Now, this gentleman had a younger brother of still better appearance than himself, who had tried life as a Cornet of Dragoons, and found it a bore; and had afterwards tried it in the train of an English minister abroad, and found it a bore; and had then strolled to Jerusalem, and got bored there; and had then gone yachting about the world, and got bored everywhere.
-- 'Candidly to confess everything that has occurred to me,' said James Harthouse, again gliding with the same appearance of effort into his more airy manner; 'I will confide to you my doubt whether he has had many advantages.
-- 'You have a suspicious appearance of inscribing some fair creature's on the bark, Tom.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was nothing indolent about him, but his appearance spoke of tranquillity.
-- Judging from his appearance I should have been a long time before I had suspected him to be what he was, a mighty hunter.
-- As we advanced, the deserted appearance increased, and yet now and then we could see human shadows flitting in the distance.
-- This extraordinary and curious island must have made its appearance from out of the great world of waters at a comparatively recent date.
-- It was to all appearance taking us back to the surface of the earth.
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