this是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为pron. 这(个) a. 这(个) ; 今ad. 这(样),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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hall," said he, "but this is terrible weather for thin boots!"
-- It was the sensation of a moment: the white-bound head, the monstrous goggle eyes, and this huge yawn below it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So that this narra-tive is without confirmation in its most essential particular.
-- With that understood, there seems no harm in putting this strange story before the public in accordance, as I believe, with my uncle's intentions.
-- There is at least this much in its behalf: my uncle passed out of human knowledge about lat-itude 5' S. and longitude 105' E., and reappeared in the same part of the ocean after a space of eleven months.
-- It has hitherto been supposed that the four men who were in the dingey perished, but this is incorrect.
-- I have the best of evidence for this assertion: I was one of the four men.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw.
-- And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.'
-- 'All thanks for this good meal,' he said, licking his lips.
-- The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.
-- And so this is a man's cub.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- INTRODUCTION It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the Iinformation necessary to understand its allusions, are rendered sufficiently obvious to the reader in the text itself, or in the accompanying notes.
-- There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opin-ion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it.
-- Thus, the term used in the title of this book has undergone the changes of Mahicanni, Mohicans, and Mohegans; the latter being the word commonly used by the whites.
-- When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New York), the English, and the French, all gave ap-pellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country which is the scene of this story, and that the Indians not only gave different names to their enemies, but frequently to them-selves, the cause of the confusion will be understood.
-- The Mohicans were the possessors of the country first occupied by the Europeans in this portion of the continent.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveter-ate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.
-- Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.
-- If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
-- From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country.
-- The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchant-ed region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horse-back, without a head.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.
-- The rise of this reputation is one of the most romantic incidents in the history of art.
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