man是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 人; 人类(单数, 不加冠词) ; 男人,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:
-- Sometimes a man survives a considerable time from an era in which he had his place into one which is strange to him, and then the curious are offered one of the most singular spectacles in the human comedy.
-- When at last we were all assembled, waiting for dinner to be announced, I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to "take in," that civilised man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.
-- He was a man of forty, not good-looking, and yet not ugly, for his features were rather good; but they were all a little larger than life-size, and the effect was ungainly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At that moment a loud voice, the voice of a man whose heart was inaccessible to fear, was heard.
-- He had one-of those finely- developed heads which appear made to be struck on a medal, piercing eyes, a serious mouth, the physiognomy of a clever man of the military school.
-- A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine temperament.
-- Gideon Spilett ranked among the first of those reporters: a man of great merit, energetic, prompt and ready for anything, full of ideas, having traveled over the whole world, soldier and artist, enthusiastic in council, resolute in action, caring neither for trouble, fatigue, nor danger, when in pursuit of information, for himself first, and then for his journal, a perfect treasury of knowledge on all sorts of curious subjects, of the unpublished, of the unknown, and of the impossible.
-- It was the eye of a man accustomed to take in at a glance all the details of a scene.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it!Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martin's Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain and weariness obliged, despite himself (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the child's step from the man's, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread of an expectant pleasure-seeker think of the hum and noise always being present to his sense, and of the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy churchyard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come.
-- It was an old man with long grey hair, whose face and figure as he held the light above his head and looked before him as he approached, I could plainly see.
-- The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands.
-- The old man kissed her, then turning to me and begging me to walk in, I did so.
-- The child took a candle and tripped into this little room, leaving the old man and me together.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the evening a tall man with long hair just turning gray, and gray beard, came into the room.
-- The old man immediately seated himself beside Maslova and began to jest.
-- Then the hostess called in Maslova and told her that the man was an author, very rich, and will be very generous if he takes a liking to her.
-- Nekhludoff recalled all the tortures this man had occasioned him; how on one occasion he thought that the husband had discovered all, and he was preparing to fight a duel with him, intending to use a blank cartridge, and the ensuing scene where she, in despair, ran to the pond, intending to drown herself, while he ran to search for her.
-- The man was speaking of a case that was being tried in the civil division, showing his familiarity with the judges and the famous lawyers by referring to them by name.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another at fifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on.
-- "But before the balloons, save for spasmodic jumping and the inequalities of the surface, man had no freedom of vertical movement."
-- But a civilised man is better off than the savage in this respect.
-- "One might get one's Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato," the Very Young Man thought.
-- The Medical Man and the Provincial Mayor watched him in profile from the right, the Psychologist from the left.
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:
-- And once more the chorus of voices went on with 'The man that drives the engine.
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