recall是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. /n. 召回; 回忆,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nothing but a sharp recall from Glenarvan kept the boy in proper order.
-- But these demonstrations were not sufficient to propitiate the soul of the deceased, whose wrath might strike the survivors of his tribe; and his warriors, as they could not recall him to life, were anxious that he should have nothing to wish for in the other world.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gavrila Ardalionovitch meanwhile seemed to be trying to recall something.
-- 'Oh, I happened to recall it, that's all!It fitted into the conversation ' 'You probably wish to deduce, prince,' said Alexandra, 'that moments of time cannot be reckoned by money value, and that sometimes five minutes are worth priceless trea-sures.
-- Dear me,' said Nastasia, thoughtfully, as though trying to recall something to mind.
-- It is thirty-five years since it all happened, and yet I cannot to this very day recall the circumstances with-out, as it were, a sudden pang at the heart.
-- 'What simplifies the duty before me considerably, in my opinion,' he began, 'is that I am bound to recall and relate the very worst action of my life.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I never recall my word, or deceive, or fail to do what I say, when I have nodded my head.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was very much impressed by the elaborate secrecy of these two men regarding the contents of the place, and for some time I was thinking of that and of the unaccountable familiarity of the name of Moreau; but so odd is the hu-man memory that I could not then recall that well-known name in its proper connection.
-- Neither the captain nor the mate would be-lieve my story, judging that solitude and danger had made me mad; and fearing their opinion might be that of others, I refrained from telling my adventure further, and professed to recall nothing that had happened to me between the loss of the 'Lady Vain' and the time when I was picked up again, the space of a year.
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:
-- Twenty times the gourd or the venison was suspended before his lips, while his head was turned aside, as though he listened to some distant and distrusted sounds a movement that never failed to recall his guests from regarding the novelties of their situation, to a recollection of the alarming reasons that had driven them to seek it.
-- 'By no means,' returned Heyward, anxious to recall his error, if he had made one; 'the white man may, and does often, forget the burial place of his fathers; he sometimes ceases to remember those he should love, and has promised to cherish; but the affection of a parent for his child is never permitted to die.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.
-- And though, doubtless, some at least of the imaginative impressions about to be presented may have been shared by most men, yet few perhaps were entirely conscious of them at the time, and therefore may not be able to recall them now.
-- There is no remembrance in him of any gorings of wild creatures in his green northern home, so that the strange muskiness he smells cannot recall to him anything associated with the experience of former perils; for what knows he, this New England colt, of the black bisons of distant Oregon?
-- This terrific object seemed to recall the whole herd from their stationary fright.
-- The recall signals were placed in the rigging; darkness came on; and forced to pick up her three far to windward boats ere going in quest of the fourth one in the precisely opposite direction the ship had not only been necessitated to leave that boat to its fate till near midnight, but, for the time, to increase her distance from it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the old gentleman could recall no one countenance of which Oliver's features bore a trace.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Their eyes were immediately wander-ing up in the street in quest of the officers, and nothing less than a very smart bonnet indeed, or a really new muslin in a shop window, could recall them.
-- I can recall nothing worse.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I love to be reminded of the past, Edward whether it be melancholy or gay, I love to recall it and you will never offend me by talking of former times.
-- And with this pleasing anticipation, she sat down to reconsider the past, recall the words and endeavour to comprehend all the feelings of Edward; and, of course, to reflect on her own with discontent.
-- Her affection for me deserved better treatment, and I often, with great self-reproach, recall the tenderness which, for a very short time, had the power of creating any return.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Incidentally, she also began to recall the fact that he had practically forced her to flee with him.
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