arrive是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vi. 到达; (时间、 事件) 到来, 发生; 达到,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:
-- To start for India and arrive at Chili!To learn Spanish and talk Portuguese!Why, if I go on like this, some day I shall be throwing myself out of the window instead of my cigar!"
-- He had taken thirty days to cross Chili, the Cordilleras, the Pampas, and the Argentine plains, giving the DUNCAN ample time to double Cape Horn, and arrive on the opposite side.
-- Better delay half-a-day than not arrive safely.
-- Who knows whether we shan't arrive in time to prevent a catastrophe."
-- Lord and Lady Glenarvan first; when they arrive at the bottom, three pulls at the rope will be a signal to us to follow."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The moment you arrive you will send a wire to Sir Henry Baskerville, in my name, to say that if he finds the pocket-book which I have dropped he is to send it by registered post to Baker Street.'
-- Arrive five-forty. LESTRADE.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I have waited for you on purpose, and am very glad to see you arrive so happy,' said Hippolyte, when the prince came forward to press his hand, immediately after greet-ing Vera.
-- Excuse me, prince!Should he refuse to deliver up his weap-on, then I shall instantly seize one of his arms and General Ivolgin the other, and we shall hold him until the police arrive and take the matter into their own hands.
-- We Russians no sooner arrive at the brink of the water, and re-alize that we are really at the brink, than we are so delighted with the outlook that in we plunge and swim to the farthest point we can see.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- First to arrive was the Satyr, strangely unreal for all that he cast a shadow and tossed the dust with his hoofs.
-- The last of the Beast People to arrive was the little Ape-man.
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:
-- From such undeniable testimony did the practised woodsman arrive at the truth, with nearly as much certainty and precision as if he had been a witness of all those events which his ingenuity so easily elucidated.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Laurie sold his busts, made allumettes of his opera, and went back to Par-is, hoping somebody would arrive before long.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On one side hung a very large oilpainting so thoroughly besmoked, and every way defaced, that in the unequal crosslights by which you viewed it, it was only by diligent study and a series of systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of the neighbors, that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its purpose.
-- I took it up, and held it close to the light, and felt it, and smelt it, and tried every way possible to arrive at some satisfactory conclusion concerning it.
-- There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery.
-- But not so did it seem to Ahab, who knew the sets of all tides and currents; and thereby calculating the driftings of the sperm whale's food; and, also, calling to mind the regular, ascertained seasons for hunting him in particular latitudes; could arrive at reasonable surmises, almost approaching to certainties, concerning the timeliest day to be upon this or that ground in search of his prey.
-- No possible endeavor then could enable her commander to make the great passage southwards, double Cape Horn, and then running down sixty degrees of latitude arrive in the equatorial Pacific in time to cruise there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The follow touched his hat with a grin, expecting something for his pains; but, the old gentleman, eyeing him with an expression of dislike, look anxiously round, as if he contemplated running away himself: which it is very possible he might have attempted to do, and thus have afforded another chase, had not a police officer (who is generally the last person to arrive in such cases) at that moment made his way through the crowd, and seized Oliver by the collar.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But may we not hope that the period of future happiness to which Miss Bingley looks forward may arrive earlier than she is aware, and that the delightful intercourse you have known as friends will be renewed with yet greater satisfaction as sisters?
-- Before any answer could arrive from Mr. Collins, or any congratulations to Elizabeth from his wife, the Longbourn family heard that the Collinses were come themselves to Lucas Lodge.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had a small runlet or two, as I observed before; but I could never arrive at the capacity of making one by them, though I spent many weeks about it; I could neither put in the heads, or join the staves so true to one another as to make them hold water; so I gave that also over.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Says the king: 'Seein' how I'm dressed, I reckon maybe I better arrive down from St. Louis or Cincinnati, or some other big place.
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