veil是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 面纱, 遮蔽物v. 用面纱掩盖, 掩饰,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He thought of it, felt how easy it would be to do, and longed to do it; but had no more power to withdraw the veil than to dismiss the spectre at his side.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By good fortune she had a veil on her bonnet, or she could hardly have gone along the streets without being stopped.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All the members of that family, especially the feminine half, were pictured by him, as it were, wrapped about with a mysterious poetical veil, and he not only perceived no defects whatever in them, but under the poetical veil that shrouded them he assumed the existence of the loftiest sentiments and every possible perfection.
-- Kitty meanwhile had long ago been quite ready, and in her white dress and long veil and wreath of orange blossoms she was standing in the drawing-room of the Shtcherbatskys' house with her sister, Madame Lvova, who was her bridal-mother.
-- He looked at her hair done up high, with the long white veil and white flowers and the high, stand-up, scalloped collar, that in such a maidenly fashion hid her long neck at the sides and only showed it in front, her strikingly slender figure, and it seemed to him that she looked better than ever--not because these flowers, this veil, this gown from Paris added anything to her beauty; but because, in spite of the elaborate sumptuousness of her attire, the expression of her sweet face, of her eyes, of her lips was still her own characteristic expression of guileless truthfulness.
-- Some lady," said Kapitonitch, who, not yet dressed, in his overcoat and galoshes, had peeped out of the window and seen a lady in a veil standing close up to the door.
-- The conductor and her two fellow-passengers did not notice under her veil her panic-stricken face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 701'The veil that has long been interposed between Mrs. Micawberand myself, is now withdrawn,' said Mr. Micawber; 'and mychildren and the Author of their Being can once more come incontact on equal terms.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She lifted the wool veil tied round her face, and looked all astonishment.
-- "But you must have on the veil and gloves, or you'll be stung fearfully!"
-- I must put on the veil and gloves.
-- "And you must have the broad-brimmed hat, too, for your cap has no brim to keep the veil off, and they'd reach your face."
-- Then the veil had to be tied at its lower edge round his collar and the gloves put on him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Still I would penetrate their misty veil and seek them in their cloudy retreats.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Carreen,sitting on a hassock under the big lamp, was deep in the romance of a girl who had taken the veil after her lover'sdeath and, with silent tears of enjoyment oozing from her eyes, was pleasurably picturing herself in a white coif.
-- He liked bright colors and Scarlett's funeral dresses and the cr脙陋pe veil that hungfrom her bonnet to her heels both amused him and offended him.
-- Rhett said frankly that the cr脙陋pe veil made her look like a crow and the black dresses added ten years to her age.
-- "And better tastethan to wear that veil to advertise a grief I'm sure you never felt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white.
-- She had not quite finished dressing, for she had but one shoe on,--the other was on the table near her hand,--her veil was but half arranged, her watch and chain were not put on, and some lace for her bosom lay with those trinkets, and with her handkerchief, and gloves, and some flowers, and a Prayer-Book all confusedly heaped about the looking-glass.
-- Without this arrest of everything, this standing still of all the pale decayed objects, not even the withered bridal dress on the collapsed form could have looked so like grave-clothes, or the long veil so like a shroud.
-- Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an Eternity of cloud and wind.
-- As I looked along the clustered roofs, with church-towers and spires shooting into the unusually clear air, the sun rose up, and a veil seemed to be drawn from the river, and millions of sparkles burst out upon its waters.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the waste-yard outside, the steam from the escape pipe, the litter of barrels and old iron, the shining heaps of coals, the ashes everywhere, were shrouded in a veil of mist and rain.
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