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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- About two o'clock that same day they came to a cross road, and naturally enough Glenarvan inquired the name of it.
-- We have only to cross the top of the mountain chain, and once over, nothing can be easier of descent than the slopes we shall find there.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- does stand for 'Char-ing Cross Hospital,' what further inferences may we draw?'
-- House-surgeon, from 1882 to 1884, at Charing Cross Hospital.
-- 'From Charing Cross Hospital?'
-- I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.'
-- Yes, I have very little hesitation in saying that could we examine the waste-paper baskets of the hotels around Charing Cross until we found the remains of the mutilated Times leader we could lay our hands straight upon the person who sent this singular mes-sage.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The priest, who seemed to be a wise man, had stopped talking now, and only held the cross for the wretched fellow to kiss.
-- Well, when this terrible feeling came over him, the priest quickly pressed the cross to his lips, without a word a little silver cross it wasand he kept on pressing it to the man's lips every second.
-- And whenever the cross touched his lips, the eyes would open for a moment, and the legs moved once, and he kissed the cross greedily, hurriedly just as though he were anxious to catch hold of something in case of its being useful to him afterwards, though he could hardly have had any connected religious thoughts at the time.
-- The priest is holding the cross to his blue lips, and the criminal kisses it, and knows and sees and understands everything.
-- The cross and the head there's your picture; the priest and the execution-er, with his two assistants, and a few heads and eyes below.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Many Arcadians, good soldiers, came in each one of them, but Agamemnon found them the ships in which to cross the sea, for they were not a people that oc-cupied their business upon the waters.
-- Let none of you neither goddess nor god try to cross me, but obey me every one of you that I may bring this matter to an end.
-- As a lion or wild boar turns fiercely on the dogs and men that attack him, while these form solid wall and shower their javelins as they face him his cour-age is all undaunted, but his high spirit will be the death of him; many a time does he charge at his pursuers to scatter them, and they fall back as often as he does so even so did Hector go about among the host exhorting his men, and cheering them on to cross the trench.
-- They could neither jump it nor cross it, for it had overhanging banks all round upon either side, above which there were the sharp stakes that the sons of the Achaeans had planted so close and strong as a defence against all who would assail it; a horse, therefore, could not get into it and draw his chariot after him, but those who were on foot kept trying their very ut-most.
-- While they were busy stripping the armour from these heroes, the youths who were led on by Polydamas and Hec-tor (and these were the greater part and the most valiant of those that were trying to break through the wall and fire the ships) were still standing by the trench, uncertain what they should do; for they had seen a sign from heaven when they had essayed to cross it a soaring eagle that flew skirt-ing the left wing of their host, with a monstrous blood-red snake in its talons still alive and struggling to escape.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The thick black hair, escaping as it could below and between the cross bandages, projected in curious tails and horns, giving him the strangest appearance conceivable.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So I stood for perhaps a minute, and then, with an eye to the trees still, turned westward to cross the headland; and as I moved, one among the lurking shad-ows moved to follow me.
-- I tried him with some other questions, but his chattering, prompt responses were as often as not quite at cross purposes with my question.
-- I felt that I ought to cross the island and establish myself with the Beast People, and make myself secure in their confidence.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant.
-- They belonged to the tree-tops, and as beasts very seldom look up, there was no occasion for the monkeys and the Jungle-People to cross each other's path.
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:
-- 'That I will, and in English that the king needn't beashamed to answer,' returned the hunter, speaking in the language of which he boasted; 'but I see nothing, nor do I hear the sounds of man or beast; 'tis strange that an Indian should understand white sounds better than a man who, his very enemies will own, has no cross in his blood, although he may have lived with the red skins long enough to be sus-pected!Ha!there goes something like the cracking of a dry stick, too now I hear the bushes move yes, yes, there is a trampling that I mistook for the falls and but here they come themselves; God keep them from the Iroquois!'
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