virgin是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 处女a. 处女的; 纯洁的; 原始的; 未使用的,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The several schools of the old masters were represented by a Madonna of Raphael, a Virgin of Leonardo da Vinci, a nymph of Corregio, a woman of Titan, an Adoration of Veronese, an Assumption of Murillo, a portrait of Holbein, a monk of Velasquez, a martyr of Ribera, a fair of Rubens, two Flemish landscapes of Teniers, three little "genre" pictures of Gerard Dow, Metsu, and Paul Potter, two specimens of Gericault and Prudhon, and some sea-pieces of Backhuysen and Vernet.
-- The most beautiful are called virgin pearls, or paragons.
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 both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of Hebe.
-- Gerald, who had now got the dance perfectly, was dancing again with the younger of the Professor's daughters, who was almost dying of virgin excitement, because she thought Gerald so handsome, so superb.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He awoke in the morning, much refreshed; and having taken half an hour's exercise at the flute, and graciously received a notice to quit from his landlady, who had been in waiting on the stairs for that purpose since the dawn of day, repaired to Bevis Marks; where the beautiful Sally was already at her post, bearing in her looks a radiance, mild as that which beameth from the virgin moon.
-- The beautiful virgin took another pinch, and put the snuff-box in her pocket; still looking at her brother with perfect composure.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The dark, smooth, resplendent head; the white dress with folds clinging to her graceful bust and undulating breast; those vermilion cheeks, those brilliant black eyes, and two main traits in all her being: the virgin purity of her love, not only for himself, but for everything and everybody--he knew it--not only the good and beautiful, but even that beggar whom she had kissed.
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