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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, Pencroft, accustomed with his sailor eyes to piece through the gloom, was almost certain that he could clearly distinguish in the west confused masses which indicated an elevated coast.
-- The reporter hunted again in the pockets of his trousers, waistcoat, and great-coat, and at last to Pencroft's great joy, no less to his extreme surprise, he felt a tiny piece of wood entangled in the lining of his waistcoat.
-- This small piece of wood, of which so many in an inhabited country are wasted with indifference and are of no value, must here be used with the greatest caution.
-- Pencroft took the piece of paper which the reporter held out to him, and knelt down before the fireplace.
-- Pencroft then twisted the piece of paper into the shape of a cone, as smokers do in a high wind, and poked it in among the moss.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This was prudent, for in point of fact, the dwarf, knowing his disposition, was lying in wait at a little distance from the sash armed with a large piece of wood, which, being rough and jagged and studded in many parts with broken nails, might possibly have hurt him.
-- Some people by prudent management and leaving it off piece by piece like a flannel waistcoat in warm weather, even contrive, in time, to dispense with it altogether; but there be others who can assume the garment and throw it off at pleasure; and this, being the greatest and most convenient improvement, is the one most in vogue.
-- In this flight of fancy, Mr Swiveller was assisted by a deceptive piece of furniture, in reality a bedstead, but in semblance a bookcase, which occupied a prominent situation in his chamber and seemed to defy suspicion and challenge inquiry.
-- 'I call Heaven to witness that I never played for gain of mine, or love of play; that at every piece I staked, I whispered to myself that orphan's name and called on Heaven to bless the venture; which it never did.
-- said Kit, taking out his clasp-knife, and falling upon a great piece of bread and meat which she had had ready for him, hours before, 'what a one you are!There an't many such as you, I know.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She brought a perfumed piece of soap, just taken from the wrapper, and two towels--one Russian and the other Turkish.
-- she called, and breaking a piece from the roll thrust it toward the boy, who gazed at her open-mouthed.
-- "Why, he has not misbehaved," Korableva said of Vasilieff, biting off a piece of sugar with her strong teeth.
-- The young man held a piece of paper in his hand, and, evidently not knowing what to do, with an angry expression on his face was folding and crumpling it.
-- We even tried," with a remote semblance of a smile the general continued, "to put a piece of paper between the pages, and it remained untouched.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But next morning I perceived clearly enough that my curiosity regarding the Palace of Green Porcelain was a piece of self-deception, to enable me to shirk, by another day, an experience I dreaded.
-- I lit another piece of camphor, and went on gathering my bonfire.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'For instance, now,' she went on, sticking a large piece of plaster on her finger as she spoke, 'there's the King's Messenger.
-- 'The piece I'm going to repeat,' he went on without noticing her remark, 'was written entirely for your amusement.'
-- They placed themselves close to where Hatta, the other messenger, was standing watching the fight, with a cup of tea in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other.
-- Hatta made a desperate effort, and swallowed a large piece of bread-and-butter.
-- Alice took a piece to taste, but it was very dry.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'm not a doctor only; I'm a magistrate; and if I catch a breath of complaint against you, if it's only for a piece of incivility like tonight's, I'll take effectual means to have you hunted down and routed out of this.
-- A few small coins, a thimble, and some thread and big needles, a piece of pigtail tobacco bitten away at the end, his gully with the crooked handle, a pocket compass, and a tinder box were all that they contained, and I began to despair.
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