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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'm dreadfully in debt, and it won't be my turn to have the rag money for a month.'
-- Jo, your turn will come in time, perhaps, so listen to my 'plans' and help me carry them out, if they are good.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But at that moment he chanced to turn his face so towards the light, that I plainly saw they could not be sticking-plasters at all, those black squares on his cheeks.
-- "I thought ye know'd it; didn't I tell ye, he was a peddlin' heads around town? but turn flukes again and go to sleep.
-- "Landlord," said I, "tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe, or whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will turn in with him.
-- For I was not prepared to see Father Mapple after gaining the height, slowly turn round, and stooping over the pulpit, deliberately drag up the ladder step by step, till the whole was deposited within, leaving him impregnable in his little Quebec.
-- For when Jonah, not yet supplicating God for mercy, since he but too well knew the darkness of his deserts, when wretched Jonah cries out to them to take him and cast him forth into the sea, for he knew that for his sake this great tempest was upon them; they mercifully turn from him, and seek by other means to save the ship.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And this was it: The members of this board were very sage, deep, philosophical men; and when they came to turn their attention to the workhouse, they found out at once, what ordinary folks would never have discovered--the poor people liked it!It was a regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes; a tavern where there was nothing to pay; a public breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper all the year round; a brick and mortar elysium, where it was all play and no work.
-- I wish some well-fed philosopher, whose meat and drink turn to gall within him; whose blood is ice, whose heart is iron; could have seen Oliver Twist clutching at the dainty viands that the dog had neglected.
-- His heart beat quickly when he bethought himself of this; and he half res olved to turn back.
-- Ah, it's a fine thing for the trade!Five of 'em strung up in a row, and none left to play booty, or turn white-livered!'
-- Away they run, pell -mell, helter-skelter, slap-dash: tearing, yelling, screaming, knocking down the passengers as they turn the corners, rousing up the dogs, and astonishing the fowls: and streets, squares, and courts, re-echo with the sound.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'It will be HER turn soon to be teased,' said Miss Lucas.
-- Elizabeth, for the sake of saying something that might turn her mother's thoughts, now asked her if Charlotte Lu-cas had been at Longbourn since HER coming away.
-- But I am afraid you are giving it a turn which that gentleman did by no means intend; for he would certainly think better of me, if under such a cir-cumstance I were to give a flat denial, and ride off as fast as I could.'
-- In the desperation of her feelings, she resolved on one effort more, and, turning to Elizabeth, said: 'Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my ex-ample, and take a turn about the room.
-- It is from my cousin, Mr. Collins, who, when I am dead, may turn you all out of this house as soon as he pleases.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I lived with him some time, and acquainted myself by that means with the manner of planting and making of sugar; and seeing how well the planters lived, and how they got rich suddenly, I resolved, if I could get a licence to settle there, I would turn planter among them: resolving in the meantime to find out some way to get my money, which I had left in London, remitted to me.
-- As the rage of the wind was still great, though rather less than at first, we could not so much as hope to have the ship hold many minutes without breaking into pieces, unless the winds, by a kind of miracle, should turn immediately about.
-- But I must observe, too, that at first this was a confused heap of goods, which, as they lay in no order, so they took up all my place; I had no room to turn myself: so I set my-self to enlarge my cave, and work farther into the earth; for it was a loose sandy rock, which yielded easily to the labour I bestowed on it: and so when I found I was pretty safe as to beasts of prey, I worked sideways, to the right hand, into the rock; and then, turning to the right again, worked quite out, and made me a door to come out on the outside of my pale or fortification.
-- I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians); but with much chopping and cutting knotty hard wood, they were all full of notches, and dull; and though I had a grindstone, I could not turn it and grind my tools too.
-- At length I contrived a wheel with a string, to turn it with my foot, that I might have both my hands at liberty.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But Edward had no turn for great men or barouches.
-- Margaret agreed, and they pursued their way against the wind, resisting it with laughing delight for about twenty minutes longer, when suddenly the clouds united over their heads, and a driving rain set full in their face. Chagrined and surprised, they were obliged, though unwillingly, to turn back, for no shelter was nearer than their own house.
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