foe是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 敌人, 宿敌,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:
-- Shouting on the foe he fell, And like thunder rang his war-cry O'er the cowering infi-del.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They threw at the same moment, and Sarpedon struck his foe in the middle of his throat; the spear went right through, and the darkness of death fell upon his eyes.
-- The godlike hero Ereuthalion stood forward as their champion, with the armour of King Areithous upon his shoulders Areithous whom men and women had surnamed 'the Mace-man,' because he fought neither with bow nor spear, but broke the battalions of the foe with his iron mace.
-- When many are got together, you can be guided by him whose counsel is wisest and sorely do we need shrewd and prudent counsel, for the foe has lit his watchfires hard by our ships.
-- His sisters and his mother herself besought him sore, but he the more refused them; those of his com-rades who were nearest and dearest to him also prayed him, but they could not move him till the foe was battering at the very doors of his chamber, and the Curetes had scaled the walls and were setting fire to the city.
-- Foot soldiers drove the foot soldiers of the foe in rout before them, and slew them; horsemen did the like by horsemen, and the thundering tramp of the horses raised a cloud of dust from off the plain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His high per-sonal popularity, and the clearness of his answers, made a great impression; but, as he proceeded, as he showed that the Accused was his first friend on his release from his long imprisonment; that, the accused had remained in England, always faithful and devoted to his daughter and himself in their exile; that, so far from being in favour with the Aris-406 A tale of two citiestocrat government there, he had actually been tried for his life by it, as the foe of England and friend of the United States as he brought these circumstances into view, with the greatest discretion and with the straightforward force of truth and earnestness, the Jury and the populace became one.
-- Inference clear as day in this region of suspicion, that Mr. Barsad, still in the pay of the aristocratic English govern-ment, is the spy of Pitt, the treacherous foe of the Republic crouching in its bosom, the English traitor and agent of all mischief so much spoken of and so difficult to find.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For some years he continued a deadly foe to Kit, protesting that he had a better opinion of him when he was supposed to have stolen the five-pound note, than when he was shown to be perfectly free of the crime; inasmuch as his guilt would have had in it something daring and bold, whereas his innocence was but another proof of a sneaking and crafty disposition.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He took his vorpal sword in hand:Long time the manxome foe he sought So rested he by the Tumtum tree,And stood awhile in thought.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sudden canting of the ship had made the deck no place for running on; I had to find some new way of escape, and that upon the instant, for my foe was almost touching me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I always thought this was business, this was the way to confront the thing, this was the way to take the foe by the throat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They took De Foe to their bosoms, instead of Euclid, and seemed to be on the whole more comforted by Goldsmith than by Cocker.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Its use was to give the coup de grace, the final blow, to the foe who would not surrender.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A distinguished personage happened to visit the school that morning, and Amy's beautifully drawn maps received praise, which honor to her foe rankled in the soul of Miss Snow, and caused Miss March to assume the airs of a studi-ous young peacock.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Though refusing, from conscientious scruples, to bear arms against land invaders, yet himself had illimitably invaded the Atlantic and Pacific; and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.
-- How it was that they so aboundingly responded to the old man's ire by what evil magic their souls were possessed, that at times his hate seemed almost theirs; the White Whale as much their insufferable foe as his; how all this came to be what the White Whale was to them, or how to their unconscious understandings, also, in some dim, unsuspected way, he might have seemed the gliding great demon of the seas of life, all this to explain, would be to dive deeper than Ishmael can go.
-- But not only is the sea such a foe to man who is an alien to it, but it is also a fiend to its own off-spring; worse than the Persian host who murdered his own guests; sparing not the creatures which itself hath spawned.
-- If your bitterest foe were walking straight towards you, with dagger uplifted in broad day, you would not be able to see him, any more than if he were stealing upon you from behind.
-- A foreign friend once pointed it out to me, in the skeleton of a foe he had slain, and with the vertebr脙娄 of which he was inlaying, in a sort of basso-relievo, the beaked prow of his canoe.
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