safety是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 安全, 保险; 安全设备, 保险装置,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For he was furnished with that completeness that if the 13coach-lamps had been blown and stormed out, which did occasionally happen, he had only to shut himself up inside, keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw, and get a light with tolerable safety and ease (if he were lucky) in five minutes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There, suspended by one hand between the baggage-car and the tender, with the other he loosened the safety chains; but, owing to the traction, he would never have succeeded in unscrewing the yoking-bar, had not a violent concussion jolted this bar out.
-- "Madam, you could not remain in India, and your safety could only be assured by bringing you to such a distance that your persecutors could not take you."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Seven thousand, six hundred Detroit automobile mechanics had listened to his observations on "Health First, Safety Second, and Booze Nowhere A-tall."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She did not take her eyes off Raskolnikov, feeling that all her safety lay in him.
-- Why, even if I were guilty, which I don't admit, what reason should I have to confess, when you tell me yourself that I shall be in greater safety in prison?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I learned, that,when he was past creeping out of bed to open it, and past assuringhimself of its safety by means of the divining-rod I had seen himuse, he had required to have it placed on the chair at the bed-side,where he had ever since embraced it, night and day.
-- I was sweptaway, but not unkindly, to some distance, where the peoplearound me made me stay; urging, as I confusedly perceived, thathe was bent on going, with help or without, and that I shouldendanger the precautions for his safety by troubling those withwhom they rested.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Elton was to take the drawing to London, chuse the frame, and give the directions; and Emma thought she could so pack it as to ensure its safety without much incom-moding him, while he seemed mostly fearful of not being incommoded enough.
-- She determined to call upon them and seek safety in numbers.
-- There is safety in reserve, but no attraction.
-- This was the amount of the whole story, of his commu-nication and of Harriet's as soon as she had recovered her senses and speech. He dared not stay longer than to see her well; these several delays left him not another minute to lose; and Emma engaging to give assurance of her safety to Mrs. Goddard, and notice of there being such a set of people in the neighbourhood to Mr. Knightley, he set off, with all the grateful blessings that she could utter for her friend and herself.
-- The young ladies of High-bury might have walked again in safety before their panic began, and the whole history dwindled soon into a matter 408 Emmaof little importance but to Emma and her nephews: in her imagination it maintained its ground, and Henry and John were still asking every day for the story of Harriet and the gipsies, and still tenaciously setting her right if she varied in the slightest particular from the original recital.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I shall do nothing rashly: you know me sufficiently to confide in my prudence andconsiderateness whenever the safety of others is commit-ted to my care.
-- I am going to unexplored regions, to 'the land of mist and snow,' but I shall kill no albatross; therefore do not be alarmed for my safety or if I should come back to you as worn and woeful as the 'Ancient Mariner.'
-- I replied that I could not answer with any degree of certainty, for the ice had not broken until near midnight, and the traveller might have arrived at a place of safety before that time; but of this I could not judge.
-- 'She arrived in safety at a town about twenty leagues from the cottage of De Lacey, when her attendant fell dangerously ill. Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquaint-ed with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world.
-- The Italian had mentioned the name of the spot for which they were bound, and after her death the woman of the house in which they had lived took care that Safie should arrive in safety at the cottage of her lover.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Dear Wife, if I have concealed aught from you it is because I did not wish to lay a burden on your shoulders, toadd to your worries for my physical safety with those of my mental turmoil.
-- If she had only gone home at the beginning of the siege, when everyone else was refugeeing!She could havetaken Melanie with her in safety with weeks to spare.
-- Thank God for Rhett!With safety in view she turned practical.
-- She knew her safety and that of the others in the back of the wagon depended on him and him alone, but shehated him for his sneering at those ragged ranks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter XLIt was fortunate for me that I had to take precautions to ensure (so far as I could) the safety of my dreaded visitor; for, this thought pressing on me when I awoke, held other thoughts in a confused concourse at a distance.
-- Without going near it yourself, you could always hear of the safety of Tom, Jack, or Richard, through Mr. Herbert.
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