sentiment是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 情操, 思想感情; 情绪,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:
-- As to the sentiment which this journey might have awakened in him, there was clearly no trace of such a thing; while poor Passepartout existed in perpetual reveries.
-- She did not comprehend, perhaps, the depth of the sentiment with which her protector inspired her, which she called gratitude, but which, though she was unconscious of it, was really more than that.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- exclaimed Miss Betsey, unconsciously quoting thesecond sentiment of the pin-cushion in the drawer upstairs, butapplying it to my mother instead of me, 'I don't mean that.
-- When she was gone, Mr.Peggotty, who had not exhibited a trace of any feeling but theprofoundest sympathy, looked round upon us, and nodding hishead with a lively expression of that sentiment still animating hisface, said in a whisper'She's been thinking of the old 'un!'
-- 'I am not so unreasonable as to expect,' said Agnes, resuming herusual tone, after a little while, 'that you will, or that you can, atonce, change any sentiment that has become a conviction to you;least of all a sentiment that is rooted in your trusting disposition.
-- Peggotty had considered herself highly privileged in beingallowed to participate in these labours; and, although she stillretained something of her old sentiment of awe in reference to myaunt, had received so many marks of encouragement andconfidence, that they were the best friends possible.
-- I thought this sentiment so incompatible with theestablishment of any system of check on Mary Anne, that Ifrowned a little.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was quite a dif-ferent sort of thing, a sentiment distinct and independent.
-- Soon afterwards Mr. Elton quitted them, and she could not but do him the justice of feeling that there was a great deal of sentiment in his manner of naming Harriet at part-ing; in the tone of his voice while assuring her that he should call at Mrs. Goddard's for news of her fair friend, the last thing before he prepared for the happiness of meeting her again, when he hoped to be able to give a better report; and he sighed and smiled himself off in a way that left the bal-ance of approbation much in his favour.
-- His face lengthened immediately; and his voice was the voice of sentiment as he answered.
-- While he spoke, Emma's mind was most busy, and, with all the wonderful velocity of thought, had been able and yet without losing a word to catch and comprehend the exact truth of the whole; to see that Harriet's hopes had been entirely groundless, a mistake, a delusion, as complete a delusion as any of her own that Harriet was nothing; that she was every thing herself; that what she had been say-ing relative to Harriet had been all taken as the language of her own feelings; and that her agitation, her doubts, her reluctance, her discouragement, had been all received as discouragement from herself. And not only was there time for these convictions, with all their glow of attendant happiness; there was time also to rejoice that Harriet's se-cret had not escaped her, and to resolve that it need not, and should not. It was all the service she could now render her poor friend; for as to any of that heroism of sentiment which might have prompted her to entreat him to transfer his affection from herself to Harriet, as infinitely the most worthy of the two or even the more simple sublimity of resolving to refuse him at once and for ever, without vouch-safing any motive, because he could not marry them both, Emma had it not.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her wayward sentiment that evening concerning Fanny's temporary resting-place had been the result of a strange complication of impulses in Bathsheba's bosom.
-- Deriving his idiosyncrasies from both sides of the Channel, he showed at such junctures as the present the inelasticity of the Englishman, together with that blindness to the line where sentiment verges on mawkishness, characteristic of the French.
-- It was with gloom he considered on landing at Liverpool that if he were to go home his reception would be of a kind very unpleasant to contemplate; for what Troy had in the way of emotion was an occasional fitful sentiment which sometimes caused him as much inconvenience as emotion of a strong and healthy kind.
-- O no for wasn't she saying all the time that such thoughts of the future were improper, and wasn't Gabriel far too poor a man to speak sentiment to her?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her garb was rustic, and her cheek pale; but there was an air of dig-nity and beauty, that hardly permitted the sentiment of pity.
-- From 166 Frankensteinyou only could I hope for succour, although towards you I felt no sentiment but that of hatred.
-- I cannot guess how many days have passed since then, but I have endured misery which nothing but the eternal sentiment of a just retribution burning within my heart could have enabled me to support.
-- This sentiment of the worth of my nature supported me when others would have been oppressed, for I deemed it criminal to throw away in useless grief those talents that might be useful to my fellow creatures.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, I too had so often thought it a pity, that, in the singular kind of quarrel with myself which I was always carrying on, I was half inclined to shed tears of vexation and distress when Biddy gave utterance to her sentiment and my own.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Why, Mr. Bounderby was as near being Mr. Gradgrind's bosom friend, as a man perfectly devoid of sentiment can approach that spiritual relationship towards another man perfectly devoid of sentiment.
-- We are not going to wear the bottoms of our boilers out any faster than we wear 'em out now, for all the humbugging sentiment in Great Britain and Ireland.'
-- The result of the varieties of boredom I have undergone, is a conviction (unless conviction is too industrious a word for the lazy sentiment I entertain on the subject), that any set of ideas will do just as much good as any other set, and just as much harm as any other set.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Another great advantage with him was that he had the innate sentiment of equilibrium--for he never slipped or failed in his steps.
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