partly是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 部分地, 不完全地, 在一定程度上,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The six men commenced their explorations, keeping constantly to the line they had made in their descent, examining closely every fissure, and going into the very depths of the abysses, choked up though they partly were with fragments of the plateau; and more than one came out again with garments torn to rags, and feet and hands bleeding.
-- This proposition was partly made by gestures, and partly by a few Spanish words which Paganel managed to make out.
-- Think, my friends, of a continent, the margin of which, instead of the center, rose out of the waves originally like a gigantic ring, which encloses, perhaps, in its center, a sea partly evaporated, the waves of which are drying up daily; where humidity does not exist either in the air or in the soil; where the trees lose their bark every year, instead of their leaves; where the leaves present their sides to the sun and not their face, and consequently give no shade; where the wood is often incombustible, where good-sized stones are dissolved by the rain; where the forests are low and the grasses gigantic; where the animals are strange; where quadrupeds have beaks, like the echidna, or ornithorhynchus, and naturalists have been obliged to create a special order for them, called monotremes; where the kangaroos leap on unequal legs, and sheep have pigs' heads; where foxes fly about from tree to tree; where the swans are black; where rats make nests; where the bower-bird opens her reception-rooms to receive visits from her feathered friends; where the birds astonish the imagination by the variety of their notes and their aptness; where one bird serves for a clock, and another makes a sound like a postilion cracking of a whip, and a third imitates a knife-grinder, and a fourth the motion of a pendulum; where one laughs when the sun rises, and another cries when the sun sets!Oh, strange, illogical country, land of paradoxes and anomalies, if ever there was one on earth—the learned botanist Grimard was right when he said, ‘There is that Australia, a sort of parody, or rather a defiance of universal laws in the face of the rest of the world.'"
-- Superstition is no doubt partly to blame, but cannibalism is certainly owing to the fact that there are moments when game is scarce and hunger great.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In truth, it was partly for your own sake that I did it, and it was my appreciation of the danger which you ran which led me to come down and examine the matter for myself.
-- Partly it came no doubt from his own masterful nature, which loved to dominate and surprise those who were around him.
-- Partly also from his professional caution, which urged him never to take any chances.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- While still young the wife had been able to make important friends among the aristocracy, partly by virtue of her family descent, and part-ly by her own exertions; while, in after life, thanks to their wealth and to the position of her husband in the service, she took her place among the higher circles as by right.
-- Perhaps that is partly why I am so talkative this morning.
-- It was partly the fact of her marvellous beauty that struck him, and partly something else.
-- Gania was partly glad of this; but still he had put it to her debit in the account to be settled after marriage.
-- He therefore remained, partly through curiosity, partly through good-nature, hoping that his presence might be of some use.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Half way up was a square enclosure of some greyish stone, which I found subsequently was built partly of coral and partly of pumiceous lava.
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:
-- For a single in-stant his searching and yet wary glance met the wondering look of the other, and then changing its direction, partly in cunning, and partly in disdain, it remained fixed, as if pen-etrating the distant air.
-- 'I like him not,' said the lady, shuddering, partly in as-sumed, yet more in real terror.
-- Uncas partly raised his body, and offered his hand to the grasp of Heyward.
-- Among the topmost leaves, which scantily concealed the gnarled and stunted limbs, a savage was nes-tled, partly concealed by the trunk of the tree, and partly exposed, as though looking down upon them to ascertain the effect produced by his treacherous aim.
-- Forty days and forty nights did the imps crave our blood around this pile of logs, which I designed and partly reared, being, as you'll remember, no Indian myself, but a man without a cross.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed, and partly patched with leaves of old copybooks.
-- The common people regarded it with a mixture of respect and superstition, partly out of sympathy for the fate of its ill- starred namesake, and partly from the tales of strange sights, and doleful lamentations, told concerning it.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And as Nature, who gives supplies of food to every creature, dictates even naturally how to make use of it, so I, that had never milked a cow, much less a goat, or seen butter or cheese made only when I was a boy, after a great many essays and miscarriages, made both butter and cheese at last, also salt (though I found it partly made to my hand by the heat of the sun upon some of the rocks of the sea), and never wanted it afterwards.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Elinor thought it wisest to make no answer to this, lest they might provoke each other to an unsuitable increase of ease and unreserve; and was even partly determined never to mention the subject again.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then he partly closed the door again.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jim said he reckoned the widow was partly right and pap was partly right; so the best way would be for us to pick out two or three things from the list and say we wouldn't borrow them any more then he reckoned it wouldn't be no harm to borrow the others.
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