youth是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 青年; 年轻人,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shriv-elled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achieve-ments as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, be-cause he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
-- To be confronted with such pity, and such earnest youth and beauty, was far more trying to the accused than to be confronted with all the crowd.
-- Mr. Lorry knew Miss Pross to be very jealous, but he also knew her by this time to be, beneath the service of her eccentricity, one of those unselfish creatures found only among women who will, for pure love and admiration, bind themselves willing slaves, to youth when they have lost it, to beauty that they never had, to accomplishments that they were never fortunate enough to gain, to bright hopes that never shone upon their own sombre lives.
-- On a day in August, when Mr. Stryver (after notifying to his jackal that 'he had thought better of that marrying mat-ter') had carried his delicacy into Devonshire, and when the sight and scent of flowers in the City streets had some waifs of goodness in them for the worst, of health for the sickli-est, and of youth for the oldest, Sydney's feet still trod those stones.
-- Here is a fellow, who, infected by the most pestilent and blasphemous code of devilry that ever was known, aban-doned his property to the vilest scum of the earth that ever did murder by wholesale, and you ask me why I am sorry that a man who instructs youth knows him?
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And the Tree beheld all the beauty of the flowers, and the freshness in the garden; he beheld himself, and wished he had remained in his dark corner in the loft; he thought of his first youth in the wood, of the merry Christmas-eve, and of the little Mice who had listened with so much plea-sure to the story of Humpy-Dumpy.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Yes, my dear boy," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, nodding his head, "he's a lucky fellow!Over six thousand acres in the Karazinsky district; everything before him; and what youth and vigor!Not like some of us."
-- "I know a gallant steed by tokens sure, And by his eyes I know a youth in love," declaimed Stepan Arkadyevitch.
-- "Vronsky is one of the sons of Count Kirill Ivanovitch Vronsky, and one of the finest specimens of the gilded youth of Petersburg.
-- His mother had been in her youth a brilliant society woman, who had had during her married life, and still more afterwards, many love affairs notorious in the whole fashionable world.
-- "I know a gallant steed by tokens sure, And by his eyes I know a youth in love," declaimed Stepan Arkadyevitch, just as he had done before to Levin.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On this very 2nd of October he had dismissed James Forster, because that luckless youth had brought him shaving-water at eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit instead of eighty-six; and he was awaiting his successor, who was due at the house between eleven and half-past.
-- His old vagabond nature returned to him; the fantastic ideas of his youth once more took possession of him.
-- Her narrow and supple waist, which a hand may clasp around, sets forth the outline of her rounded figure and the beauty of her bosom, where youth in its flower displays the wealth of its treasures; and beneath the silken folds of her tunic she seems to have been modelled in pure silver by the godlike hand of Vicvarcarma, the immortal sculptor."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It's sort of Youth going.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The shy, un-known youth found himself instantly something of a celebrity.
-- 'Your attitude to crime is pretty clear to me now, but 芒聙娄 excuse me for my imper-tinence (I am really ashamed to be worrying you like this), you see, you've removed my anxiety as to the two grades getting mixed, but 芒聙娄 there are various practical possi-bilities that make me uneasy!What if some man or youth imagines that he is a Lycurgus or Mahomet a future one of course and suppose he begins to remove all obstacles芒聙娄.
-- 'And to be sure you're right: God has given me a figure that can awaken none but comic ideas in other people; a buffoon; but let me tell you, and I repeat it, excuse an old man, my dear Rodion Romanovitch, you are a 482 Crime and Punishmentman still young, so to say, in your first youth and so you put intellect above everything, like all young people.
-- 'He's boozed,' a youth near him observed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Can I say she ever changed, when 31my remembrance brings her back to life, thus only; and, truer to itsloving youth than I have been, or man ever is, still holds fast whatit cherished then?
-- I discovered,however, that this youth had not been christened by that name, butthat it had been bestowed upon him in the warehouse, on accountof his complexion, which was pale or mealy.
-- But for the quiet pictureI had conjured up, of my mother in her youth and beauty, weepingby the fire, and my aunt relenting to her, I hardly think I shouldhave had courage to go on until next day.
-- I was going tosuggest, with a modest sense of my youth and the familiarity I hadbeen already guilty of, that I had better give him the full benefit ofthat name, when my aunt went on to say- 'But don't you call himby it, whatever you do.
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