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:
-- 'I could sleep in peace,' whispered Alice, in reply, 'with such a fearless and generous-looking youth for my sentinel.
-- I have no father to expect me, and but few friends to lament a fate which I have courted with the in-satiable longings of youth after distinction.
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:
-- Youth has turned to gods we of an earlier day knew not, and it is possible to see already the direction in which those who come after us will move.
-- I admire their polish their youth is already so accomplished that it seems absurd to speak of promise I marvel at the felicity of their style; but with all their copiousness (their vocabulary suggests that they fingered Roget's Thesaurus in their cradles) they say nothing to me: to my mind they know too much and feel too obviously; I cannot stomach the heartiness with which they slap me on the back or the emotion with which they hurl themselves on my bosom; their passion seems to me a little anaemic and their dreams a trifle dull.
-- She had led a very quiet youth in the country, and the books that came down from Mudie's Library brought with them not only their own romance, but the romance of London.
-- It was natural that I should take chances; but he was a man whose youth was past, a stockbroker with a position of respectability, a wife and two children.
-- I had the appetite of youth and he of a hardened conscience.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was pleasant to observe the fresh flowers in the room, the pet bird with a green bough shading his little cage, the breath of freshness and youth which seemed to rustle through the old dull house and hover round the child.
-- This Toby has been stolen in youth from another gentleman, and fraudulently sold to the confiding hero, who having no guile himself has no suspicion that it lurks in others; but Toby, entertaining a grateful recollection of his old master, and scorning to attach himself to any new patrons, not only refuses to smoke a pipe at the bidding of Punch, but to mark his old fidelity more strongly, seizes him by the nose and wrings the same with violence, at which instance of canine attachment the spectators are deeply affected.
-- In mind, she was of a strong and vigorous turn, having from her earliest youth devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.
-- The baby in her arms was as fast asleep as she; and little Jacob, whose youth prevented him from recognising in this prolonged spiritual nourishment anything half as interesting as oysters, was alternately very fast asleep and very wide awake, as his inclination to slumber, or his terror of being personally alluded to in the discourse, gained the mastery over him.
-- Heaven strengthened it to repay the sacrifices of inconsiderate youth by one of thoughtful manhood.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was agreeable to feel the power of authority over so vast an estate, and it was disagreeable, because in his youth he was an enthusiastic adherent of Herbert Spencer, and being himself a large land owner, was struck by the proposition in Social Statics that private ownership of land is contrary to the dictates of justice.
-- During that summer Nekhludoff experienced that exaltation which youth comes to know not by the teaching of others, but when it naturally begins to recognize the beauty and importance of life, and man's serious place in it; when it sees the possibility of infinite perfection of which the world is capable, and devotes itself to that endeavor, not only with the hope, but with a full conviction of reaching that perfection which it imagines possible.
-- For the same reason she drove from her mind all recollection of her first youth and her first relations to Nekhludoff.
-- He was already past his youth when he met Nekhludoff abroad, made Natalie, who was also not very young, to fall in love with him, and married her almost against the wish of her mother, who said that it would be a m脙漏salliance.
-- And true to his convictions, he had been performing this function since he became convinced of the truth of the theory, although as a youth he had led a different life.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 茫聙聙TO THE HESITATING PURCHASERIf sailor tales to sailor tunes,Storm and adventure, heat and cold,If schooners, islands, and maroons,And buccaneers, and buried gold,And all the old romance, retoldExactly in the ancient way,Can please, as me they pleased of old,The wiser youngsters of today:茫聙聙 So be it, and fall on!If not,If studious youth no longer crave,His ancient appetites forgot,Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,Or Cooper of the wood and wave:So be it, also!And may IAnd all my pirates share the graveWhere these and their creations lie!
-- Once, for instance, to our extreme wonder, he piped up to a different air, a kind of country love-song that he must have learned in his youth before he had begun to follow the sea.
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:
-- The youth stood aside, his face expressionless and timeless, the thin line of the black moustache drawn strangely suggestive over his rather wide, closed mouth.
-- But this one living grain in him matched the perfect youth in her.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This was worse than before: the youth grew crimson, and clenched his fist, with every appearance of a meditated assault.
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