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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With the cool insolence of a bloated capitalist, se-cure in his millions, he majestically drew a banknote for fifty roubles from his pocket-book and sent it to the noble young man as a humiliating piece of charity.
-- 'Accept, Antip,' whispered the boxer eagerly, leaning past the back of Hippolyte's chair to give his friend this piece of advice.
-- 'Now, that is a valuable piece of information, Mr. Keller,' replied Gania.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As when some woman of Meonia or Caria strains purple dye on to a piece of ivory that is to be the cheek-piece of a horse, and is to be laid up in a treasure house many a knight is fain to bear it, but the king keeps it as an ornament of which both horse and driver may be proud even so, O Menelaus, were your shapely thighs and your legs down to your fair ancles stained with blood.
-- Then the king knew that he must be the valiant offspring of a god, so he kept him in Lycia, gave him his daughter in marriage, and made him of equal honour in the kingdom with him-self; and the Lycians gave him a piece of land, the best in all the country, fair with vineyards and tilled fields, to have and to hold.
-- The hero was sleeping upon the skin of an ox, with a piece of fine carpet under his head; Nestor went up to him and stirred him with his heel to rouse him, upbraiding him and urging him to bestir himself.
-- As a carpenter's line gives a true edge to a piece of ship's tim-ber, in the hand of some skilled workman whom Minerva has instructed in all kinds of useful arts even so level was the issue of the fight between the two sides, as they fought some round one and some round another.
-- Or as mules that put forth all their strength to draw some beam or great piece of ship's timber down a rough mountain-track, and they pant and sweat as they, go even so did Menelaus and pant and sweat as they bore the body of Patroclus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A guest to stop at Iping in the wintertime was an unheard-of piece of luck, let alone a guest who was no "haggler," and she was resolved to show herself worthy of her good fortune.
-- A piece of tile whizzed by his head and smashed among the crockery on the kitchen table.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I leant forward to see him better, and a piece of lava, detached by my hand, went pattering down the slope.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They gave him a little piece of raw meat.
-- Big Toomai went up to the clerk with Little Toomai be-hind him, and Machua Appa, the head tracker, said in an undertone to a friend of his, 'There goes one piece of good elephant stuff at least.
-- Kala Nag put Little Toomai down, and he bowed to the earth again and went away with his father, and gave the sil-ver four-anna piece to his mother, who was nursing his baby brother, and they all were put up on Kala Nag's back, and the line of grunting, squealing elephants rolled down the hill path to the plains.
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:
-- Adjusting his rifle, he was about to make an exhibition of that skill on which he so much valued himself, when the warrior struck up the piece with his hand, saying: 'Hawkeye!will you fight the Maquas?'
-- It was an unthoughtful act in a man who has so often slept with the war-whoop ringing in the air, to let off his piece within sound of an ambushment!But then it was a natural temp-tation!
-- When the triumphant shout of Uncas was borne to his ears, the grati- fied father raised his voice in a single responsive cry, after which his busy piece alone proved that he still guarded his pass with unwearied diligence.
-- Three several times the scout raised his piece in mercy, and as often, prudence get-ting the better of his intention, it was again silently lowered.
-- Hawkeye exclaimed, dropping the useless piece in bitter disappointment; 'the miscreant has struck the rapid; and had we powder, it could hardly send the lead swifter than he now goes!'
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:
-- As they stand they are like the figures in an old tapestry; they do not separate themselves from the background, and at a distance seem to lose their pattern, so that you have little but a pleasing piece of colour.
-- I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I was distressed to find so much vindictiveness in so charming a creature.
-- He moved a piece and straightway became absorbed in the game.
-- There was an empty bottle by the side of the bed, which had contained milk, and in a piece of newspaper a few crumbs.
-- You remember I fetched from his room what I thought he needed, and he asked Blanche for a piece of paper and some string to make a parcel."
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