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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The question took quite another shape.
-- "Oh!it will be nothing; not quite so direct a road, that is all.
-- It was quite evident that at that rate we should never come up with it.
-- "Yes," answered I; "and you will be quite right to do it."
-- I resolved then to husband our strength, so that both should not be exhausted at the same time; and this is how we managed: while one of us lay on our back, quite still, with arms crossed, and legs stretched out, the other would swim and push the other on in front.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She wanted to be quite definite.
-- And she felt as if she were treading in the air, quite unstable, her heart was contracted, as if at any minute she might be precipitated to the ground.
-- "They're quite all right, really," said Ursula, going forward.
-- Here was something not quite so preconcluded.
-- He affected to be quite ordinary, perfectly and marvellously commonplace.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
-- He had grown sparer, and lost his colour, and spoke and dressed quite differently; and, on the very day of his return, he told Joseph and me we must thenceforth quarter ourselves in the back kitchen, and leave the house for him.
-- "A wicked boy, at all events," remarked the old lady, "and quite unfit for a decent house!Did you notice his language, Linton?
-- Hindley lifted her from her horse, exclaiming delightedly, 'Why, Cathy, you are quite a beauty!I should scarcely have known you: you look like a lady now.
-- And now, though I have dinner to get ready, I'll steal time to arrange you so that Edgar Linton shall look quite a doll beside you: and that he does.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The fog was rapidly dispersing; already the moon shone quite clear on the high ground on either side; and it was only in the exact bottom of the dell and round the tavern door that a thin veil still hung unbroken to conceal the first steps of our escape.
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