pleasure是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 愉快, 快乐; 乐事, 乐趣,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:
-- SIR, If you will consent to join the Abraham Lincoln in this expedition, the Government of the United States will with pleasure see France represented in the enterprise.
-- "You will find these same instruments in my own room, Professor, where I shall have much pleasure in explaining their use to you.
-- "Of course; an excellent vessel, light and insubmersible, that serves either as a fishing or as a pleasure boat."
-- He hopes that nothing will prevent the Professor from being present, and he will with pleasure see him joined by his companions.
-- I did not seek him!It is not for my pleasure that I keep him on board!As for you, M. Aronnax, you are one of those who can understand everything, even silence.
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:
-- He seemed to take pleasure in his social functions, he smiled, and was abundant in hospitality.
-- Garn, it's nothing, man, don't give her the pleasure of letting her think she's performed a feat don't give her the satisfaction, man it's just what she wants."
-- To me the pleasure of knowing is so great, so wonderful nothing has meant so much to me in all life, as certain knowledge no, I am sure nothing."
-- She was aware of the talk going on, ceaselessly, Joshua's voice dominating; of the ceaseless pitter-patter of women's light laughter and responses; of the brilliant colours and the white table and the shadow above and below; and she seemed in a swoon of gratification, convulsed with pleasure and yet sick, like a revenant.
-- He knew that Hermione had a curious pleasure in treading down all the social differences, at least apparently, and he left it to her.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was slender, and apparently scarcely past girlhood: an admirable form, and the most exquisite little face that I have ever had the pleasure of beholding; small features, very fair; flaxen ringlets, or rather golden, hanging loose on her delicate neck; and eyes, had they been agreeable in expression, that would have been irresistible: fortunately for my susceptible heart, the only sentiment they evinced hovered between scorn and a kind of desperation, singularly unnatural to be detected there.
-- I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
-- Indeed, he would have carpeted and papered a small spare room for a parlour; but his wife expressed such pleasure at the white floor and huge glowing fireplace, at the pewter dishes and delf case, and dog kennel, and the wide space there was to move about in where they usually sat, that he thought it unnecessary to her comfort, and so dropped the intention.
-- Nobody but I even did him the kindness to call him a dirty boy, and bid him wash himself, once a week; and children of his age seldom have a natural pleasure in soap and water.
-- We got rid of all gloom in the excitement of the exercise, and our pleasure was increased by the arrival of the Gimmerton band, mustering fifteen strong: a trumpet, a trombone, clarionets, bassoons, French horns, and a bass viol, besides singers.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Any of the under-gamekeepers would gladly have changed places with him; but such was not the squire's pleasure, and the squire's pleasure was like law among them all.
-- All this time he had been feeling the stuff of my jacket, smoothing my hands, looking at my boots, and generally, in the intervals of his speech, showing a childish pleasure in the presence of a fellow creature.
-- I think I was a good, prompt subaltern, and I am very sure that Hands was an excellent pilot, for we went about and about and dodged in, shaving the banks, with a certainty and a neatness that were a pleasure to behold.
-- "Well, well," he said at last, "duty first and pleasure afterwards, as you might have said yourself, Silver.
-- It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones's hoard for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so much more varied that I think I never had more pleasure than in sorting them.
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