caution是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 小心; 告诫, 警告,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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I want to warn you," he said in a low voice, "that through thoughtlessness and lack of caution you may cause yourself to be talked about in society.
-- the countess addressed him with a softness and caution that impressed Oblonsky.
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:
-- Almost every criminal is subject to a failure of will and rea-soning power by a childish and phenomenal heedlessness, at the very instant when prudence and caution are most es-sential.
-- 'I believe it's a sort of legal rule, a sort of legal tra-dition for all investigating lawyers to begin their attack from afar, with a trivial, or at least an irrelevant subject, so as to encourage, or rather, to divert the man they are cross-examining, to disarm his caution and then all at once to give him an unexpected knock-down blow with some fatal question.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now I must caution you that if you abet himonce, you abet him for good and all; if you step in between himand me, now, you must step in, Miss Trotwood, for ever.
-- I feel as if itwere some one else speaking to you, and not I, when I caution youthat you have made a dangerous friend.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She re-membered what Mr. Knightley had once said to her about Mr. Elton, the caution he had given, the conviction he had professed that Mr. Elton would never marry indiscreetly; and blushed to think how much truer a knowledge of his character had been there shewn than any she had reached herself.
-- I give you this caution now, because I shall never speak to you again on the subject.
-- 'Why should you caution me? You do not think I care about Mr. Frank Churchill.'
-- He had despaired at one period; he had received such an injunction to caution and silence, as for the time crushed every hope; she had begun by refus-ing to hear him. The change had perhaps been somewhat sudden; her proposal of taking another turn, her renew-ing the conversation which she had just put an end to, might be a little extraordinary! She felt its inconsistency; but Mr. Knightley was so obliging as to put up with it, and seek no farther explanation.
-- While I, to blind the world to our en-gagement, was behaving one hour with objectionable particularity to another woman, was she to be consenting the next to a proposal which might have made every previ-ous caution useless? Had we been met walking together between Donwell and Highbury, the truth must have been suspected. I was mad enough, however, to resent. I doubted her affection.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Bathsheba, after throwing a glance here, a caution there, and lecturing one of the younger operators who had allowed his last finished sheep to go off among the flock without re-stamping it with her initials, came again to Gabriel, as he put down the luncheon to drag a frightened ewe to his shear-station, flinging it over upon its back with a dexterous twist of the arm.
-- The tracks were absolutely the only guide as to the direction that they now had, and great caution was necessary to avoid confusing them with some others which had made their appearance lately.
-- Bathsheba was full of a stimulating turbulence, beside which caution vainly prayed for a hearing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For some days, I even kept close at home, and looked out at the kitchen door with the greatest caution and trepidation before going on an errand, lest the officers of the County Jail should pounce upon me.
-- "I communicated to Magwitch--in New South Wales--when he first wrote to me--from New South Wales--the caution that he must not expect me ever to deviate from the strict line of fact.
-- "Then, I have talked with Wemmick," said I, "and have come to tell you what caution he gave me and what advice."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He considered awhile, with the caution of one who endea-vours to lay hold on a small dangerous animal in such a manner that it shall not be able either to scratch or bite him, as I myself have sometimes done with a weasel in England.
-- This caution is necessary, to prevent the country from being overburdened with numbers.
-- But this description, I confess, does by no means affect the British nation, who may be an example to the whole world for their wisdom, care, and justice in planting col-onies; their liberal endowments for the advancement of religion and learning; their choice of devout and able pas-tors to propagate Christianity; their caution in stocking their provinces with people of sober lives and conversations from this the mother kingdom; their strict regard to the distribution of justice, in supplying the civil administra-tion through all their colonies with officers of the greatest abilities, utter strangers to corruption; and, to crown all, by sending the most vigilant and virtuous governors, who have no other views than the happiness of the people over whom they preside, and the honour of the king their master.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- the caution from one man, 'Slackbridge, y'or over hetter in't; y'or a goen too fast!'
-- But, caution being necessary in communicating with him for there was a greater danger every moment of his being suspected now, and nobody could be sure at heart but that Mr. Bounderby himself, in a bullying vein of public zeal, might play a Roman part it was consented that Sissy and Louisa should repair to the place in question, by a circuitous course, alone; and that the unhappy father, setting forth in an opposite direction, should get round to the same bourne by another and wider route.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was 'only a plasterer,' Little Dorrit said, as a caution to him not to form high social expectations of Plornish.
-- 'No doubt, no doubt,' said Mr Meagles, with the caution belonging to the scales and scoop.
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