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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
-- All this while the storm increased, and the sea went very high, though nothing like what I have seen many times since; no, nor what I saw a few days after; but it was enough to affect me then, who was but a young sailor, and had nev-er known anything of the matter.
-- Now I saw plainly the goodness of his observations about the middle station of life, how easy, how comfortably he had lived all his days, and never had been exposed to tempests at sea or troubles on shore; and I resolved that I would, like a true repenting prodigal, go home to my father.
-- During these first hur-ries I was stupid, lying still in my cabin, which was in the steerage, and cannot describe my temper: I could ill resume the first penitence which I had so apparently trampled upon and hardened myself against: I thought the bitterness of death had been past, and that this would be nothing like the first; but when the master himself came by me, as I said just now, and said we should be all lost, I was dreadfully frighted.
-- Perhaps this has all befallen us on your account, like Jonah in the ship of Tarshish.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will, gave as much disappointment as pleasure.
-- "I think you will like him," said Elinor, "when you know more of him."
-- "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him that I greatly esteem, that I like him."
-- In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like his father or mother, and in what particular he resembled either, for of course every body differed, and every body was astonished at the opinion of the others.
-- I once knew a lady who in temper and mind greatly resembled your sister, who thought and judged like her, but who from an inforced change from a series of unfortunate circumstances" Here he stopt suddenly; appeared to think that he had said too much, and by his countenance gave rise to conjectures, which might not otherwise have entered Elinor's head.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear!Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.
-- So much to see--theatres, crowds, fine houses--oh, you'll like that."
-- There she found other girls ahead of her, applicants like herself, but with more of that self-satisfied and independent air which experience of the city lends; girls who scrutinised her in a painful manner.
-- We like experienced help, though.
-- "You'd like to see Michigan Avenue.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Miss Watson would say, 'Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;' and 'Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry set up straight;' and pretty soon she would say, 'Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry why don't you try to be- have?'
-- Seemed like I'd die if I couldn't scratch.
-- No; nobody ever saw anything in the books like that.
-- They judged it was him, anyway; said this drownded man was just his size, and was ragged, and had uncommon long hair, which was all like pap; but they couldn't make nothing out of the face, be- cause it had been in the water so long it warn't much like a face at all.
-- 'Why,' said he, 'a magician could call up a lot of genies, and they would hash you up like nothing before you could say Jack Robinson.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Adventures of Pinocchio by C. Collodi [Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini] Translated from the Italian by Carol Della Chiesa CHAPTER 1 How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
-- His real name was Mastro Antonio, but everyone called him Mastro Cherry, for the tip of his nose was so round and red and shiny that it looked like a ripe cherry.
-- Might it be that this piece of wood has learned to weep and cry like a child?
-- Over the fire, there was painted a pot full of something which kept boiling happily away and sending up clouds of what looked like real steam.
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