strict是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. (with) 严格的, 严厉的; 严谨的, 精确的,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Papers and precious matters were this very day brought to us here (I speak in strict confidence; it is not business-like to whisper it, even to you), by the strangest bearers you can imagine, every one of whom had his head hanging on by a single hair as he passed the Barriers.
-- 376 A tale of two citiesIII The Shadow ne of the first considerations which arose in the busi-Oness mind of Mr. Lorry when business hours came round, was this: that he had no right to imperil Tellson's by sheltering the wife of an emigrant prisoner under the Bank roof, His own possessions, safety, life, he would have hazarded for Lucie and her child, without a moment's de-mur; but the great trust he held was not his own, and as to that business charge he was a strict man of business.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But he had found a girl--he'd show her to Vronsky--a marvel, exquisite, in the strict Oriental style, "genre of the slave Rebecca, don't you know."
-- He had no need to be strict with himself, as he had very quickly been brought down to the required light weight; but still he had to avoid gaining flesh, and so he eschewed farinaceous and sweet dishes.
-- "Very well!But I expect a strict observance of the external forms of propriety till such time"--his voice shook--"as I may take measures to secure my honor and communicate them to you."
-- But in her family she was strict in carrying out all that was required by the Church--and not merely in order to set an example, but with all her heart in it.
-- "I must inform her of my conclusion, that thinking over the terrible position in which she has placed her family, all other solutions will be worse for both sides than an external status quo, and that such I agree to retain, on the strict condition of obedience on her part to my wishes, that is to say, cessation of all intercourse with her lover."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the gossip at luncheon clubs, in discussions at the Parents' and Teachers' Association, in one frank signed protest sent to the Mayor, Martin was blamed for too strict an inspection of milk, for insufficiently strict inspection of milk; for permitting garbage to lie untouched, for persecuting the overworked garbage collectors; and when a case of small-pox appeared in the Bohemian section, there was an opinion that Martin had gone out personally and started it.
-- Sometimes Stokes was there, looking anxious, particularly when in the queue he saw plantation- hands from St. Swithin's, who were supposed to remain in their parish under strict control, to test the value of the phage.
-- "Oh, I'm onto Gottlieb!Of course you know as well as I do that he always was a self-advertiser, getting himself talked about by confidin' to the whole ops terrara what a strict scientist he was, and putting on a lot of dog and emitting these wise cracks about philosophy and what fierce guys the regular docs were.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I must say that I had my doubts about the strict justice of this, andwas not even frightened out of them by the bushel of wheat whichreconciles all anomalies.
-- As to Miss Murdstone,' for I hadalluded to her in the letter, 'I respect that lady's vigilance, and feelobliged to her; but she has strict charge to avoid the subject.
-- Giving her a strict charge to becareful of her manner, and only to carry in my card and say Iwaited, I sat down in the drawing-room (which we had nowreached) until she should come back.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I shall write to Mrs. Partridge in a day or two, and shall give her a strict charge to be on the look-out for any thing eligible.'
-- So unlike what a man should be! None of that upright integrity, that strict 486 Emmaadherence to truth and principle, that disdain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.'
-- and it may be a very fortunate circumstance for him, for Frank, I mean, that he should have attached himself to a girl of such steadi-ness of character and good judgment as I have always given her credit for and still am disposed to give her credit for, in spite of this one great deviation from the strict rule of right.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- she exclaimed, with severe remonstrance, "you who are so strict with the other men see what you are doing yourself!"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Apparently, such strict economy was called for, that he did without a fire all through the winter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Wopsle, Joe, and I, received strict charge to keep in the rear, and to speak no word after we reached the marshes.
-- I had received strict orders from my sister to call for him at the Three Jolly Bargemen, that evening, on my way from school, and bring him home at my peril.
-- "Which I meantersay, Pip," Joe now observed in a manner that was at once expressive of forcible argumentation, strict confidence, and great politeness, "as I hup and married your sister, and I were at the time what you might call (if you was anyways inclined) a single man."
-- It were yesterday afternoon" (with an appearance of mingled wisdom, relief, and strict impartiality).
-- "And Magwitch--in New South Wales--having at last disclosed himself," said Mr. Jaggers, "you will comprehend, Pip, how rigidly throughout my communication with you, I have always adhered to the strict line of fact.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I answered in a few words, but in the most sub-missive manner, lifting up my left hand, and both my eyes to the sun, as calling him for a witness; and being almost famished with hunger, having not eaten a morsel for some hours before I left the ship, I found the demands of nature so strong upon me, that I could not forbear showing my im-patience (perhaps against the strict rules of decency) by putting my finger frequently to my mouth, to signify that I wanted food.
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