let是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 让, 允许, 听任; 设, 假设; 出租, 租给,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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He used, too, to hold the money-plate at Let Your Light so Shine, and stand godfather to poor little come-by-chance children; and he kept a missionary box upon his table to nab folks unawares when they called; yes, and he would box the charity-boys' ears, if they laughed in church, till they could hardly stand upright, and do other deeds of piety natural to the saintly inclined."
-- "Thank you very much," said Oak, in the modest tone good manners demanded, thinking, however, that he would never let Bathsheba see him playing the flute; in this resolve showing a discretion equal to that related to its sagacious inventress, the divine Minerva herself.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Vauquer herself occupying the least important, while the rest were let to a Mme.
-- If a stranger presented himself, she let him know that M. Goriot, one of the best known and most highly-respected merchants in Paris, had singled out her boarding-house for a residence.
-- He is as good as a plaything for the rest of them; they can never let him alone; but he is a good man, all the same, and worth more than all of them put together.
-- Just keep an eye on the milk, Christophe; don't let the cat get at it."
-- It's nearly ten o'clock, and you let me sleep like a dormouse!Such a thing has never happened before."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!'
-- Such were the professor's words rather let me say such the words of the fate enounced to destroy me.
-- She told me, that that same evening William had teased her to let him wear a very valuable miniature that she possessed of 78 Frankensteinyour mother.
-- I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind, and endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of horror, such as the deed which he had now done, nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me.
-- Did any one indeed exist, except I, the creator, who would believe, unless his senses convinced him, in the existence of the living monument of presump-tion and rash ignorance which I had let loose upon the world?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And, anyway, the girls won't let her.
-- "Last Christmas you sure let him buzz round you plenty."
-- We wouldn't have known it if Miss Melly's aunthadn't let it out.
-- Fust place she'll ast me huccome Ah let y'all git expelled agin.
-- "He'd be just fool enough to let the patterollers get him and that would give Ma something else to talk about forweeks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Who d'ye live with,--supposin' you're kindly let to live, which I han't made up my mind about?"
-- "Now lookee here," he said, "the question being whether you're to be let to live.
-- I was dreadfully frightened, and so giddy that I clung to him with both hands, and said, "If you would kindly please to let me keep upright, sir, perhaps I shouldn't be sick, and perhaps I could attend more."
-- You do it, and you never dare to say a word or dare to make a sign concerning your having seen such a person as me, or any person sumever, and you shall be let to live.
-- Even when I was taken to have a new suit of clothes, the tailor had orders to make them like a kind of Reformatory, and on no account to let me have the free use of my limbs.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first would not let him, for fear some harm should come to him: however, at last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch.
-- At twelve o'clock at night the princess goes to the bathing-house: go up to her and give her a kiss, and she will let you lead her away; but take care you do not suffer her to go and take leave of her father and mother.'
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