haughty是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 傲慢的, 轻蔑的,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:
-- He was in his fifth edition, and betrayed it in his haughty bearing.
-- His companions were worthy of him; they entered into his lofty views; and judging by their haughty demeanor, it would scarcely have been supposed that they were hurrying to the final catastrophe.
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 lady stood by in haughty silence.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Up to now she had been so haughty that she had never even asked Gania to introduce her to his par-ents.
-- This poor feeble boy of eighteen exhausted by disease looked for all the world as weak and frail as a leaflet torn from its par-ent tree and trembling in the breeze; but no sooner had his eye swept over his audience, for the first time during the whole of the last hour, than the most contemptuous, the most haughty expression of repugnance lighted up his face.
-- When, therefore, she was bound to talk, especially at such delicate moments as this, she invariably did so with an air of haughty defiance.
-- He could not believe that this was the same haughty young girl who had once so proudly shown him Gania's let-ter.
-- He looked with hate and loathing on the poverty and downfall of his family, and treated his mother with haughty con-tempt, although he knew that his whole future depended on her character and reputation.
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:
-- Though his person was more than usually screened by a green and fringed hunting-shirt, like that of the white man, there was no concealment to his dark, glancing, fearless eye, alike terrible and calm; the bold outline of his high, haughty features, pure in their native red; or to the dignified elevation of his receding fore-head, together with all the finest proportions of a noble head, bared to the generous scalping tuft.
-- A quiet smile lighted the haughty features of the young Mohican, betraying his knowledge of the English language as well as of the other's meaning; but he suffered it to pass away without vindication of reply.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They came down-stairs with powder before them and powder behind, the elder sister haughty and the younger sister humbled, and were shut out into unpowdered Harley Street, Cavendish Square.
-- It made such a painful impression upon him to hear her talking in this haughty tone, and to see her patting her contemptuous lips with her fan, that he said very earnestly, 'Believe me, ma'am, this is unjust, a perfectly groundless suspicion.'
-- Merdle!The landlord, though a gentleman of a haughty spirit who had just driven a pair of thorough-bred horses into town, turned out to show him up-stairs.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No one knew me, for I disguised my voice, and no one dreamed of the si-lent, haughty Miss March (for they think I am very stiff and cool, most of them, and so I am to whippersnappers) could dance and dress, and burst out into a 'nice derangement of epitaphs, like an allegory on the banks of the Nile'.
-- Haughty English, lively French, sober Germans, handsome Spaniards, ugly Russians, meek Jews, free-and-easy Americans, all drive, sit, or saunter here, chat-ting over the news, and criticzing the latest celebrity who has arrived Ristori or Dickens, Victor Emmanuel or the Queen of the Sandwich Islands.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!For sleeping man, 'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights.
-- Then gazing at his quadrant, and handling, one after the other, its numerous cabalistical contrivances, he pondered again, and muttered: "Foolish toy!babies' plaything of haughty Admirals, and Commodores, and Captains; the world brags of thee, of thy cunning and might; but what after all canst thou do, but tell the poor, pitiful point, where thou thyself happenest to be on this wide planet, and the hand that holds thee: no!not one jot more!Thou canst not tell where one drop of water or one grain of sand will be to-morrow noon; and yet with thy impotence thou insultest the sun!Science!Curse thee, thou vain toy; and cursed be all the things that cast man's eyes aloft to that heaven, whose live vividness but scorches him, as these old eyes are even now scorched with thy light, O sun!Level by nature to this earth's horizon are the glances of man's eyes; not shot from the crown of his head, as if God had meant him to gaze on his firmament.
-- Here again with haughty agony, I read my sire.
-- Oh!ye three unsurrendered spires of mine; thou uncracked keel; and only god-bullied hull; thou firm deck, and haughty helm, and Pole-pointed prow, death-glorious ship!must ye then perish, and without me?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I couldn't do it,' said the Dodger, with an air of haughty disgust.
-- At this, the two women-servants lifted up their hands and eyes, and supposed that Mr. Giles, pulling out his shirt-frill, replied, 'No, no'; and that if they observed that he was at all haughty to his inferiors, he would thank them to tell him so.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had by that time reached it also, and, holding out a letter, which she instinctively took, said, with a look of haughty composure, 'I have been walking in the grove some time in the hope of meeting you.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But perseverance in humility of conduct and messages, in self-condemnation for Robert's offence, and gratitude for the unkindness she was treated with, procured her in time the haughty notice which overcame her by its graciousness, and led soon afterwards, by rapid degrees, to the highest state of affection and influence.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Misfortune has broken my once haughty spirit; I yield, I submit; 'tis my fate.
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