taste是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 品尝; (of) 有…味道; 体验n. 滋味; 味觉,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'It is not often,' said the second of the three, addressing 46 A tale of two citiesMonsieur Defarge, 'that many of these miserable beasts know the taste of wine, or of anything but black bread and death.
-- 'Ah!So much the worse!A bitter taste it is that such poor cattle always have in their mouths, and hard lives they live, Jacques.
-- Simple as the furniture was, it was set off by so many little adornments, of no value but for their taste and fancy, that its effect was delightful.
-- For, the rooms, though a beautiful scene to look at, and adorned with every device of decoration that the taste and skill of the time could achieve, were, in truth, not a sound business; considered with any reference to the scarecrows in the rags and nightcaps elsewhere (and not so far off, ei-ther, but that the watching towers of Notre Dame, almost equidistant from the two extremes, could see them both), they would have been an exceedingly uncomfortable busi-148 A tale of two citiesness if that could have been anybody's business, at the house of Monseigneur.
-- He read with young men who could find any leisure and interest for the study of a living tongue spoken all over the world, and he cultivated a taste for its stores of knowledge and fancy.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I fancied that I was the lieutenant over there: and yet the thing was not very much to my taste after all.
-- It is a great fault to have no taste for what is witty or amusing come, let us be men.'
-- and when Gerda had told her everything, and asked her if she had not seen little Kay, 92 Andersen's Fairy Talesthe woman answered that he had not passed there, but he no doubt would come; and she told her not to be cast down, but taste her cherries, and look at her flowers, which were finer than any in a picture-book, each of which could tell a whole story.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "You'd better tell me what to drink; such a nasty taste in my mouth, that..." "Brandy's better than anything," boomed Yashvin.
-- And truly Levin had never drunk any liquor so good as this warm water with green bits floating in it, and a taste of rust from the tin dipper.
-- "Come, master, taste my sop," said he, kneeling down before the cup.
-- But to Anna's taste Liza was far more attractive.
-- In Turkey he had got into a harem; in India he had hunted on an elephant, and now in Russia he wished to taste all the specially Russian forms of pleasure.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I quitted France five years ago, and, wishing to taste the sweets of domestic life, took service as a valet here in England.
-- The founder of the City of the Saints could not escape from the taste for symmetry which distinguishes the Anglo-Saxons.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The moment the urgent Martin showed that he was stirred by her graces, she went at his clothes--his corduroys and soft collars and eccentric old gray felt hat--at his vocabulary and his taste in fiction, with new and more patronizing vigor.
-- They sent him, with anxiety over the cost, to a smart school near Zenith, where he met the sons of manufacturers and discovered a taste for fast motors and eccentric clothes, and no taste what ever for studying.
-- It's from the Zenith Advocate-Times, and it's by Chum Frink, who, I think you'll agree with me, ranks with Eddie Guest and Walt Mason as the greatest, as they certainly are the most popular, of all our poets, showing that you can bank every time on the literary taste of the American Public.
-- Presently they had friends: the Holabirds, Dr. Billy Smith--the thin-bearded bio- chemist, who had an intelligent taste in music and German beer--an anatomist whom Martin met at a Winnemac alumni dinner, and always Max Gottlieb.
-- Then Martin also went rapidly away, accompanied by a furious Leora, who in the taxicab announced that she had desired to taste the champagne-cup which she had observed on the buffet, and that her husband was little short of a fool.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In spite of her continu-al anxiety that the dishes should be passed round correctly and that everyone should taste them, in spite of the agonis-ing cough which interrupted her every minute and seemed to have grown worse during the last few days, she hastened to pour out in a half whisper to Raskolnikov all her sup-pressed feelings and her just indignation at the failure of the dinner, interspersing her remarks with lively and un-controllable laughter at the expense of her visitors and especially of her landlady.
-- 'I never have liked water,' he thought, 'even in a landscape,' and he sud-denly smiled again at a strange idea: 'Surely now all these questions of taste and comfort ought not to matter, but I've become more particular, like an animal that picks out a spe-cial place 芒聙娄 for such an occasion.
-- A 708 Crime and Punishmentfine, sumptuous country cottage in the English taste over-grown with fragrant flowers, with flower beds going round the house; the porch, wreathed in climbers, was surrounded with beds of roses.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I see them cross the way tomeet her, when her bonnet (she has a bright taste in bonnets) isseen coming down the pavement, accompanied by her sister'sbonnet.
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