bit是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 一点, 一些; 小块, 少量; 片刻; [计,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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- (The starswere a bit lopsided, to be sure, some of them being almost round and others having six or even seven points, but theeffect was good.)
-- And when that gets a bit dangerous, I go to Nassau where these same Union patriots have broughtpowder and shells and hoop skirts for me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In our already-mentioned freemasonry as fellow-sufferers, and in his good-natured companionship with me, it was our evening habit to compare the way we bit through our slices, by silently holding them up to each other's admiration now and then,--which stimulated us to new exertions.
-- Not a bit of it!"
-- I heard Mr. Hubble remark that "a bit of savory pork pie would lay atop of anything you could mention, and do no harm," and I heard Joe say, "You shall have some, Pip."
-- There had been some light snow, overnight, and it lay nowhere else to my knowledge; but, it had not quite melted from the cold shadow of this bit of garden, and the wind caught it up in little eddies and threw it at the window, as if it pelted me for coming there.
-- There was an expression of contempt on his face, and he bit the side of a great forefinger as he watched the group of faces.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Besides,' added the dog, 'I should not be the worse for a bone or two, or a bit of meat.'
-- This frightened him dreadfully, and away he ran to the back door; but there the dog jumped up and bit him in the leg; and as he was crossing over the yard the ass kicked him; and the cock, who had been awakened by the noise, crowed with all his might.
-- The boar, however, had not quite hidden himself, for his ears stuck out of the bush; and when he shook one of them a little, the cat, seeing something move, and thinking it was a mouse, sprang upon it, and bit and scratched it, so that the boar jumped up and grunted, and ran away, roaring out, 'Look up in the tree, there sits the one who is to blame.'
-- I will eat a bit of the roof, and you Gretel, can eat some of the window, it will taste sweet.'
-- 'Ah,' said the wife, 'the poor knave came in the storm and rain, and begged for shelter, so I gave him a bit of bread and cheese, and showed him where the straw was.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The wife minced a bit of meat, then crumbled some bread on a trencher, and placed it before me.
-- Her majesty used to put a bit of meat upon one of my dishes, out of which I carved for myself, and her diver-sion was to see me eat in miniature: for the queen (who had indeed but a weak stomach) took up, at one mouthful, as much as a dozen English farmers could eat at a meal, which to me was for some time a very nauseous sight.
-- She would craunch the wing of a lark, bones and all, between her teeth, although it were nine times as large as that of a full-grown turkey; and put a bit of bread into her mouth as big as two twelve- penny loaves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He has been picking up a bit of reading for her, here and a bit of writing for her, there and a bit of ciphering for her, somewhere else these seven years.'
-- When I had gone down-stairs, I turned back that I might be a little bit more company to him yet, and looked in at the door, and said, "Father dear, shall I take Merrylegs?"
-- As if an astronomical observatory should be made without any windows, and the astronomer within should arrange the starry universe solely by pen, ink, and paper, so Mr. Gradgrind, in his Observatory (and there are many like it), had no need to cast an eye upon the teeming myriads of human beings around him, but could settle all their destinies on a slate, and wipe out all their tears with one dirty little bit of sponge.
-- I am a bit of dirty riff-raff, and a genuine scrap of tag, rag, and bobtail.'
-- I should like him to hear a short bit of dialogue between you and me, instead of taking the substance of it for I know precious well, beforehand, what it will be; nobody knows better than I do, take notice! instead of receiving it on trust from my mouth.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- May not this Saknussemm, ne phew mine, have hidden on this bit of parchment some astounding invention?
-- I could easily imagine him tearing along some solitary road, gesticulating, talking to himself, cutting the air with his cane, and still thinking of the absurd bit of hieroglyphics.
-- The cook had eaten the last bit of bread.
-- Here and there was a strip of discolored turf, like an old worn-out bit of woolen carpet; and now and then a bit of kitchen garden, in which grew potatoes, cabbage, and lettuce, almost diminutive enough to suggest the idea of Lilliput.
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