plump是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 丰满的; 鼓起的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whereat Scrooge's niece's sister the plump one with the lace tucker: not the one with the roses blushed.
-- Scrooge's nephew revelled in another laugh, and as it was impossible to keep the infection off; though the plump sister tried hard to do it with aromatic vinegar; his example was unanimously followed.
-- The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker, was an outrage on the credulity of hu-man nature.
-- He always knew where the plump sister was.
-- If you had fallen up against him (as some of them did), on purpose, he would have made a feint of en-deavouring to seize you, which would have been an affront to your understanding, and would instantly have sidled off in the direction of the plump sister.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said Stryver, with a plump of his fist on the desk.
-- The short, rather plump wife of a starved grocer, and the mother of two children withal, this lieutenant had already earned the complimentary name of The Vengeance.
-- So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article, and, if it happened not to be the name of the thing she wanted, to look round for that thing, lay hold of it, and hold on by it until the bargain was concluded.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow," he said, checking for a minute the sleek, plump hand of the barber, cutting a pink path through his long, curly whiskers.
-- "Oh, Agafea Mihalovna," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, kissing the tips of his plump fingers, "what salt goose, what herb brandy!...What do yo think, isn't it time to start, Kostya?"
-- said the plump officer, sitting down beside him.
-- The plump officer took up the list of wines and turned to the young officer.
-- The plump officer rose submissively, and they moved towards the door.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Their hostess was a plump woman with an air of worried trustfulness.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her mouth were the lips red or pale, plump or creased? had curved itself to a certain expression as the pen went on the corners had moved with all their natural tremulousness: what had been the expression?
-- THE HOLLOW AMID THE FERNSThe hill opposite Bathsheba's dwelling extended, a mile off, into an uncultivated tract of land, dotted at this season with tall thickets of brake fern, plump and diaphanous from recent rapid growth, and radiant in hues of clear and untainted green.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Vauquer and her plump handmaid.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her neck was short but rounded and her arms plump and enticing.
-- What a pity legs could not be shown, she thought, pulling up her petticoats andregretfully viewing them, plump and neat under pantalets.
-- Even the excitement caused by the swooning spell that overtookCharles' plump emotional aunt, Miss Pittypat Hamilton, had the quality of a nightmare.
-- Plump Miss Pittypat was teetering excitedly on tiny feet, one hand pressed to her copious bosom tostill her fluttering heart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- (I thought this pretty well in him who had been praising up the pork for being so plump and juicy.)
-- "And yet when he went from here (I may say with my blessing), and I spread afore him my humble store, like the Bee, he was as plump as a Peach!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So he laid the stone carefully by his side on the bank: but, as he stooped down to drink, he forgot it, pushed it a little, and down it rolled, plump into the stream.
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