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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You may place a soldier before a cannon's mouth in battle, and fire upon him and he will still hope.
-- And again he stood like a log in the middle of the pave-ment; so amazed that his mouth remained open after the last word had left it.
-- The prince grew pale as death; he gazed into Gania's eyes with a strange, wild, reproachful look; his lips trembled and vainly endeav-oured to form some words; then his mouth twisted into an incongruous smile.
-- 'Judging from the fact that the prince blushed at this in-nocent joke, like a young girl, I should think that he must, as an honourable man, harbour the noblest intentions,' said the old toothless schoolmaster, most unexpectedly; he had not so much as opened his mouth before.
-- His audience consisted of a youth of about fifteen years of age with a clever face, who had a book in his hand, though he was not reading; a young lady of twenty, in deep mourn-ing, stood near him with an infant in her arms; another girl of thirteen, also in black, was laughing loudly, her mouth wide open; and on the sofa lay a handsome young man, with black hair and eyes, and a suspicion of beard and whiskers.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The people were sorry for him, yet they laughed heartily, and one would turn to his neighbour say-ing, 'Ulysses has done many a good thing ere now in fight and council, but he never did the Argives a better turn than when he stopped this fellow's mouth from prating further.
-- If however you are kept back through knowledge of some oracle, or if your mother Thetis has told you something from the mouth of Jove, at least send me and the Myrmidons with me, if I may bring deliverance to the Danaans.
-- I know no prophesyings which I am heeding, nor has my mother told me anything from the mouth of Jove, but I am cut to the very heart that one of my own rank should dare to rob me because he is more powerful than I am.
-- His teeth were all of them knocked out and the blood came gushing in a stream from both his eyes; it also came gurgling up from his mouth and nostrils, and the darkness of death en-folded him round about.
-- As a great wave that comes thundering in at the mouth of some heaven-born river, and the rocks that jut into the sea ring with the roar of the breakers that beat and buffet them even with such a roar did the Trojans come on; but the Achaeans in singleness of heart stood firm about the son of Menoetius, and fenced him with their bronze shields.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He held a white cloth it was a serviette he had brought with him over the lower part of his face, so that his mouth and jaws were completely hidden, and that was the reason of his muffled voice.
-- "And holding that handkerchief over his mouth all the time.
-- Perhaps his mouth was hurt too maybe."
-- When Mrs. Hall went to clear away the stranger's lunch, her idea that his mouth must also have been cut or disfigured in the accident she supposed him to have suffered, was confirmed, for he was smoking a pipe, and all the time that she was in the room he never loosened the silk muffler he had wrapped round the lower part of his face to put the mouthpiece to his lips.
-- But for a second it seemed to her that the man she looked at had an enormous mouth wide open a vast and incredible mouth that swallowed the whole of the lower portion of his face.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The facial part projected, forming something dim-ly suggestive of a muzzle, and the huge half-open mouth showed as big white teeth as I had ever seen in a human mouth.
-- He was a pow-erfully-built man, as I have said, with a fine forehead and rather heavy features; but his eyes had that odd drooping of the skin above the lids which often comes with advancing years, and the fall of his heavy mouth at the corners gave him an expression of pugnacious resolution.
-- He twisted his heavy mouth into a faint smile he was one of those saturnine people who smile with the corners of the mouth down, and bowed his acknowledgment of my complaisance.
-- Forthwith he scrambled to his feet, and stood wiping his clumsy hand across his mouth and regarding me.
-- At that I opened my mouth to speak, and found a hoarse phlegm choked my voice.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
-- It was the noise that bewilders woodcutters and gypsies sleeping in the open, and makes them run sometimes into the very mouth of the tiger.
-- A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can, if neces-sary, mouth an egg without breaking it, and though Father Wolf's jaws closed right on the child's back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs.
-- The moonlight was blocked out of the mouth of the cave, for Shere Khan's great square head and shoulders were thrust into the entrance.
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