wrong是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 错的ad. 错误地, 不正确地n. 错误v. 委屈,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:
-- 'H'm!Well, you may be a good reader of riddles but you are wrong THERE, at all events.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I deem that the parting of Achaeans and Trojans is at hand, as well it may be, seeing how much have suffered for my quarrel with Alexandrus and the wrong he did me.
-- There she stayed them, unloosed them from the chariot, and gave them their ambrosial forage; but Venus flung herself on to the lap of her mother Dione, who threw her arms about her and caressed her, saying, 'Which of the heavenly beings has been treating you in this way, as though you had been doing something wrong in the face of day?'
-- He may offer me ten or even twenty times what he has now done, nay not though it be all that he has in the world, both now or ever shall have; he may promise me the wealth of Orcho-menus or of Egyptian Thebes, which is the richest city in the whole world, for it has a hundred gates through each of which two hundred men may drive at once with their chari-ots and horses; he may offer me gifts as the sands of the sea or the dust of the plain in multitude, but even so he shall not move me till I have been revenged in full for the bitter wrong he has done me.
-- There is nothing wrong in flying ruin even by night.
-- As for you, son of Atre-us, treat people more righteously in future; it is no disgrace even to a king that he should make amends if he was wrong in the first instance.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was struck especially by the curious movements of the legs of the three swathed and bandaged boatmen, not stiff they were, but distort-ed in some odd way, almost as if they were jointed in the wrong place.
-- What was wrong with them?
-- I did a little thing, a wrong thing, once.
-- If ever I made a remark he did not understand, he would praise it very much, ask me to say it again, learn it by heart, and go off repeating it, with a word wrong here or there, to all the milder of the Beast People.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'twas very natural!Come, friends, let us move our station, and in such fashion, too, as will throw the cunning of a Mingo on a wrong scent, or our scalps will be drying in the wind in front of Montcalm's marquee, ag'in this hour to-morrow.'
-- But I was wrong, Duncan, boy, I was wrong there; and I am now ready to hear what you have to say.'
-- The American is justly proud of the origin of his nation, which is perhaps unequaled in the history of the world; but the Pennsylvanian and Jerseyman have more reason to value themselves in their ancestors than the natives of any other state, since no wrong was done the original owners of the soil.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Your mere puny stripling, that winced at the least flourish of the rod, was passed by with indulgence; but the claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little tough wrong headed, broad-skirted Dutch ur-chin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch.
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:
-- He spluttered out words of apology for any wrong he had committed towards her; he told her he loved her devotedly and begged her to return to him.
-- He asked someone what was wrong with her, and was told that she had come down from the hills to ask him to visit a white man who was sick.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pencroft was not wrong in his anticipations.
-- "Only," observed Herbert, "at this moment our road is going the wrong way, for the tide is rising!"
-- The sailor was wrong to despise the proceeding.
-- But, perhaps, he was wrong not to follow the watercourse, as he and Herbert had done on their first excursion, for after walking an hour not a creature had shown itself.
-- The glade was transformed into a manufactory, and Pencroft was not far wrong in believing that from this kiln would issue all the products of modern industry.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It consisted of a brown body-coat with a great many brass buttons up the front and only one behind, a bright check neckerchief, a plaid waistcoat, soiled white trousers, and a very limp hat, worn with the wrong side foremost, to hide a hole in the brim.
-- This was the signal for a general clamour, which beginning in a low murmur gradually swelled into a great noise in which everybody spoke at once, and all said that she being a young woman had no right to set up her opinions against the experiences of those who knew so much better; that it was very wrong of her not to take the advice of people who had nothing at heart but her good; that it was next door to being downright ungrateful to conduct herself in that manner; that if she had no respect for herself she ought to have some for other women, all of whom she compromised by her meekness; and that if she had no respect for other women, the time would come when other women would have no respect for her; and she would be very sorry for that, they could tell her.
-- 'There's nothing dishonest or wrong in a supper, I hope?'
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