blood是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 血液, 血; 血统, 血亲; 血气,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:
-- She had began to spit blood at that time.
-- At first, when he had opened the door and saw her standing before him, he had become as pale as death; but now the red blood had rushed back to his cheeks in a torrent.
-- You know ensigns their blood is boiling water, their circumstances generally penurious.
-- 'This baseness on her part of course aroused my young blood to fever heat; I jumped up, and away I flew.
-- A pool of blood on the steps near his head gave rise to grave fears.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It went right through this and through the cuirass of cunning workmanship; it also pierced the belt beneath it, which he wore next his skin to keep out darts or arrows; it was this that served him in the best stead, never-theless the arrow went through it and grazed the top of the skin, so that blood began flowing from the wound.
-- When King Agamemnon saw the blood flowing from the wound he was afraid, and so was brave Menelaus him-self till he saw that the barbs of the arrow and the thread that bound the arrow-head to the shaft were still outside the wound.
-- The Trojans have tram-pled on their oaths and have wounded you; nevertheless the oath, the blood of lambs, the drink-offerings and the right hands of fellowship in which we have put our trust shall not be vain.
-- He undid the burnished belt, and beneath this the cuirass and the belt of mail which the bronze-smiths had made; then, when he had seen the wound, he wiped away the blood and applied some soothing drugs which Chiron had given to Aesculapius out of the good will he bore him.
-- Sthenelus sprang from his chariot, and drew the ar-row from the wound, whereon the blood came spouting out through the hole that had been made in his shirt.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You must stand that!It's a filthy nuisance, my blood showing, isn't it?
-- And not only paper, but cotton fibre, linen fibre, wool fibre, woody fibre, and bone, Kemp, flesh, Kemp, hair, Kemp, nails and nerves, Kemp, in fact the whole fabric of a man except the red of his blood and the black pigment of hair, are all made up of transparent, colourless tissue.
-- After I'd given the stuff to bleach the blood and done certain other things to her, I gave the beast opium, and put her and the pillow she was sleeping on, on the apparatus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The name on the boat was the 'Lady Vain,' and there were spots of blood on the gunwale.'
-- I listened, rigid, and heard nothing but the creep of the blood in my ears.
-- The memory of his work on the transfusion of blood recurred to me.
-- I saw my death before me; but I was hot and panting, with the warm blood oozing out on my face and running pleasantly through my veins.
-- If some brute has by any accident tasted blood He went on some way in silence.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'And then, and then, they gave me nuts and pleasant things to eat, and they they carried me in their arms up to the top of the trees and said I was their blood brother except that I had no tail, and should be their leader some day.'
-- And the big brown ele-phant catchers, the trackers and drivers and ropers, and the men who know all the secrets of breaking the wildest ele-phants, passed him from one to the other, and they marked his forehead with blood from the breast of a newly killed jungle-cock, to show that he was a forester, initiated and free of all the jungles.
-- And at last, when the flames died down, and the red light of the logs made the elephants look as though they had been dipped in blood too, Machua Appa, the head of all the drivers of all the Keddahs Machua Appa, Petersen Sahib's other self, who had never seen a made road in forty years: Machua Appa, who was so great that he had no other name than Machua Appa, leaped to his feet, with Little Toomai held high in the air above his head, and shouted: 'Listen, my brothers.
-- You don't know what blood is.'
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:
-- But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced na-tive warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
-- As the credulous and excited traveler related the hazardous chances of the wil-derness, the blood of the timid curdled with terror, and mothers cast anxious glances even at those children which slumbered within the security of the largest towns.
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