turn是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. /n. (使) 转动; (使) 旋转; (使) 转变n. 机会,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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They bury their dead with their heads directly down-ward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Turn this girl to the right about, and there's an end of it.'
-- 'Bitzer, turn you about and take yourself home.
-- 'And yet, sir,' he would say, 'how does it turn out after all?
-- Never fear, good people of an anxious turn of mind, that Art will consign Nature to oblivion.
-- Please to turn your humble eye in My direction.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My uncle at once ordered me to turn my steps that way, and accordingly we went on board the steam ferry boat which does duty on the canal, and very soon reached the noted dockyard quay.
-- But, really, to turn to another subject, I hope you will not leave our island without examining into its mineralogical riches."
-- When a sudden turn of the track brought us within easy reach of one of these specters, I felt a sudden impulse of disgust at the sight of a swollen head, with shining skin, utterly without hair, and whose repulsive and revolting wounds could be seen through his rags.
-- "But," said I, "is it not very much to be feared that this ever-increasing pressure may not in the end turn out very painful and inconvenient?"
-- Travelers who bury themselves in the wilds and depths of the African desert, who seek profit and pleasure in the forests of the New World, are compelled to take it in turn to watch during the hours of sleep; but in this region of the earth absolute solitude and complete security reigned supreme.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connexion.
-- Only life may turn quite a new face on it all.'
-- 'Will you turn the chair round and get it started?
-- The man was looking at her with those blue, all-seeing eyes of his, which made her turn her face aside a little.
-- And she watched the daffodils turn golden, in a burst of sun that was warm on her hands and lap.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They took one silent turn backward and forward in the shade of the wall, getting, at the height on which the quarantine barracks are placed, what cool refreshment of sea breeze there was at seven in the morning.
-- Whenever I see a beadle in full fig, coming down a street on a Sunday at the head of a charity school, I am obliged to turn and run away, or I should hit him.
-- 'Your daughter,' said the other, when they had taken another silent turn to and fro, and, after standing for a moment at the wall glancing down at the sea, had resumed their walk, 'is your only child, I know, Mr Meagles.
-- Mask them all, and the mere turn of the head would have shown an unsubduable nature.
-- A moment before, I thought him wandering in his mind, as he had been for many hours I think he had no consciousness of pain in his short illness when I saw him turn himself in his bed and try to open it.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It didn't matter so much when you were a little girl, but now you are so tall, and turn up your hair, you should remember that you are a young lady.'
-- 'I used to be so frightened when it was my turn to sit in the chair with the crown on, and see you all come marching round to give the presents, with a kiss.
-- 'Now, Marmee, that is very cunning of you to turn our own stories against us, and give us a sermon instead of a ro-mance!'
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