shake是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 摇动, 摇; 颤抖, 震动,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《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And now, when they were all in lively anticipation of "the two villains" being taken, and when the bellows seemed to roar for the fugitives, the fire to flare for them, the smoke to hurry away in pursuit of them, Joe to hammer and clink for them, and all the murky shadows on the wall to shake at them in menace as the blaze rose and sank, and the red-hot sparks dropped and died, the pale afternoon outside almost seemed in my pitying young fancy to have turned pale on their account, poor wretches.
-- added Joe, with a shake of the head that was full of meaning, "and begun at A too, and worked his way to Z.
-- I was fully old enough now to be apprenticed to Joe; and when Joe sat with the poker on his knees thoughtfully raking out the ashes between the lower bars, my sister would so distinctly construe that innocent action into opposition on his part, that she would dive at him, take the poker out of his hands, shake him, and put it away.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then he will be very joyful; and you will mount the golden horse that they are to give you, and put out your hand to take leave of them; but shake hands with the princess last.
-- 'Shake me, shake me, I pray,' cried the tree; 'my apples, one and all, are ripe.'
-- You must be very care-ful, however, to make my bed in the right way, for I wish you always to shake it thoroughly, so that the feathers fly about; then they say, down there in the world, that it is snowing; for I am Mother Holle.'
-- 'Shake me, shake me, I pray; my apples, one and all, are ripe,' it cried.
-- Worse still, she neglected to make the old woman's bed properly, and forgot to shake it so that the feathers might fly about.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the ex-tremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princ-es of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: his most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to perform:- '1st, The man-mountain shall not depart from our do-minions, without our license under our great seal.
-- My master, after some expressions of great indignation, wondered 'how we dared to venture upon a Houyhnhnm's back; for he was sure, that the weakest servant in his house would be able to shake off the strongest Yahoo; or by lying down and rolling on his back, squeeze the brute to death.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'A speaker, if the gentleman likes it better,' said Mr. E. W. B. Childers, superciliously throwing the interpretation over his shoulder, and accompanying it with a shake of his long hair which all shook at once.
-- 'I do not, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit with a shake of her head, 'deny it.'
-- Mr. and Miss Gradgrind being then announced, he received the former with a shake of the hand, and the latter with a kiss.
-- With a very different shake of the head and deep sigh, Stephen said, 'Thank you, sir, I wish you good day.'
-- She asked him, when he stopped good-naturedly to shake hands with her before going in, how long he had worked there?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In return, my uncle nearly crushed his hands, so warmly did he shake them.
-- One idea, above all others, began to trouble me: a very terrible idea, and one calculated to shake the nerves of a man even less sensitive than myself.
-- My sole reply was to shake my head with an air of deep incredulity.
-- Hideous hisses appeared to shake the gloomy granite roof of that mighty cavern--hisses which carried terror to our hearts.
-- It is perpetually undergoing the modifications caused by the decomposition of internal matter, the agitation consequent on the flowing of extensive liquid currents, the excessive action of magnetism which tends to shake it incessantly, at a time when even the multitudinous beings on its surface do not suspect the seething process to be going on.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To shake off the old and sordid connexions and subjections.
-- And she held out her hand, as if to shake hands.
-- said Clifford, seeing her shake her hat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- John Baptist answered with that peculiar back-handed shake of the right forefinger which is the most expressive negative in the Italian language.
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