necessity是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 必要性, 需要; 必然性; (pl. ) 必需品,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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a great consolation that Mr. Elton should not be really in love with her, or so particularly amiable as to make it shocking to disappoint him that Harriet's nature should not be of that superior sort in which the feelings are most acute and retentive and that there could be no necessity for any body's knowing what had passed except the three principals, and especially for her father's being given a mo-ment's uneasiness about it.
-- They must be separated; but there was a great deal of pain in the process so much to herself at this time, that she soon felt the necessity of a little consolation, and resolved on going home by way of Randalls to procure it.
-- 'There is no necessity for my calling this morning,' said the young man; 'another day would do as well; but there was that degree of acquaintance at Weymouth which ' 'Oh!go to-day, go to-day.
-- Mr. Woodhouse soon followed; and the necessity of exertion made him com-posed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It may be mentioned that Oak's fob being difficult of access, by reason of its somewhat high situation in the waistband of his trousers (which also lay at a remote height under his waistcoat), the watch was as a necessity pulled out by throwing the body to one side, compressing the mouth and face to a mere mass of ruddy flesh on account of the exertion required, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well.
-- There was no necessity whatever for her looking in the glass.
-- The performer seemed quite at home anywhere between a horse's head and its tail, and the necessity for this abnormal attitude having ceased with the passage of the plantation, she began to adopt another, even more obviously convenient than the first.
-- One night, when Farmer Oak had returned to his house, believing there would be no further necessity for his attendance on the down, he called as usual to the dogs, previously to shutting them up in the outhouse till next morning.
-- There was no necessity for any continuance of speech, and the fact that she did add more seemed to proceed from an unconscious desire to show unconcern by making a remark, which is noticeable in the ingenuous when they are acting by stealth.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At that age I became acquainted with the celebrated poets of our own country; but it was only when it had ceased to be in my power to derive its most important benefits from such a conviction that I perceived the necessity of becoming acquainted with more languages than that of my native country.
-- I had heard of some discoveries having been made by an English philoso-pher, the knowledge of which was material to my success, and I sometimes thought of obtaining my father's consent to visit England for this purpose; but I clung to every pre-tence of delay and shrank from taking the first step in an undertaking whose immediate necessity began to appear less absolute to me.
-- I remembered also the necessity imposed upon me of either journeying to England or entering into a long corre-spondence with those philosophers of that country whose knowledge and discoveries were of indispensable use to me in my present undertaking.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The fat cook, a yard negro elevated by necessity to the kitchen, never had the mealson time, and the chambermaid, formerly a field hand, let dust accumulate on the furniture and never seemed to haveclean linen on hand, so that the arrival of guests was always the occasion of much stirring and to-do.
-- In fact, themothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyedcreatures.
-- He tried to think of something to say and couldn't, and silently he blessed her because she kept up a steadychatter which relieved him of any necessity for conversation.
-- And so there's no necessity forbroken bric-a-brac."
-- Scarlett and Melanie both were thinking ofAshley, as they always did when urgent tasks or the necessity of carrying on a conversation did not divert them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The guilty knowledge that I was going to rob Mrs. Joe--I never thought I was going to rob Joe, for I never thought of any of the housekeeping property as his--united to the necessity of always keeping one hand on my bread and butter as I sat, or when I was ordered about the kitchen on any small errand, almost drove me out of my mind.
-- There was no indispensable necessity for my communicating with Joe by letter, inasmuch as he sat beside me and we were alone.
-- It is considered that you must be better educated, in accordance with your altered position, and that you will be alive to the importance and necessity of at once entering on that advantage."
-- She gave me to understand on the stairs, that it was a blow to dear Mrs. Pocket that dear Mr. Pocket should be under the necessity of receiving gentlemen to read with him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The reader may remember, that when I signed those ar-ticles upon which I recovered my liberty, there were some which I disliked, upon account of their being too servile; neither could anything but an extreme necessity have forced me to submit.
-- In this necessity I was forced to swim be-hind, and push the boat forward, as often as I could, with one of my hands; and the tide favouring me, I advanced so far that I could just hold up my chin and feel the ground.
-- We had one violent storm, and were under a necessity of steering westward to get into the trade wind, which holds for above sixty leagues.
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