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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The hill was covered on its northern side by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches, whose upper verge formed a line over the crest, fringing its arched curve against the sky, like a mane.
-- The thin grasses, more or less coating the hill, were touched by the wind in breezes of differing powers, and almost of differing natures one rubbing the blades heavily, another raking them piercingly, another brushing them like a soft broom.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now and again there are tragedies so awful and so grand by reason of the complication of virtues and vices that bring them about, that egotism and selfishness are forced to pause and are moved to pity; but the impression that they receive is like a luscious fruit, soon consumed.
-- Civilization, like the car of Juggernaut, is scarcely stayed perceptibly in its progress by a heart less easy to break than the others that lie in its course; this also is broken, and Civilization continues on her course triumphant.
-- But, before all things, the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve is like a bronze frame for a picture for which the mind cannot be too well prepared by the contemplation of sad hues and sober images.
-- On the opposite wall, at the further end of the graveled walk, a green marble arch was painted once upon a time by a local artist, and in this semblance of a shrine a statue representing Cupid is installed; a Parisian Cupid, so blistered and disfigured that he looks like a candidate for one of the adjacent hospitals, and might suggest an allegory to lovers of symbolism.
-- She is an oldish woman, with a bloated countenance, and a nose like a parrot's beak set in the middle of it; her fat little hands (she is as sleek as a church rat) and her shapeless, slouching figure are in keeping with the room that reeks of misfortune, where hope is reduced to speculate for the meanest stakes.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans.
-- It was, in fact, a sledge, like that we had seen before, which had drifted towards us in the night on a large fragment of ice.
-- Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery and be overwhelmed by disappointments, yet when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.
-- He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care; and after the inter-ment of his friend he conducted her to Geneva and placed her under the protection of a relation.
-- The saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp in our peace-ful home.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The darkies were hanging from the rafters, popeyed, they were soscared, but Ma was talking to the horse like he was folks and he was eating out of her hand.
-- Scarlett, like the rest of the County, could never get used to the way smallMrs. Tarleton bullied her grown sons and laid her riding crop on their backs if the occasion seemed to warrant it.
-- God'lmighty, Ma ought to stop licking us!We're nineteen and Tom's twenty-one, and she acts like we're six yearsold."
-- They said they were going tohave her go to one party at least like a lady, riding in the carriage."
-- We'll sit on the stair landing like we did at the last ball and get Mammy Jincy to come tell our fortunes again."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.
-- When he came to the low church wall, he got over it, like a man whose legs were numbed and stiff, and then turned round to look for me.
-- "And why did I do it, I should like to know?"
-- He turned it about in his mouth much longer than usual, pondering over it a good deal, and after all gulped it down like a pill.
-- At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- HANS IN LUCK ome men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do Scomes right all that falls to them is so much gain all their geese are swans all their cards are trumps toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster.
-- After a time he thought he should like to go a little faster, so he smacked his lips and cried 'Jip!'
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