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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Probably he has very strict instructions on that score; but I assure you I did not come to beg.
-- It's a very strict household, there!'
-- When, with an air of mystery, she asked her visitor's name, he refused at first to answer, but in a moment he changed his mind, and left strict instructions that it should be given to Nastasia Philipovna.
-- This is simply a case of conscience and of strict justice.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Asteropaeus flew forward to avenge him and attack the Danaans, but this might no longer be, inasmuch as those about Patroclus were well covered by their shields, and held their spears in front of them, for Ajax had given them strict orders that no man was either to give ground, or to stand out before the others, but all were to hold well together about the body and fight hand to hand.
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:
-- Filling it with water, he retired a short distance, to a place where the ground was more firm and dry; here he coolly seated himself, and after taking a long, and, apparently, a grateful draught, he com-menced a very strict examination of the fragments of food left by the Hurons, which had hung in a wallet on his arm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This Mr Swiveller gave them faithfully as regarded the wishes and character of the single gentleman, and poetically as concerned the great trunk, of which he gave a description more remarkable for brilliancy of imagination than a strict adherence to truth; declaring, with many strong asseverations, that it contained a specimen of every kind of rich food and wine, known in these times, and in particular that it was of a self-acting kind and served up whatever was required, as he supposed by clock-work.
-- Kit was then put under examination and closely questioned by the unknown gentleman, touching his old master and the child, their lonely way of life, their retired habits, and strict seclusion.
-- Every evening, and often in the day-time too, he was absent, alone; and although she well knew where he went, and why too well from the constant drain upon her scanty purse and from his haggard looks he evaded all inquiry, maintained a strict reserve, and even shunned her presence.
-- If they confined him closely, and kept a strict guard upon him, they might hold him prisoner, but if he could by any means escape, he would surely wander back to that place, or die upon the road.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Why, I even had to employ strict measures, had her transferred to another cell.
-- He scarcely held to the traditions of the sixties, and if he ever deviated from strict impartiality, it was invariably in favor of liberality.
-- Nikitin, who, as usual, stood for severity and for strict formality, was against it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These people of the remote future were strict vegetarians, and while I was with them, in spite of some carnal cravings, I had to be frugivorous also.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, Mr. Earnshaw did not understand jokes from his children: he had always been strict and grave with them; and Catherine, on her part, had no idea why her father should be crosser and less patient in his ailing condition than he was in his prime.
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