quite是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 十分, 完全; 相当, 颇; 的确, 真正,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:
-- Lady Helena soon joined her husband on deck, quite charmed at the prospect of such exciting sport.
-- "I quite agree with you," said McNabbs.
-- "That's hard to say, my dear Helena, the words are quite incomplete."
-- "Let's go on," said Lord Glenarvan, becoming quite excited over his task, as the incomplete words began to fill up and develop their meaning.
-- Isn't the document quite clear now?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
-- These wise and sober thoughts continued all the while the storm lasted, and indeed some time after; but the next day the wind was abated, and the sea calmer, and I began to be a little inured to it; however, I was very grave for all that day, being also a little sea-sick still; but towards night the weather cleared up, the wind was quite over, and a charm-ing fine evening followed; the sun went down perfectly clear, and rose so the next morning; and having little or no wind, and a smooth sea, the sun shining upon it, the sight was, as I thought, the most delightful that ever I saw.
-- An irresistible reluctance continued to going home; and as I stayed away a while, the remembrance of the dis-tress I had been in wore off, and as that abated, the little motion I had in my desires to return wore off with it, till at last I quite laid aside the thoughts of it, and looked out for a voyage.
-- This was the unhap-piest voyage that ever man made; for though I did not carry quite 100 pounds of my new-gained wealth, so that I had 200 pounds left, which I had lodged with my friend's widow, who was very just to me, yet I fell into terrible misfortunes.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Marianne's abilities were, in many respects, quite equal to Elinor's.
-- My mother was quite sick of it.
-- They will have no carriage, no horses, and hardly any servants; they will keep no company, and can have no expenses of any kind!Only conceive how comfortable they will be!Five hundred a year!I am sure I cannot imagine how they will spend half of it; and as to your giving them more, it is quite absurd to think of it.
-- Poor Brandon!he is quite smitten already, and he is very well worth setting your cap at, I can tell you, in spite of all this tumbling about and spraining of ankles."
-- "But indeed this is quite another thing.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Let's see," he went on, "I know quite a number of people in your town.
-- Now she walked quite aimlessly for a time, turning here and there, seeing one great company after another, but finding no courage to prosecute her single inquiry.
-- At the latter laboured quite a company of girls and some men.
-- Carrie looked about her, very much disturbed and quite sure that she did not want to work here.
-- She felt the flow of the tide of effort and interest--felt her own helplessness without quite realising the wisp on the tide that she was.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Quite a fortune for you.
-- Then I fixed the piece of log back into its place, and put two rocks under it and one against it to hold it there, for it was bent up at that place and didn't quite touch ground.
-- Well, one night I creeps to de do' pooty late, en de do' warn't quite shet, en I hear old missus tell de widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orleans, but she didn' want to, but she could git eight hund'd dollars for me, en it 'uz sich a big stack o' money she couldn' resis'.
-- I haven't lived here quite two weeks.
-- When he heard my voice it righted him up some, but he warn't quite satisfied yet.
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