mouth是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 口, 嘴,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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We were sitting as before, one evening (when my mother was outas before), in company with the stocking and the yard measure,and the bit of wax, and the box with Saint Paul's on the lid, and thecrocodile book, when Peggotty, after looking at me several times,and opening her mouth as if she were going to speak, withoutdoing it- which I thought was merely gaping, or I should havebeen rather alarmed- said coaxingly'Master Davy, how should youlike to go along with me and spend a fortnight at my brother's atYarmouth?
-- I was obliged to get her torepeat it, for she spoke it the first time quite down my throat, inconsequence of my having forgotten to take my mouth away fromthe keyhole and put my ear there; and though her words tickledme a good deal, I didn't hear them.
-- Then Peggotty fitted her mouth close to the key-hole, anddelivered these words through it with as much feeling andearnestness as a keyhole has ever been the medium ofcommunicating, I will venture to assert: shooting in each brokenlittle sentence in a convulsive little burst of its own.
-- He made up his mouth as if to whistle, but he didn't whistle.
-- Again he made up his mouth to whistle, and again he didn'twhistle, but sat looking at the horse's ears.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Harriet's features are very delicate, which makes a like-ness difficult; and yet there is a peculiarity in the shape of the eye and the lines about the mouth which one ought to catch.'
-- He had the air of congratulating himself on having brought such a woman to Highbury, as not even Miss Woodhouse could equal; and the greater part of her new acquaintance, disposed to commend, or not in the hab-it of judging, following the lead of Miss Bates's good-will, or taking it for granted that the bride must be as clever and as agreeable as she professed herself, were very well satisfied; so that Mrs. Elton's praise passed from one mouth to anoth-er as it ought to do, unimpeded by Miss Woodhouse, who readily continued her first contribution and talked with a good grace of her being 'very pleasant and very elegantly 340 Emmadressed.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Description of Farmer Oak An IncidentWhen Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.
-- 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.
-- "Yes now I see 'ee blowing into the flute I know 'ee to be the same man I see play at Casterbridge, for yer mouth were scrimped up and yer eyes a-staring out like a strangled man's just as they be now."
-- Something in the exact arch of her upper unbroken row of teeth, and in the keenly pointed corners of her red mouth when, with parted lips, she somewhat defiantly turned up her face to argue a point with a tall man, suggested that there was potentiality enough in that lithe slip of humanity for alarming exploits of sex, and daring enough to carry them out.
-- The door was hurriedly burst open again, and in came running Cainy Ball out of breath, his mouth red and open, like the bell of a penny trumpet, from which he coughed with noisy vigour and great distension of face.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- de Beauseant's mouth did not tighten, her color did not rise, her expression did not alter, or rather, her brow seemed to clear as the Duchess uttered those deadly words.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Why, the Confederacy " Scarlett made a mouth of bored impatience.
-- Her face felt stiff as from pain and her mouth actually hurt fromhaving stretched it, unwillingly, in smiles to prevent the twins from learning her secret.
-- Sometimes when Scarlett tiptoed at night to kiss her tall mother's cheek, she looked up at the mouth with its tooshort, too tender upper lip, a mouth too easily hurt by the world, and wondered if it had ever curved in silly girlishgiggling or whispered secrets through long nights to intimate girl friends.
-- Ellen's tired mouth smiled into the tumult as she addressed herself first to her husband, as a wife should.
-- There was a cool recklessness in his face and a cynical humor in his mouth as he smiled at her, and Scarlett caught herbreath.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He turned it about in his mouth much longer than usual, pondering over it a good deal, and after all gulped it down like a pill.
-- While Mrs. Joe sat with her head bending over her needlework, I put my mouth into the forms of saying to Joe, "What's a convict?"
-- Joe put his mouth into the forms of returning such a highly elaborate answer, that I could make out nothing of it but the single word "Pip."
-- At this point Joe greatly augmented my curiosity by taking the utmost pains to open his mouth very wide, and to put it into the form of a word that looked to me like "sulks."
-- Therefore, I naturally pointed to Mrs. Joe, and put my mouth into the form of saying, "her?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There they all landed, and went into the castle, and each prince danced with his princess; and the soldier, who was all the time invisible, danced with them too; and when any of the princesses had a cup of wine set by her, he drank it all up, so that when she put the cup to her mouth 46 Grimms' Fairy Talesit was empty.
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