where是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 在哪/那里conj. /pron. 哪里conj. 然而,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:
-- Nobody contradicted him, as he was supposed to know; but Lady Helena exclaimed, "What does it matter about the bottle, if we don't know where it comes from?"
-- "But I want to know where from?"
-- "Yes, but unfortunately there are whole lines wanting," said the Major, "and we have neither the name of the ship nor the place where she was shipwrecked."
-- "But where are the poor fellows?
-- We have not the slightest indication of the place, meantime, nor of where the catastrophe happened."
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 moon was shining bright upon the clearing, and there in the centre lay the unhappy maid where she had fallen, dead of fear and of fatigue.
-- In these days of nouveaux riches it is refreshing to find a case where the scion of an old county family which has fallen upon evil days is able to make his own fortune and to bring it back with him to restore the fallen grandeur of his line.
-- So excited and alarmed was he that I was compelled to go down to the spot where the animal had been and look around for it.
-- I followed the footsteps down the Yew Alley, I saw the spot at the moor-gate where he seemed to have wait-ed, I remarked the change in the shape of the prints after that point, I noted that there were no other footsteps save those of Barrymore on the soft gravel, and finally I carefully examined the body, which had not been touched until my arrival.
-- Where do you think that I have been?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'And where have you come to?'
-- They are people who know everyone that is, they know where a man is employed, what his salary is, whom he knows, whom he married, what money his wife had, who are his cousins, and second cousins, etc., etc.
-- I ran away from my father and came to Pskoff to my aunt's house, where I caved in at once with fever, and he went and died while I was away.
-- 'Oh well, look here, if I have some time to wait, would you mind telling me, is there any place about where I could have a smoke?
-- 'May I ask where you have taken up your quarters?'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As he spoke he wept aloud, and his mother heard him where she was sitting in the depths of the sea hard by the old man her father.
-- Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight.
-- When they had come inside the harbour they furled the sails and laid them in the ship's hold; they slackened the forestays, lowered the mast into its place, and rowed the ship to the place where they would have her lie; there they cast out their mooring-stones and made fast the hawsers.
-- Thetis was not un-mindful of the charge her son had laid upon her, so she rose from under the sea and went through great heaven with early morning to Olympus, where she found the mighty son of Saturn sitting all alone upon its topmost ridges.
-- Where are our covenants now, and where the oaths that we have taken?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She could not see his face where she stood.
-- "I wonder where you found it," said Mrs. Hall.
-- "That I wonder where you found it," said Mrs. Hall.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Home is near, and I'm going where Father is waiting for me.
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