creature是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 人, 动物; 生物,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was a mild and patient creature if her face spoke truth; but she was thankful in her soul to hear it, and she said so, with clasped hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
-- The form that was to be doomed to be so shamefully mangled, was the sight; the immortal creature that was to be so butchered 86 A tale of two citiesand torn asunder, yielded the sensation.
-- Indeed, except for the mere act of bringing a troublesome creature into this world which does not go far towards the realisation of the name of mother there was no such thing known to the fashion.
-- On seeing him, the misera-ble creature fell upon his shoulder, sobbing and crying, and pointing to the fountain, where some women were stoop-ing over the motionless bundle, and moving gently about it.
-- Even in my father's time, we did a world of wrong, injuring every human creature who came between us and our pleasure, 174 A tale of two citieswhatever it was.
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:
-- 'Alas!Unhappy creature that I am!'
-- The pitch-black clouds poured down their contents in still heavier torrents; not a creature was to be seen in the streets.
-- he sighed quite sorrowful, and gazed at the chirping birds that hopped contentedly from branch to branch, 'they are much better off than I!To fly must be a heavenly art; and happy do I prize that creature in which it is innate.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a creature so low and so earthly that it could not even be conceived that other people and she herself could regard him as worthy of her.
-- Here, you've been married, you know the feeling...it's awful that we--old--with a past... not of love, but of sins...are brought all at once so near to a creature pure and innocent; it's loathsome, and that's why one can't help feeling oneself unworthy."
-- I have worked for him, and all I had has gone in his service, and now of course any fresh, vulgar creature has more charm for him.
-- Of Mademoiselle Varenka one would not say that she had passed her first youth, but she was, as it were, a creature without youth; she might have been taken for nineteen or for thirty.
-- The more attentively Kitty watched her unknown friend, the more convinced she was this girl was the perfect creature she fancied her, and the more eagerly she wished to make her acquaintance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But the wretched creature did not seem to be making any resistance," observed Sir Francis.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It seemed impossible that this joyous shore could be threatened by plague, the slimy creature of dark alleys.
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:
-- And much she gets to eat and drink when there is not a crust for the little ones for three days!I was lying at the time 芒聙娄 well, what of it!I was lying drunk and I heard my Sonia speaking (she is a gentle creature with a soft little voice 芒聙娄 fair hair and such a pale, thin little face).
-- 'Ah, the shameful things that are done in the world now-adays, God have mercy on us!An innocent creature like that, drunk already!She has been deceived, that's a sure thing.
-- The student chattered on, saying that she had a sister Lizaveta, whom the wretched little creature was continually beating, and kept in complete bondage like a small child, though Lizaveta was at least six feet high.
-- Was it think-able that such a creature as Avdotya Romanovna would be marrying an unworthy man for money?
-- She's a widow now, in consumption, a poor creature 芒聙娄 three little children, starving 芒聙娄 nothing in the house 芒聙娄 there's a daughter, too 芒聙娄 perhaps you'd have given it yourself if you'd seen them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That honest creature was in deep affliction, I remember, and musthave become quite buttonless on the occasion; for a little volley ofthose explosives went off when, after having made it up with mymother, she kneeled down by the elbow-chair, and made it up withme.
-- But seeing me, shecalled me her dear Davy, her own boy!and coming half across theroom to meet me, kneeled down upon the ground and kissed me,and laid my head down on her bosom near the little creature thatwas nestling there, and put its hands up to my lips.
-- 'You are as jealous of Miss Murdstone as it is possible for aridiculous creature to be.
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