normal是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 正常的, 普通的; 正规的, 标准的,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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They both alike tried in later life to blot out from their memories all the monstrous, shameful incidents of that morbid period, when both were rarely in a normal frame of mind, both were rarely quite themselves.
-- It seemed to him that in a normal development of wealth in a state all these phenomena would arise only when a considerable amount of labor had been put into agriculture, when it had come under regular, or at least definite, conditions; that the wealth of a country ought to increase proportionally, and especially in such a way that other sources of wealth should not outstrip agriculture; that in harmony with a certain stage of agriculture there should be means of communication corresponding to it, and that in our unsettled condition of the land, railways, called into being by political and not by economic needs, were premature, and instead of promoting agriculture, as was expected of them, they were competing with agriculture and promoting the development of manufactures and credit, and so arresting its progress; and that just as the one-sided and premature development of one organ in an animal would hinder its general development, so in the general development of wealth in Russia, credit, facilities of communication, manufacturing activity, indubitably necessary in Europe, where they had arisen in their proper time, had with us only done harm, by throwing into the background the chief question calling for settlement--the question of the organization of agriculture.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The boy, normal village youngster though he was, given to stoning cats and to playing pom-pom- pullaway, gained something of the intoxication of treasure-hunting as the Doc struggled to convey his vision of the pride of learning, the universality of biology, the triumphant exactness of chemistry.
-- Any psychologist desiring a perfectly normal man for use in demonstrations could not have done better than to have engaged Irving Watters.
-- No discussion at the Digamma Pi supper table was more violent than the incessant debate over the value to a doctor, a decent normal doctor who made a good living and did not worry about reading papers at medical associations, of remembering anatomical terms.
-- No matter how much bad beer he drank, Clif was never much more intoxicated than in his normal state.
-- When he had gone thus far, Martin pulled himself up, cursed himself for what he esteemed his old sin of superiority to decent normal people.
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:
-- A normal man, it is true, hardly exists.
-- Human nature is not taken into account, it is excluded, it's not supposed to exist!They don't recognise that humanity, developing by a historical living process, will become at last a normal soci-ety, but they believe that a social system that has come out of some mathematical brain is going to organise all human-ity at once and make it just and sinless in an instant, quicker than any living process!That's why they instinctively dis-like history, 'nothing but ugliness and stupidity in it,' and they explain it all as stupidity!That's why they so dislike the living process of life; they don't want a living soul!The living soul demands life, the soul won't obey the rules of mechan-ics, the soul is an object of suspicion, the soul is retrograde!
-- But as soon as one is ill, as soon as the normal earthly order of the or-ganism is broken, one begins to realise the possibility of another world; and the more seriously ill one is, the closer 408 Crime and Punishmentbecomes one's contact with that other world, so that as soon as the man dies he steps straight into that world.
-- I think, that is, it is my own personal convic-tion that this is the normal condition of women.
-- From the time of Svidriga脙炉lov's too menacing and unmistakable words in Sonia's room at the moment of Katerina Ivanov-na's death, the normal working of his mind seemed to break down.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I have always thought," he said reflectively, "that the system of mourning, of immuring women in cr脙陋pe for therest of their lives and forbidding them normal enjoyment is just as barbarous as the Hindu suttee."
-- Gerald couldhave told her she was suffering the normal aftermath of her first experience with hard drinking but Gerald noticednothing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This was so much her normal state, that Joe and I would often, for weeks together, be, as to our fingers, like monumental Crusaders as to their legs.
-- Mr. Pocket, with the normal perplexity of his face heightened and his hair rumpled, looked at them for some minutes, as if he couldn't make out how they came to be boarding and lodging in that establishment, and why they hadn't been billeted by Nature on somebody else.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If, then, the steam remains in its normal or habitual state, if their energy does not increase, and if you add to this, the remark that the wind is not replaced by heavy atmospheric pressure and dead calm, you may be quite sure that there is no fear of any immediate eruption."
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:
-- Sex might be a sort of normal physical conversation between a man and a woman.
-- Beastly place!Foul place!Kill anybody!Come away with me into the sun!It's the sun you want, of course, and a bit of normal life.'
-- 'I don't care who his father may be, so long as he is a healthy man not below normal intelligence.
-- 'It would be more natural if you spoke to us in normal English, not in vernacular.'
-- he said in the normal English.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was evident from the general tone of the whole party, that they had come to regard insolvency as the normal state of mankind, and the payment of debts as a disease that occasionally broke out.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hence, in the English, this thing of whaling good cheer is not normal and natural, but incidental and particular; and, therefore, must have some special origin, which is here pointed out, and will be still further elucidated.
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