fragile是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 易碎的, 脆的, 易损坏的; 虚弱的, 脆弱的,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Amongst these specimens I will quote from memory only the elegant royal hammer-fish of the Indian Ocean, whose regular white spots stood out brightly on a red and brown ground, an imperial spondyle, bright-coloured, bristling with spines, a rare specimen in the European museums (I estimated its value at not less than L1000); a common hammer-fish of the seas of New Holland, which is only procured with difficulty; exotic buccardia of Senegal; fragile white bivalve shells, which a breath might shatter like a soap-bubble; several varieties of the aspirgillum of Java, a kind of calcareous tube, edged with leafy folds, and much debated by amateurs; a whole series of trochi, some a greenish-yellow, found in the American seas, others a reddish-brown, natives of Australian waters; others from the Gulf of Mexico, remarkable for their imbricated shell; stellari found in the Southern Seas; and last, the rarest of all, the magnificent spur of New Zealand; and every description of delicate and fragile shells to which science has given appropriate names.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He went over to her and kissed her fine, fragile hair, touching her wet cheeks gently.
-- His face was against her fine, fragile hair, he breathed its fragrance with the sea and the profound night.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then one of them suddenly asked me a question that showed him to be on the intellectual level of one of our five-year-old children asked me, in fact, if I had come from the sun in a thunderstorm!It let loose the judgment I had suspended upon their clothes, their frail light limbs, and fragile features.
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