beginning是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 开始, 开端; 起源, 早期阶段,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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Conseil," said I again, beginning with feverish hands to make preparations for my departure.
-- "Sir," I replied, beginning to get angry in spite of my self, "you abuse your situation towards us; it is cruelty."
-- Captain Nemo had already risen, and I was beginning to stretch my limbs, when an unexpected apparition brought me briskly to my feet.
-- "One word only, Master Land," I said to the harpooner, who was beginning to ravage another coco-nut tree.
-- I was beginning to accustom myself to the sight of this interesting fishing, when suddenly, as the Indian was on the ground, I saw him make a gesture of terror, rise, and make a spring to return to the surface of the sea.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ursula often wondered what else she waited for, besides the beginning and end of the school week, and the beginning and end of the holidays.
-- We all drank milk first, we all eat bread and meat, we all want to ride in motor-cars therein lies the beginning and the end of the brotherhood of man.
-- The spell was beginning to work again.
-- "I think it's all right," he said good-humouredly, beginning to row again without thinking of what he was doing.
-- He was beginning to feel a fool.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I bowed and returned the pledge; beginning to perceive that it would be foolish to sit sulking for the misbehaviour of a pack of curs; besides, I felt loth to yield the fellow further amusement at my expense; since his humour took that turn.
-- One fine summer morning it was the beginning of harvest, I remember Mr. Earnshaw, the old master, came down stairs, dressed for a journey; and, after he had told Joseph what was to be done during the day, he turned to Hindley, and Cathy, and me for I sat eating my porridge with them and he said, speaking to his son, 'Now, my bonny man, I'm going to Liverpool to day, what shall I bring you?
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 茫聙聙茫聙聙茫聙聙PART ONEThe Old Buccaneer1 The Old Sea-dog at the "Admiral Benbow"QUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof.
-- A full moon was beginning to rise and peered redly through the upper edges of the fog, and this increased our haste, for it was plain, before we came forth again, that all would be as bright as day, and our departure exposed to the eyes of any watchers.
-- By this time the tide was beginning to ebb, and the ship was swinging round to her anchor.
-- They exchanged guns, and Trelawney, silent and cool as he had been since the beginning of the bustle, hung a moment on his heel to see that all was fit for service.
-- Poor old fellow, he had not uttered one word of surprise, complaint, fear, or even acquiescence from the very beginning of our troubles till now, when we had laid him down in the log-house to die.
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