involve是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 包含; 使卷入; 牵涉,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:
-- Tokens of sterility were not the least on the decrease, and the want of water might involve serious calamities.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet the very means by which he hoped to make this change threatened to involve him in even greater difficulties than he had had before.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Scrooge asked the question, because he didn't know whether a ghost so transparent might find himself in a con-dition to take a chair; and felt that in the event of its being impossible, it might involve the necessity of an embarrass-ing explanation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'But may not mind!I ask for information, as a plodding man of business who only deals with such material objects as guineas, shillings, and bank-notes may not the reten-tion of the thing involve the retention of the idea?
-- It is easy to foresee that the pretence will be the common one, a prison plot, and that it will involve her life and perhaps her child's and perhaps her father's for both have been seen with her at that place.
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:
-- Go, brave men, we owe you too much already; let us no longer involve you in our hapless fortunes!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I know that it will involve manyprivations and inconveniences.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She would have been too happy but for poor Harriet; but every blessing of her own seemed to involve and advance the sufferings of her friend, who must now be even excluded from Hartfield.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such a purchase would involve not only a great legitimate political influence, but some half-dozen church presentations of considerable annual value.
-- How, having often found two exactly similar names, even belonging to the same place, to involve no traceable consanguinity, near or distant, he did not at first give much heed to this, except in the way of speculation as to what a surprising change would be made in the condition of a little seamstress, if she could be shown to have any interest in so large a property.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But such a supposition did by no means involve the remotest suspicion as to any boat's crew being assigned to that boat.
-- To some the general interest in the White Whale was now wildly heightened by a circumstance of the Town-Ho's story, which seemed obscurely to involve with the whale a certain wondrous, inverted visitation of one of those so called judgments of God which at times are said to overtake some men.
-- I know that this would sometimes involve a slight loss of speed in the chase; but long experience in various whalemen of more than one nation has convinced me that in the vast majority of failures in the fishery, it has not by any means been so much the speed of the whale as the before described exhaustion of the harpooneer that has caused them.
-- Nevertheless, as the second iron is already connected with the line, and the line is running, hence that weapon must, at all events, be anticipatingly tossed out of the boat, somehow and somewhere; else the most terrible jeopardy would involve all hands.
-- It may be but an idle whim, but it has always seemed to me, that the extraordinary vacillations of movement displayed by some whales when beset by three or four boats; the timidity and liability to queer frights, so common to such whales; I think that all this indirectly proceeds from the helpless perplexity of volition, in which their divided and diametrically opposite powers of vision must involve them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER XXVII ATONES FOR THE UNPOLITENESS OF A FORMER CHAPTER; WHICH DESERTED A LADY, MOST UNCEREMONIOUSLY As it would be, by no means, seemly in a humble author to keep so mighty a personage as a beadle waiting, with his back to the fire, and the skirts of his coat gathered up under his arms, until such time as it might suit his pleasure to relieve him; and as it would still less become his station, or his gallantry to involve in the same neglect a lady on whom that beadle had looked with an eye of tenderness and affection, and in whose ear he had whispered sweet words, which, coming from such a quarter, might well thrill the bosom of maid or matron of whatsoever degree; the historian whose pen traces these words--trusting that he knows his place, and that he entertains a becoming reverence for those upon earth to whom high and important authority is delegated--hastens to pay them that respect which their position demands, and to treat them with all that duteous ceremony which their exalted rank, and (by consequence) great virtues, imperatively claim at his hands.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Do not involve yourself or endeavour to involve him in an affection which the want of fortune would make so very imprudent.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- or have you none but that of waiting for Mrs. Ferrars's death, which is a melancholy and shocking extremity? Is her son determined to submit to this, and to all the tediousness of the many years of suspense in which it may involve you, rather than run the risk of her displeasure for a while by owning the truth?"
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