especially是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 特别, 尤其, 格外; 专门地, 主要地,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Very likely he will be in bed again in a day or two, especially if he lives fast.'
-- He was particularly anxious that this one day should be passed especially the evening without unpleasantness between himself and his family; and just at the right mo-ment the prince turned up 'as though Heaven had sent him on purpose,' said the general to himself, as he left the study to seek out the wife of his bosom.
-- 'Oh, of course, mamma, if we needn't stand on ceremony with him, we must give the poor fellow something to eat af-ter his journey; especially as he has not the least idea where to go to,' said Alexandra, the eldest of the girls.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If you dare send an arrow at Menelaus you will win honour and thanks from all the Trojans, and especially from prince Alexandrus he would be the first to requite you very handsomely if he could see Menelaus mount his funeral pyre, slain by an arrow from your hand.
-- Gladden, then, the hearts of the Achaeans at your ships, and more especially those of your own followers and clansmen, while I, in the great city of King Priam, bring comfort to the Trojans and their women, who vie with one another in their prayers on my behalf.
-- Men-servants poured water over the hands of the guests, while pages filled the mixing-bowls with wine and water, and handed it round after giving every man his drink-of-fering; then, when they had made their offerings, and had drunk each as much as he was minded, the envoys set out from the tent of Agamemnon son of Atreus; and Nestor, looking first to one and then to another, but most especially at Ulysses, was instant with them that they should prevail with the noble son of Peleus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The insurmountable difficulty of the place, especially now it was alarmed, was to get any plunder out of it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was struck especially by the curious movements of the legs of the three swathed and bandaged boatmen, not stiff they were, but distort-ed in some odd way, almost as if they were jointed in the wrong place.
-- Yet surely, and especially to another scientific man, there was nothing so horrible in vivisection as to account for this secrecy; and by some odd leap in my thoughts the pointed ears and luminous eyes of Montgomery's attendant came back again before me with the sharpest definition.
-- Montgom-ery told me that the Law, especially among the feline Beast People, became oddly weakened about nightfall; that then the animal was at its strongest; that a spirit of adventure sprang up in them at the dusk, when they would dare things they never seemed to dream about by day.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now a snake, especially a wary old python like Kaa, very seldom shows that he is angry, but Baloo and Bagheera could see the big swallowing muscles on either side of Kaa's throat ripple and bulge.
-- An elephant's trumpet-ing is always nasty, especially on a dark night.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Tis the six-and-twentieth edition, promul-gated at Boston, Anno Domini 1744; and is entitled, 'The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testaments; faithfully translated into English Metre, for the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints, in Public and Private, especially in New England'.'
-- Uncas acted as attendant to the females, performing all the little offices within his power, with a mixture of dignity and anxious grace, that served to amuse Heyward, who well knew that it was an utter inno-vation on the Indian customs, which forbid their warriors to descend to any menial employment, especially in favor of their women.
-- 'You have no warranty for such an audacious doctrine, nor any covenant to support it,' cried David who was deep-ly tinctured with the subtle distinctions which, in his time, and more especially in his province, had been drawn around the beautiful simplicity of revelation, by endeavoring to penetrate the awful mystery of the divine nature, supply-ing faith by self-sufficiency, and by consequence, involving those who reasoned from such human dogmas in absurdi-ties and doubt; 'your temple is reared on the sands, and the first tempest will wash away its foundation.
-- But when we had followed it for many miles, without finding a single twig broken, as I had advised, my mind misgave me; especially as all the foot-steps had the prints of moccasins.'
-- Your high-spiced wines are not better liked than a red-skin rel-ishes this water; especially when his natur' is ailing.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His haunts are not confined to the valley, but extend at times to the adjacent roads, and especially to the vicinity of a church at no great distance.
-- Ichahod Crane had a soft and foolish heart towards the sex; and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a mor-sel soon found favor in his eyes, more especially after he had visited her in her paternal mansion.
-- The sons, in short square-skirted coats, with rows of stupendous brass buttons, and their hair generally queued in the fash-ion of the times, especially if they could procure an eelskin for the purpose, it being esteemed throughout the country as a potent nourisher and strengthener of the hair.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When, in the enthusiasm of my youth, I remarked on this to Rose Waterford, she said:"Milk is very nice, especially with a drop of brandy in it, but the domestic cow is only too glad to be rid of it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Towards the summit fluttered myriads of sea-fowl, and especially those of the web-footed species with long, flat, pointed beaks a clamorous tribe, bold in the presence of man, who probably for the first time thus invaded their domains.
-- The young naturalist recognized especially the "deedara," which are very numerous in the Himalayan zone, and which spread around them a most agreeable odor.
-- Properly prepared, it is extremely inflammable, especially when it has been previously saturated with gunpowder, or boiled in a solution of nitrate or chlorate of potash.
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