magic是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 魔术, 魔(魅) 力, 巫术a. 有魔力的, 魔术的,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had long thirsted, for reasons of his own, to penetrate the mysteries of the magic circle, and, therefore, this assemblage was of the greatest possible interest to him.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was sorcery, magic of the worst kind, thought Buldeo, and he wondered whether the amulet round his neck would protect him.
-- When he got to the village he told a tale of magic and enchantment and sorcery that made the priest look very grave.
-- The victory is only a matter of quick-ness of eye and quickness of foot snake's blow against mongoose's jump and as no eye can follow the motion of a snake's head when it strikes, this makes things much more wonderful than any magic herb.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These magic books and the poetic scrawl were forthwith consigned to the flames by Hans Van Ripper; who, from that time forward, determined to send his children no more to school; observing that he never knew any good come of this same reading and writing.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Murea, the sister isle, comes into view in rocky splendour, rising from the desert sea mysteriously, like the unsubstantial fabric of a magic wand.
-- He seemed on a sudden to have entered a magic world.
-- They were sombre blues, opaque like a delicately carved bowl in lapis lazuli, and yet with a quivering lustre that suggested the palpitation of mysterious life; there were purples, horrible like raw and putrid flesh, and yet with a glowing, sensual passion that called up vague memories of the Roman Empire of Heliogabalus; there were reds, shrill like the berries of holly one thought of Christmas in England, and the snow, the good cheer, and the pleasure of children and yet by some magic softened till they had the swooning tenderness of a dove's breast; there were deep yellows that died with an unnatural passion into a green as fragrant as the spring and as pure as the sparkling water of a mountain brook.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Floods of light entered by this hole, inundating the splendid cavern and producing a magic effect!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER 73The magic reel, which, rolling on before, has led the chronicler thus far, now slackens in its pace, and stops.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Indeed the situation was dangerous, but the Nautilus seemed to slide like magic off these rocks.
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:
-- White and black smoke rose up in steady columns, magic within the dark air.
-- The class-room was distinct and hard, a strange place after the soft dim magic that filled it before he came.
-- There seemed a magic circle drawn about the place, shutting out the present, enclosing the delightful, precious past, trees and deer and silence, like a dream.
-- On the roads silted with black dust, the rich light fell more warmly, more heavily, over all the amorphous squalor a kind of magic was cast, from the glowing close of day.
-- He walked after her, and cuffed her once or twice, leisurely, with sudden little blows of his magic white paws.
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's nigger, Jim, had a hair-ball as big as your fist, which had been took out of the fourth stomach of an ox, and he used to do magic with it.
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