like是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 喜欢prep. 象; 比如a. 相象的n. 象…一样,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《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I'd like to see you do it in eighty days."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Martin was, like most inhabitants of Elk Mills before the Slavo- Italian immigration, a Typical Pure-bred Anglo-Saxon American, which means that he was a union of German, French, Scotch, Irish, perhaps a little Spanish, conceivably a little of the strains lumped together as "Jewish," and a great deal of English, which is itself a combination of primitive Briton, Celt, Phoenician, Roman, German, Dane, and Swede.
-- The Doc's step was much livelier when he loomed into the office, a gray mass of a man with a gray mass of mustache, a form vast and unreal and undefined, like a cloud taking for the moment a likeness of humanity.
-- "Why they don't repair that culvert--And don't be a booze-hoister like me, either.
-- I haven't put away money like Doc Needham, but I started first c'lection--I started it!"
-- Chapter 2 The state of Winnemac is bounded by Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, and like them it is half Eastern, half Midwestern.
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:
-- His garret was under the roof of a high, five-sto-ried house and was more like a cupboard than a room.
-- But to be stopped on the stairs, to be forced to listen to her trivial, ir-relevant gossip, to pestering demands for payment, threats and complaints, and to rack his brains for excuses, to pre-varicate, to lie no, rather than that, he would creep down the stairs like a cat and slip out unseen.
-- 'I want to attempt a thing like that and am frightened by these trifles,' he thought, with an odd smile.
-- 'I knew it,' he muttered in confusion, 'I thought so!That's the worst of all!Why, a stupid thing like this, the most trivial detail might spoil the whole plan.
-- The little flats in such houses always have bells that ring like that.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 151I Begin life on My Own Account, and Don't Like ItCHAPTER XII .
-- But, like many fond parents, I have in myheart of hearts a favourite child.
-- My father had often hinted that she seldom conductedherself like any ordinary Christian; and now, instead of ringing thebell, she came and looked in at that identical window, pressing theend of her nose against the glass to that extent that my poor dearmother used to say it became perfectly flat and white in a moment.
-- Miss Betsey, looking round the room, slowly and inquiringly,began on the other side, and carried her eyes on, like a Saracen'shead in a Dutch clock, until they reached my mother.
-- Then shemade a frown and a gesture to my mother, like one who wasaccustomed to be obeyed, to come and open the door.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'The carriage!But James will not like to put the horses to for such a little way; and where are the poor horses to be while we are paying our visit?'
-- And as for James, you may be very sure he will always like going to Randalls, because of his daughter's being housemaid there.
-- We al-ways say what we like to one another.'
-- 'We should not like her so well as we do, sir, if we could suppose it; but she knows how much the marriage is to Miss Taylor's advantage; she knows how very acceptable it must be, at Miss Taylor's time of life, to be settled in a home of her own, and how important to her to be secure of a comfortable provision, and therefore cannot allow herself to feel so much pain as pleasure.
-- Weston, who had been a widower so long, and who seemed so perfectly comfortable without a wife, so constantly occu-pied either in his business in town or among his friends here, always acceptable wherever he went, always cheerful Mr. Weston need not spend a single evening in the year alone if he did not like it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Description of Farmer Oak An IncidentWhen Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.
-- He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and a coat like Dr. Johnson's; his lower extremities being encased in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp their maker being a conscientious man who endeavoured to compensate for any weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidity.
-- It may be mentioned that Oak's fob being difficult of access, by reason of its somewhat high situation in the waistband of his trousers (which also lay at a remote height under his waistcoat), the watch was as a necessity pulled out by throwing the body to one side, compressing the mouth and face to a mere mass of ruddy flesh on account of the exertion required, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well.
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