cross是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 十字(架) ; 苦难a. 交叉的; 发怒的v. 穿过,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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I know what you mean, you cross thing,' said my mother.
-- I put itas she asked; and oh Davy!the time had come when my firstparting words to you were true- when she was glad to lay her poorhead on her stupid cross old Peggotty's arm- and she died like achild that had gone to sleep!'
-- And, as she turnedagain towards him, after glancing at me as I left the room and wentout at the door, I saw her cross her hands upon his knee, and lookup at him with the same face, something quieted, and he resumedhis reading.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Weston may grow cross from the wantonness of comfort, or his son may plague him.'
-- He was not an ill-tem-pered man, not so often unreasonably cross as to deserve such a reproach; but his temper was not his great perfec-tion; and, indeed, with such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased.
-- 'But your father is not going so far; he is only going to the Crown, quite on the other side of the street, and there are a great many houses; you might be very much at a loss, and it is a very dirty walk, unless you keep on the footpath; but my coachman can tell you where you had best cross the street.'
-- He told Patty this, but bid her not mind it, and be sure not to say any thing to us about it, for Mrs. Hodges would be cross sometimes, and as long as so many sacks were sold, it did not signify who ate the remainder.
-- Some people were always cross when they were hot.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The young man on leaving the door went to cross the square, when, in the middle, he met a little woman.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There are five windows in each story in the front of the house; all the blinds visible through the small square panes are drawn up awry, so that the lines are all at cross purposes.
-- He bore the contemptuous glances of the servants, who had seen him cross the court on foot, with the cold fury of a man who knows that he will succeed some day.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As I could not pass through the town, I was obliged to cross the lake in a boat to arrive at Plainpalais.
-- No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than I be-came convinced of its truth; my teeth chattered, and I was forced to lean against a tree for support.
-- Presently I saw the young man again, with some tools in his hand, cross the field behind the cottage; and the girl was also busied, sometimes in the house and some-times in the yard.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They would cross that bridge when they came to it.
-- Henry was her cross and she must bear him.
-- Then smitten with sudden fright at her irreverence she began hastily to cross herself by way ofapology but caught herself in time.
-- She wasseldom seen on Peachtree Street or in any nice neighborhood, but when she did appear respectable women made hasteto cross the street to remove themselves from her vicinity.
-- But we've got to cross Marietta Street somewhere and that explosion was near Marietta Street or I miss myguess."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Joe, who had ventured into the kitchen after me as the dustpan had retired before us, drew the back of his hand across his nose with a conciliatory air, when Mrs. Joe darted a look at him, and, when her eyes were withdrawn, secretly crossed his two forefingers, and exhibited them to me, as our token that Mrs. Joe was in a cross temper.
-- Mr. Wopsle said grace with theatrical declamation,--as it now appears to me, something like a religious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet with Richard the Third,--and ended with the very proper aspiration that we might be truly grateful.
-- When we came near the churchyard, we had to cross an embankment, and get over a stile near a sluice-gate.
-- It was a little past midday when the four-horse stage-coach by which I was a passenger, got into the ravel of traffic frayed out about the Cross Keys, Wood Street, Cheapside, London.
-- Our time of starting from the Cross Keys was two o'clock.
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