somewhat是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 有点儿,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When he had tried on a dinner suit and come out for her approval, his long brown tie and soft- collared shirt somewhat rustic behind the low evening waistcoat, and when the clerk had gone to fetch collars, she wailed: "Darn it, Sandy, you're too grand for me.
-- He looked somewhat like President Roosevelt, with the same squareness and the same bristly mustache, and he cultivated the resemblance.
-- He felt victorious, and somewhat recovered from his weakness.
-- It is not known whether Martin ever completely accepted as a gentleman-scholar the Clay Tredgold who was devoted to everything about astronomy except studying it, or Monte Mugford as the highly descended aristocrat, but he did admire the Group's motor cars, shower baths, Fifth Avenue frocks, tweed plus-fours, and houses somewhat impersonally decorated by daffodillic young men from Chicago.
-- Martin was not too pleased by the promise, for Tredgold's set were somewhat exigent.
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:
-- Her colourless, somewhat grizzled hair was thickly smeared with oil, and she wore no kerchief over it.
-- There was another man in the room who looked somewhat like a retired government clerk.
-- At the counter stood a boy of about fourteen, and there was another boy somewhat younger who handed whatever was wanted.
-- It is true that he is forty-five years old, but he is of a fairly prepossessing appearance and might still be thought attractive by women, and he is altogether a very re-spectable and presentable man, only he seems a little morose and somewhat conceited.
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:
-- I should not much mind examining the little glimmering things somewhat near-er, especially the moon; for that would not slip so easily through a man's fingers.
-- per-sons are obliged to content themselves with flowers in pots; there lived two little children, who had a garden somewhat larger than a flower-pot.
-- At the same moment the bell sounded deep in the wood, so clear and solemnly that five or six determined to pen-etrate somewhat further.
-- It is somewhat ex-pensive, but I like to have something for myself!'
-- Little Tuk looked, and all was red and green before his eyes; but as soon as the confusion of colors was somewhat over, all of a sudden there appeared a wooded slope close to the bay, and high up above stood a magnificent old church, with two high pointed towers.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thinking over what he would say, he somewhat regretted that he should have to use his time and mental powers for domestic consumption, with so little to show for it, but, in spite of that, the form and contents of the speech before him shaped itself as clearly and distinctly in his head as a ministerial report.
-- The betrayed husband, who had figured till that time as a pitiful creature, an incidental and somewhat ludicrous obstacle to his happiness, had suddenly been summoned by her herself, elevated to an awe-inspiring pinnacle, and on the pinnacle that husband had shown himself, not malignant, not false, not ludicrous, but kind and straightforward and large.
-- Chapter 22 Stepan Arkadyevitch, with the same somewhat solemn expression with which he used to take his presidential chair at his board, walked into Alexey Alexandrovitch's room.
-- Kitty had no need to ask Varenka; she saw from the calm and somewhat crestfallen faces of both that her plans had not come off.
-- Whether there was something exceptional in Levin's face, or that Vassenka was himself conscious that ce petit brin de cour he was making was out of place in this family, but he was somewhat (as much as a young man in society can be) disconcerted at Levin's entrance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS CONVINCED THAT HE HAS AT LAST FOUND HIS IDEAL"Faith," muttered Passepartout, somewhat flurried, "I've seen people at Madame Tussaud's as lively as my new master!"
-- His brown hair was somewhat tumbled; for, while the ancient sculptors are said to have known eighteen methods of arranging Minerva's tresses, Passepartout was familiar with but one of dressing his own: three strokes of a large-tooth comb completed his toilet.
-- Fix got up in a somewhat rumpled condition, and, looking at his adversary, coldly said, "Have you done?"
-- After recent events, their relations with each other had grown somewhat cold; there could no longer be mutual sympathy or intimacy between them.
-- The Elder's story became somewhat wearisome, and his audience grew gradually less, until it was reduced to twenty passengers.
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