cutting是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 锋利的, 尖刻的n. 开凿出来的公路, 铁路; 剪报，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the idlers, many of whom had mounted to the top of a cutting formed for the road, were several Weatherbury men and boys among others Poorgrass, Coggan, and Cain Ball.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cutting his nails!He took the letter that poor Mme.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Abovethem, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin that skin soprized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.
-- She had often heard of people cutting off their noses to spite their faces but heretoforeit had been only a figure of speech.
-- Her stays were cutting her ribs in two.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sister had a trenchant way of cutting our bread and butter for us, that never varied.
-- He held me by the collar and stared at me so, that I began to think his first idea about cutting my throat had revived.
-- "Why don't you answer--""Pip," returned Joe, cutting me short as if he were hurt, "which I meantersay that were not a question requiring a answer betwixt yourself and me, and which you know the answer to be full well No.
-- "A good night for cutting off in," said Orlick.
-- "Mr. and Mrs. Hubble might like to see you in your new gen-teel figure too, Pip," said Joe, industriously cutting his bread, with his cheese on it, in the palm of his left hand, and glancing at my untasted supper as if he thought of the time when we used to compare slices.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sixth, 'Who has been cutting with my knife?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor man squalled terribly, and the colonel and his officers were in much pain, espe-cially when they saw me take out my penknife: but I soon put them out of fear; for, looking mildly, and immediately cutting the strings he was bound with, I set him gently on 28 Gulliver's Travelsthe ground, and away he ran.
-- I was at incredible 91pains in cutting down some of the largest timber-trees, for oars and masts, wherein I was, however, much assisted by his majesty's ship- carpenters, who helped me in smoothing them, after I had done the rough work.
-- He said, 'if we were governed by our own consent, in the persons of our representatives, he could not imagine of whom we were afraid, or against whom we were to fight; and would hear my opinion, whether a private man's house might not be better defended by himself, his 162 Gulliver's Travelschildren, and family, than by half-a-dozen rascals, picked up at a venture in the streets for small wages, who might get a hundred times more by cutting their throats?'
-- The first project was, to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because, in reality, all things imaginable are but norms.
-- He thought his ears, being used to such abominable words, might, by degrees, admit them with less detestation: that although he hated the Ya-hoos of this country, yet he no more blamed them for their odious qualities, than he did a gnnayh (a bird of prey) for its cruelty, or a sharp stone for cutting his hoof.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A mighty man at cutting and drying, he was; a government officer; in his way (and in most other people's too), a professed pugilist; always in training, always with a system to force down the general throat like a bolus, always to be heard of at the bar of his little Public-office, ready to fight all England.
-- MR. JAMES HARTHOUSEThe Gradgrind party wanted assistance in cutting the throats of the Graces.
-- The old woman you mentioned, sir ''The old woman I mentioned, ma'am,' said Bounderby, cutting the matter short, as it was nothing to boast about, 'is not laid hold of; but, she may take her oath she will be, if that is any satisfaction to her villainous old mind.
-- 'Hear me out,' said Bounderby, 'and refrain from cutting in till your turn comes round.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could easily imagine him tearing along some solitary road, gesticulating, talking to himself, cutting the air with his cane, and still thinking of the absurd bit of hieroglyphics.
-- My uncle and I came behind, cutting a very tolerable figure upon our small but vigorous animals.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Michaelis had the ear of a few million people, probably; and, being a hopeless outsider, he would no doubt be grateful to be asked down to Wragby at this juncture, when the rest of the smart world was cutting him.
-- They ran beside the railway, which was in a cutting below them.
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