hot是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. (炎) 热的; 辣的; 急躁的; 激动的; 热衷的,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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Abovethem, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin that skin soprized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.
-- "Oh, it'll be clear tomorrow and hot as June," said Stuart.
-- True, he never made love to her, nor did the clear gray eyes ever glow with that hot light Scarlett knew so well inother men.
-- It was in a saloon in Savannah, on a hot night in spring, when the chance conversation of a stranger sitting near bymade Gerald prick up his ears.
-- "Try a hot cake," said Mammy inexorably.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, Uncle Pumblechook, who was omnipotent in that kitchen, wouldn't hear the word, wouldn't hear of the subject, imperiously waved it all away with his hand, and asked for hot gin and water.
-- My sister, who had begun to be alarmingly meditative, had to employ herself actively in getting the gin, the hot water, the sugar, and the lemon-peel, and mixing them.
-- And after each figure was disposed of, it was as much as I could do to get a bite or a sup, before the next came; while he sat at his ease guessing nothing, and eating bacon and hot roll, in (if I may be allowed the expression) a gorging and gormandizing manner.
-- He said nothing at the moment, for he and Joe had just got a piece of hot iron between them, and I was at the bellows; but by and by he said, leaning on his hammer,--"Now, master!Sure you're not a going to favor only one of us.
-- The master refusing to entertain the subject until the journeyman was in a better temper, Orlick plunged at the furnace, drew out a red-hot bar, made at me with it as if he were going to run it through my body, whisked it round my head, laid it on the anvil, hammered it out,--as if it were I, I thought, and the sparks were my spirting blood,--and finally said, when he had hammered himself hot and the iron cold, and he again leaned on his hammer,--"Now, master!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the heat grew greater as soon as noon came on, till at last, as he found himself on a 12 Grimms' Fairy Taleswide heath that would take him more than an hour to cross, he began to be so hot and parched that his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth.
-- Dum-mling asked him what he was taking to heart so sorely, and he answered: 'I have such a great thirst and cannot quench it; cold water I cannot stand, a barrel of wine I have just emptied, but that to me is like a drop on a hot stone!'
-- Thus she went on and on, and journeyed till she came to the world's end; then she came to the sun, but the sun looked much too hot and fiery; so she ran away quickly to the moon, but the moon was cold and chilly, and said, 'I smell flesh and blood this way!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On the roof of my closet, not directly over the middle of the hammock, I ordered the joiner to cut out a hole of a foot square, to give me air in hot weather, as I slept; which hole I shut at plea-sure with a board that drew backward and forward through a groove.
-- For if, in its perihelion, it should approach within a certain degree of the sun (as by their calculations they have reason to dread) it will receive a degree of heat ten thousand times more intense than that of red hot glowing iron, and in its absence from the sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen miles long, through which, if the earth should pass at the distance of one hundred thousand miles from the nucleus, or main body of the comet, it must in its passage be set on fire, and reduced to ashes: that the sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with the destruction of this earth, and of all the planets that receive their light from it.
-- I therefore told my master, 'that in the country whence I came, those of my kind always covered their bodies with the hairs of certain animals prepared by art, as well for decency as to avoid the inclemencies of air, both hot and cold; of which, as to my own person, I would give him immediate conviction, if he pleased to command me: only desiring his excuse, if I did not expose those parts that nature taught us to conceal.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Stephen came out of the hot mill into the damp wind and cold wet streets, haggard and worn.
-- THE OLD WOMANOld Stephen descended the two white steps, shutting the black door with the brazen door-plate, by the aid of the brazen full-stop, to which he gave a parting polish with the sleeve of his coat, observing that his hot hand clouded it.
-- The streets were hot and dusty on the summer day, and the sun was so bright that it even shone through the heavy vapour drooping over Coketown, and could not be looked at steadily.
-- There was a stifling smell of hot oil everywhere.
-- Their wearisome heads went up and down at the same rate, in hot weather and cold, wet weather and dry, fair weather and foul.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Too hot by half, if the degree of heat was to ascend so high--in which case we should certainly be cooked--not enough, if we wanted to ascertain the exact temperature of springs or metal in a state of fusion.
-- Here and there could be made out the steam from hot water springs.
-- These white vapors, called in the Icelandic language "reykir," come from hot water fountains, and indicate by their violence the volcanic activity of the soil.
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