day是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 天, 一昼夜; 白昼, 白天; 时期, 时代,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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was at her house one day that I met Charles Strickland's wife.
-- When we left I walked away with Miss Waterford, and the fine day and her new hat persuaded us to saunter through the Park.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such was the density of the atmosphere that they could not be certain whether it was day or night.
-- Again the day appeared and with it the tempest began to moderate.
-- At the same time and on the same day another important personage fell into the hands of the Southerners.
-- On that day the engineer, Cyrus Harding, was accosted in one of the streets of Richmond by a person whom he did not in the least know.
-- On this day he did not, therefore, hesitate to accost him, saying, without circumlocution, "Have you had enough of Richmond, captain?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Take care that the day don't come when you walk barefoot in the streets, and she rides by in a gay carriage of her own.'
-- Over nobody had he such complete ascendance as Mrs Quilp herself a pretty little, mild-spoken, blue-eyed woman, who having allied herself in wedlock to the dwarf in one of those strange infatuations of which examples are by no means scarce, performed a sound practical penance for her folly, every day of her life.
-- Another lady recounted her own personal struggle and final triumph, in the course whereof she had found it necessary to call in her mother and two aunts, and to weep incessantly night and day for six weeks.
-- She's the ornament of her sex your father said so every day of his life.
-- At length the day broke, and poor Mrs Quilp, shivering with cold of early morning and harassed by fatigue and want of sleep, was discovered sitting patiently on her chair, raising her eyes at intervals in mute appeal to the compassion and clemency of her lord, and gently reminding him by an occasion cough that she was still unpardoned and that her penance had been of long duration.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The joy of spring felt by animals and men did not penetrate the office of the county jail, but the one thing of supreme importance there was a document received the previous evening, with title, number and seal, which ordered the bringing into court for trial, this 28th day of April, at nine o'clock in the morning, three prisoners--two women and one man.
-- So, in pursuance of that order, on the 28th day of April, at eight o'clock in the morning, the jail warden entered the dingy corridor of the woman's ward.
-- From this day on Maslova began to lead a life to which hundreds of thousands of women are driven, and which, in nine cases out of ten, ends in painful disease, premature decrepitude and death.
-- He was gazing before him, contemplating the events of the previous day and considering what he had before him for that day.
-- In the oblong dining-room, the inlaid floor of which had been polished by three of his men the day before, and containing a massive oaken sideboard and a similar extension table, the legs of which were carved in the shape of lion's paws, giving it a pompous appearance, breakfast stood ready for him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Editor wanted that explained to him, and the Psychologist volunteered a wooden account of the "ingenious paradox and trick" we had witnessed that day week.
-- "Our Special Correspondent in the Day after Tomorrow reports," the Journalist was saying or rather shouting when the Time Traveller came back.
-- Tomorrow night came black, then day again, night again, day again, faster and faster still.
-- As I put on pace, night followed day like the flapping of a black wing.
-- Presently, as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous greyness; the sky took on a wonderful deepness of blue, a splendid luminous colour like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire, a brilliant arch, in space; the moon a fainter fluctuating band; and I could see nothing of the stars, save now and then a brighter circle flickering in the blue.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I should be sent to prison, I suppose, when the day came.
-- Or let me see suppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner: then, when the miserable day came, I should have to go without fifty dinners at once!Well, I shouldn't mind that much!I'd far rather go without them than eat them!
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