piece是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. (一) 件/片/篇; 碎片v. (together) 拼合, 拼凑,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《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You may cut the piece out with your penknife if you like, Tom.
-- There had been so little communication between these two both because life at Stone Lodge went monotonously round like a piece of machinery which discouraged human interference, and because of the prohibition relative to Sissy's past career that they were still almost strangers.
-- At about this point, Mr. Gradgrind's eye would fall upon her; and under the influence of that wintry piece of fact, she would become torpid again.
-- In the hardest working part of Coketown; in the innermost fortifications of that ugly citadel, where Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in; at the heart of the labyrinth of narrow courts upon courts, and close streets upon streets, which had come into existence piecemeal, every piece in a violent hurry for some one man's purpose, and the whole an unnatural family, shouldering, and trampling, and pressing one another to death; in the last close nook of this great exhausted receiver, where the chimneys, for want of air to make a draught, were built in an immense variety of stunted and crooked shapes, as though every house put out a sign of the kind of people who might be expected to be born in it; among the multitude of Coketown, generically called 'the Hands,' a race who would have found more favour with some people, if Providence had seen fit to make them only hands, or, like the lower creatures of the seashore, only hands and stomachs lived a certain Stephen Blackpool, forty years of age.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The lines shown here are an exact facsimile of what was written on the venerable piece of parchment--and have wonderful importance, as they induced my uncle to undertake the most wonderful series of adventures which ever fell to the lot of human beings.
-- For the sake of poring over this musty old piece of parchment, my uncle forbore to share our meal.
-- Their costume consists of a coarse capote of black wool, known in Scandinavian countries as the "vadmel," a broad-brimmed hat, trousers of red serge, and a piece of leather tied with strings for a shoe--a coarse kind of moccasin.
-- The piece of wood, after having disappeared for a moment, came to the surface, and floated about with the oscillation produced by wind and tide.
-- The bait he used was a small piece of meat, by means of which he concealed his hook.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On the contrary, he was burningly, poignantly grateful for a piece of natu-ral, spontaneous kindness: almost to tears.
-- And you and I can do that together...don't you think?...if we adapt our-selves to the necessities, and at the same time weave the adaptation together into a piece with our steadily-lived life.
-- She was stunned by this unexpected piece of brutality, at the moment when she was glowing with a sort of pleasure beyond words, and a sort of love for him.
-- Connie only half heard this piece of novel, masculine in-formation.
-- The sun shone into the bare room, which still smelled of a mutton chop, done in a dutch oven before the fire, be-cause the dutch oven still stood on the fender, with the black potato-saucepan on a piece of paper, beside it on the white hearth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was the dreary Sunday of his childhood, when he sat with his hands before him, scared out of his senses by a horrible tract which commenced business with the poor child by asking him in its title, why he was going to Perdition? a piece of curiosity that he really, in a frock and drawers, was not in a condition to satisfy and which, for the further attraction of his infant mind, had a parenthesis in every other line with some such hiccupping reference as 2 Ep.
-- A piece of red cloth with which that phantom had been stiffened in its lifetime was now laid bare, and poked itself up, at the back of the old man's neck, into a confusion of grey hair and rusty stock and buckle which altogether nearly poked his hat off.
-- On my taking notice of its rich colour, he showed me a piece of paper round it, on which was written, "For the Father of the Marshalsea," and presented it to me.
-- Amy opened a drawer in an old piece of furniture that was a chest of drawers above and a bedstead below, and produced two little bundles, which she handed to her brother and sister.
-- This touch and go young Barnacle had 'got up' the Department in a private secretaryship, that he might be ready for any little bit of fat that came to hand; and he fully understood the Department to be a politico-diplomatic hocus pocus piece of machinery for the assistance of the nobs in keeping off the snobs.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nothing delighted you more than to have me tie my piece bags on your backs for burdens, give you hats and sticks and rolls of paper, and let you travel through the house from the cellar, which was the City of Destruction, up, up, to the housetop, where you had all the lovely things you could col-lect to make a Celestial City.'
-- T. TUPMAN Mr. Pickwick, Sir:I address you upon the subject of sin the sinner I mean is a man named Winkle who makes trou-ble in his club by laughing and sometimes won't write his piece in this fine paper I hope you will pardon his badness and let him send a French fable because he can't write out of his head as he has so many lessons to do and no brains in fu-ture I will try to take time by the fetlock and prepare some work which will be all commy la fo that means all right I am in haste as it is nearly school time Yours respectably, N. WINKLE [The above is a manly and handsome aknowledgment of past misdemeanors.
-- 'What a piece of nonsense we have made!With practice we might do something quite clever.
-- 'Now I'm ready,' said Amy, shutting the wardrobe and taking a piece of paper out of her pocket.
-- To my dear sister Margaret, I give my turkquoise ring (if I get it), also my green box with the doves on it, also my; piece of real lace for her neck, and my sketch of her as a me-morial of her 'little girl'.
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