revenge是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 报仇, 报复,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:
-- I won't conceal from you that in beginning this I was in uncertainty, I was in misery; I will confess that I was pursued by a desire to revenge myself on you and on her.
-- "Then, since it's so, I know what I must do," she said, and feeling a vague fury and craving for revenge rising up within her, she ran upstairs.
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:
-- Our judges are not so blind and 芒聙娄 not so drunk, and will not believe the testimony of two notorious infi-dels, agitators, and atheists, who accuse me from motives of personal revenge which they are foolish enough to admit芒聙娄.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When I reflect-ed on his crimes and malice, my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation.
-- For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to control them, but allow-ing myself to be borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death.
-- The nearer I ap-proached to your habitation, the more deeply did I feel the spirit of revenge enkindled in my heart.
-- I will revenge my in-juries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my archenemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred.
-- You can blast 205my other passions, but revenge remains revenge, hence-forth dearer than light or food!I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This was always followed by Collins's Ode on the Passions, wherein I particularly venerated Mr. Wopsle as Revenge throwing his blood-stained sword in thunder down, and taking the War-denouncing trumpet with a withering look.
-- That girl's hard and haughty and capricious to the last degree, and has been brought up by Miss Havisham to wreak revenge on all the male sex."
-- "Why should she wreak revenge on all the male sex?
-- I saw in this, wretched though it made me, and bitter the sense of dependence and even of degradation that it awakened,--I saw in this that Estella was set to wreak Miss Havisham's revenge on men, and that she was not to be given to me until she had gratified it for a term.
-- But the boldest point he made was this: it was attempted to be set up, in proof of her jealousy, that she was under strong suspicion of having, at about the time of the murder, frantically destroyed her child by this man--some three years old--to revenge herself upon him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nothing angered and mortified me so much as the queen's dwarf; who being of the lowest stature that was ever in that country (for I verily think he was not full thirty feet high), became so insolent at seeing a creature so much be-neath him, that he would always affect to swagger and look big as he passed by me in the queen's antechamber, while I was standing on some table talking with the lords or la-dies of the court, and he seldom failed of a smart word or two upon my littleness; against which I could only revenge myself by calling him brother, challenging him to wrestle, 130 Gulliver's Travelsand such repartees as are usually in the mouths of court pages.
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 wants to begin his revenge on you,' he said, handing the letter back.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The defiant character it assumed when Fanny heard these extollings (as it generally happened that she did), was not expressive of concessions to the impartial bosom; but the utmost revenge the bosom took was, to say audibly, 'A spoilt beauty but with that face and shape, who could wonder?'
-- She took her revenge for her old grudge in thus turning his subject against him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He came directly from the shoal which we had just before entered, and in which we had struck three of his companions, as if fired with revenge for their sufferings."
-- "The dark ocean and swelling waters were nothing; the fears of being swallowed up by some dreadful tempest, or dashed upon hidden rocks, with all the other ordinary subjects of fearful contemplation, seemed scarcely entitled to a moment's thought; the dismal looking wreck, and the horrid aspect and revenge of the whale, wholly engrossed my reflections, until day again made its appearance."
-- "But though the Lakeman had induced the seamen to adopt this sort of passiveness in their conduct, he kept his own counsel (at least till all was over) concerning his own proper and private revenge upon the man who had stung him in the ventricles of his heart.
-- Yet complete revenge he had, and without being the avenger.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Dogs are not generally apt to revenge injuries inflicted upon them by their masters; but Mr. Sikes's dog, having faults of temper in common with his owner, and labouring, perhaps, at this moment, under a powerful sense of injury, made no more ado but at once fixed his teeth in one of the half-boots.
-- The girl said nothing more; but, tearing her hair and dress in a transport of passion, made such a rush at the Jew as would probably have left signal marks of her revenge upon him, had not her wrists been seized by Sikes at the right moment; upon which, she made a few ineffectual struggles, and fainted.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His revenge would have been complete indeed.
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