stick是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 棍, 棒, 手杖v. 刺, 戳, 扎; 粘贴,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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Better stick to your own weapons dimples, vasesand the like."
-- "You can use a stick of firewood, can't you?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It'll stick somewhere.
-- They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me.
-- What he did on those occasions was to turn up his cuffs, stick up his hair, and give us Mark Antony's oration over the body of Caesar.
-- In her other hand she had a crutch-headed stick on which she leaned, and she looked like the Witch of the place.
-- At the mention of each name, she had struck the table with her stick in a new place.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The robbers, therefore, made him get on the horse, and handed 281him the stick and the cloak, and when he had put this round him he was no longer visible.
-- Then he fell upon them with the stick and beat them one after another, crying, 'There, you idle vagabonds, you have got what you deserve; are you satisfied now!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When this shower of arrows was over, I fell a groaning with grief and pain; and then striving 15again to get loose, they discharged another volley larger than the first, and some of them attempted with spears to stick me in the sides; but by good luck I had on a buff jerkin, which they could not pierce.
-- The emperor holds a stick in his hands, both ends parallel to the horizon, while the candidates advancing, one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep un-der it, backward and forward, several times, according as the stick is advanced or depressed.
-- I then fastened my handkerchief to a stick I usually carried, and thrusting it up the hole, waved it several times in the air, that if any boat or ship were near, the seamen might conjec-ture some unhappy mortal to be shut up in the box.
-- Whereupon I 180 Gulliver's Travelsagain thrust up my stick and handkerchief, calling for help till I was almost hoarse.
-- He said, 'they saw my stick and handkerchief thrust out of the hole, and concluded that some unhappy man must be shut up in the cavity.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Stick to Facts, sir!'
-- The father of one of the families was in the habit of balancing the father of another of the families on the top of a great pole; the father of a third family often made a pyramid of both those fathers, with Master Kidderminster for the apex, and himself for the base; all the fathers could dance upon rolling casks, stand upon bottles, catch knives and balls, twirl hand-basins, ride upon anything, jump over everything, and stick at nothing.
-- So the day came, as all other days come to people who will only stick to reason; and when it came, there were married in the church of the florid wooden legs that popular order of architecture Josiah Bounderby Esquire of Coketown, to Louisa eldest daughter of Thomas Gradgrind Esquire of Stone Lodge, M.P.
-- 'Oh!as a sum if you stick to a sum of not more than a hundred and fifty pound,' said Bounderby, with impatience.
-- At last he made the discovery that to discharge this highly connected female to have it in his power to say, 'She was a woman of family, and wanted to stick to me, but I wouldn't have it, and got rid of her' would be to get the utmost possible amount of crowning glory out of the connection, and at the same time to punish Mrs. Sparsit according to her deserts.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We are utterly unprepared for a sea voyage; it is simply madness to think of performing a journey of five hundred leagues upon a wretched pile of beams, with a counterpane for a sail, a paltry stick for a mast, and a tempest to contend with.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You stick to your side, I'll stick to mine!A strange denial of the common pulse of humanity.
-- If we stick to that we ought to be able to arrange this sex thing, as we arrange going to the dentist; since fate has given us a checkmate physically there.'
-- You've got to stick to it all your life.
-- Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life.
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