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, besides, it was obviously not said of design, but slipped out in the heat of conversation, so that he tried afterwards to correct him-self and smooth it over, but all the same it did strike me as somewhat rude, and I said so afterwards to Dounia.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I should be somewhat ashamedof myself, Clara,' returned Miss Murdstone.
-- The occupations to which Traddles stoodpledged, rendered it necessary to fix a somewhat distant one; butan appointment was made for the purpose, that suited us all, andthen I took my leave.
-- He was, at first, somewhat disconcerted to meet ustwo together; but quickly decided what to do, and came up to me.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I know that you all love her really too well to be unjust or unkind; but excuse me, Mr. Knightley, if I take the liberty (I consider myself, you know, as having somewhat of the privilege of speech that Emma's mother might have had) the liberty of hinting that I do not think any possible good can arise from Harriet Smith's intimacy being made a matter of much discussion among you.
-- He was dining with the Randalls family, and Jane, at the Eltons'; and he had seen a look, more than a single look, at Miss Fairfax, which, from the admirer of Miss Woodhouse, seemed somewhat out of place.
-- ' seemed to burst from an overcharged heart, and to describe somewhat of the continual endurance to be practised by her, even towards some of those who loved her best.
-- He had despaired at one period; he had received such an injunction to caution and silence, as for the time crushed every hope; she had begun by refus-ing to hear him. The change had perhaps been somewhat sudden; her proposal of taking another turn, her renew-ing the conversation which she had just put an end to, might be a little extraordinary! She felt its inconsistency; but Mr. Knightley was so obliging as to put up with it, and seek no farther explanation.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It may be mentioned that Oak's fob being difficult of access, by reason of its somewhat high situation in the waistband of his trousers (which also lay at a remote height under his waistcoat), the watch was as a necessity pulled out by throwing the body to one side, compressing the mouth and face to a mere mass of ruddy flesh on account of the exertion required, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well.
-- She hesitated, somewhat disconcerted at Oak's old-fashioned earnest conclusion to a dialogue lightly carried on.
-- In the crowd was an athletic young fellow of somewhat superior appearance to the rest in fact, his superiority was marked enough to lead several ruddy peasants standing by to speak to him inquiringly, as to a farmer, and to use "Sir" as a finishing word.
-- On somewhat suddenly awaking, after a sleep of whose length he had no idea, Oak found that the waggon was in motion.
-- Something in the exact arch of her upper unbroken row of teeth, and in the keenly pointed corners of her red mouth when, with parted lips, she somewhat defiantly turned up her face to argue a point with a tall man, suggested that there was potentiality enough in that lithe slip of humanity for alarming exploits of sex, and daring enough to carry them out.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That word drama has been somewhat discredited of late; it has been overworked and twisted to strange uses in these days of dolorous literature; but it must do service again here, not because this story is dramatic in the 莽卢卢 1 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 restricted sense of the word, but because some tears may perhaps be shed _intra et extra muros_ before it is over.
-- Though his manners were somewhat boorish, he was always as neat as a new pin and he took his snuff in a lordly way, like a man who knows that his snuff-box is always likely to be filled with maccaboy, so that when Mme.
-- He began to understand, though somewhat tardily, that he must not expect to find many women in Paris who were not already appropriated, and that the capture of one of these queens would be likely to cost something more than bloodshed.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You have been tutored and refined by books and retirement from the world, and you are therefore somewhat fastidi-ous; but this only renders you the more fit to appreciate the extraordinary merits of this wonderful man.
-- His appearance, different from any I had ever before seen, and his flight somewhat surprised me.
-- When I thought of my friends, of the mild voice of De Lacey, the gentle eyes of Agatha, and the exquisite beauty of the Arabian, these thoughts van-ished and a gush of tears somewhat soothed me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the last "Amen" sounded, they all rose, somewhat stiffly, Mammy being hauled to her feet by the combinedefforts of Teena and Rosa.
-- The destination of the proposed railroad,Tennessee and the West, was clear and definite, but its beginning point in Georgia was somewhat uncertain until, ayear later, an engineer drove a stake in the red clay to mark the southern end of the line, and Atlanta, born Terminus,had begun.
-- she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved.
-- "Oh," said Melly, somewhat embarrassed at Gerald's outspokenness.
-- There was a nibble of the tough old bird foreach, an adequate amount of dressing made of corn meal and seasoned with onions, a bowl of dried peas, and plenty ofrice and gravy, the latter somewhat watery, for there was no flour with which to thicken it For dessert, there was asweet potato pie followed by Rhett's bonbons, and when Rhett produced real Havana cigars for the gentlemen to enjoyover their glass of blackberry wine, everyone agreed it was indeed a Lucullan banquet When the gentlemen joined the ladies on the front porch, the talk turned to war.
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