line是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 线; 路线, 航线; 排; 线路; 界线v. 排队; 加衬,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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A never-ceasing line of army wagons and ambulances,loading and unloading supplies and wounded from the trains, made the mud and confusion worse as they toiled in andstruggled out, drivers swearing, mules plunging and mud spattering for yards.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
-- The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
-- The soldiers were in front of us, extending into a pretty wide line with an interval between man and man.
-- Quite an untaught genius, I made the discovery of the line of action for myself.
-- After receiving the charge with every mark of derision, the pupils formed in line and buzzingly passed a ragged book from hand to hand.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The girls came just in time; they held him fast and tried to free his beard from the line, but all in vain, beard and line were entangled fast together.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To explain the manner of its progress, let A B represent a line drawn across the dominions of Balnibarbi, let the line c d represent the loadstone, of which let d be the repelling end, and c the at-tracting end, the island being over C: let the stone be placed in position c d, with its repelling end downwards; then the island will be driven upwards obliquely towards D. When it is arrived at D, let the stone be turned upon its axle, till its attracting end points towards E, and then the island will be carried obliquely towards E; where, if the stone be again turned upon its axle till it stands in the position E F, with its repelling point downwards, the island will rise obliquely towards F, where, by directing the attracting end towards G, 211the island may be carried to G, and from G to H, by turn-ing the stone, so as to make its repelling extremity to point directly downward.
-- He told me, 'he had for many years been commander of a ship; and in the sea fight at Actium had the good fortune to break through the enemy's great line of battle, sink three of their capital ships, and take a fourth, which was the sole cause of Antony's flight, and of the victory that ensued; that the youth standing by him, his only son, was killed in the action.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve.
-- Every line in his face deepened as he said it, and put in its affecting evidence of the suffering he had undergone.
-- It broke from one line in the table of commandments at the altar, and illuminated the building with the words.
-- Among the fine gentlemen not regularly belonging to the Gradgrind school, there was one of a good family and a better appearance, with a happy turn of humour which had told immensely with the House of Commons on the occasion of his entertaining it with his (and the Board of Directors) view of a railway accident, in which the most careful officers ever known, employed by the most liberal managers ever heard of, assisted by the finest mechanical contrivances ever devised, the whole in action on the best line ever constructed, had killed five people and wounded thirty-two, by a casualty without which the excellence of the whole system would have been positively incomplete.
-- He followed up the advantage, by saying in his pleasantest manner: a manner to which she might attach as much or as little meaning as she pleased: 'The side that can prove anything in a line of units, tens, hundreds, and thousands, Mrs. Bounderby, seems to me to afford the most fun, and to give a man the best chance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On the fly leaf was what appeared to be a blot of ink, but on examination proved to be a line of writing almost effaced by time.
-- Then in the third line I appeared to make out labiled, a perfect Hebrew word, and at the last the syllables mere, are, mer, which were French.
-- Another line of reasoning partially decided me.
-- Hans, on taking his departure from Reykjavik, had followed the line of the sea.
-- It is my intention to try my luck w ith my fishing line and hook."
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:
-- He could wheel himself about in a wheeled chair, and he had a bath-chair with a small motor attachment, so he could drive himself slow-ly round the garden and into the line melancholy park, of which he was really so proud, though he pretended to be flippant about it.
-- It stood on an eminence in a rather line old park of oak trees, but alas, one could see in the near distance the chim-ney of Tevershall pit, with its clouds of steam and smoke, and on the damp, hazy distance of the hill the raw straggle of Tevershall village, a village which began almost at the park gates, and trailed in utter hopeless ugliness for a long and gruesome mile: houses, rows of wretched, small, be-grimed, brick houses, with black slate roofs for lids, sharp angles and wilful, blank dreariness.
-- Had the miners not made him rich!So, when he saw the gangs of unshapely men lounging by his ornamental waters not in the PRIVATE part of the park, no, he drew the line there he would say: 'the miners are perhaps not so ornamental as deer, but they are far more profitable.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The line of demarcation between the two colours, black and blue, showed the point which the pure sea would not pass; but it lay as quiet as the abominable pool, with which it never mixed.
-- Towards the distant line of Italian coast, indeed, it was a little relieved by light clouds of mist, slowly rising from the evaporation of the sea, but it softened nowhere else.
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