heart是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 心(脏) ; 内心, 感情; 热忱; 中心, 要点,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I scrambled out at last on the westward bank, and with my heart beating loudly in my ears, crept into a tangle of ferns to await the issue.
-- In fact, he did not like men: his heart had warmed to me, he thought, because he had saved my life.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He loved better than any-thing else to go with Bagheera into the dark warm heart of the forest, to sleep all through the drowsy day, and at night see how Bagheera did his killing.
-- It is in my heart that when Akela miss-es his next kill and at each hunt it costs him more to pin the buck the Pack will turn against him and against thee.
-- Mowgli was far and far through the forest, running hard, and his heart was hot in him.
-- So Mowgli sat and cried as though his heart would break; and he had never cried in all his life before.
-- Sick and giddy as Mowgli was he could not help enjoying the wild rush, though the glimpses of earth far down below frightened him, and the terrible check and jerk at the end of the swing over noth-ing but empty air brought his heart between his teeth.
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:
-- Chapter 1 'Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared: The worst is wordly loss thou canst unfold: Say, is my kingdom lost?'
-- 'The death of the colt sits heavy on the heart of its owner,' said the scout; 'but it's a good sign to see a man account upon his dumb friends.
-- 'No, no!the life is in his heart yet, and after he has slept awhile he will come to himself, and be a wiser man for it, till the hour of his real time shall come,' returned Hawkeye, casting another oblique glance at the insensible body, while he filled his charger with admirable nicety.
-- Exerting his renovated powers to their utmost, he was yet filling the arches of the cave with long and full tones, when a yell burst into the air without, that instantly stilled his pious strains, choking his voice suddenly, as though his heart had literally bounded into the passage of his throat.
-- 'Was it war, when the tired Indian rested at the sugartree to taste his corn!who filled the bushes with creeping en-emies!who drew the knife, whose tongue was peace, while his heart was colored with blood!Did Magua say that the hatchet was out of the ground, and that his hand had dug it up?'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ichahod Crane had a soft and foolish heart towards the sex; and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a mor-sel soon found favor in his eyes, more especially after he had visited her in her paternal mansion.
-- As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness.
-- When he entered the house, the conquest of his heart was complete.
-- In this enterprise, however, he had more real difficulties than generally fell to the lot of a knight-errant of yore, who seldom had anything but giants, enchanters, fiery dragons, and such like easily conquered adversaries, to contend with and had to make his way mere-ly through gates of iron and brass, and walls of adamant to the castle keep, where the lady of his heart was confined; all which he achieved as easily as a man would carve his way to the centre of a Christmas pie; and then the lady gave him her hand as a matter of course.
-- Ichabod, on the con-trary, had to win his way to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments; and he had to encounter a host of fearful adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her heart, keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His heart warms to him when he can bring forward some example of cruelty or meanness, and he exults like an inquisitor at the auto da fe of an heretic when with some forgotten story he can confound the filial piety of the Rev.
-- In my heart was a desire to live more dangerously.
-- I felt she must be suffering, and I did not want to see a pain which I could not help; but in my heart was a desire, that I felt a little ashamed of, to see how she was taking it.
-- Even if he was tired of me, I wonder that he had the heart to leave them.
-- I could not decide whether she desired the return of her husband because she loved him, or because she dreaded the tongue of scandal; and I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid to my young mind, of wounded vanity.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At that moment a loud voice, the voice of a man whose heart was inaccessible to fear, was heard.
-- responded Herbert, whose pious heart was full of gratitude to the Author of all things.
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