ever是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 曾经; 永远; 在任何时候; 究竟,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This, however, none of them could ever do; for the thorns and bushes laid hold of them, as it were with hands; and there they stuck fast, and died wretchedly.
-- But when the princess awoke on the following morning she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince, gazing on her with the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen, and standing at the head of her bed.
-- 'Nothing ever seems so good as what one keeps to oneself,' said she, and was quite satis-fied with her day's work.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my sev-eral voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month: and I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any copy left: however, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert, if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid read-ers to adjust it as they please.
-- I lay down on the grass, which was very short and soft, where I slept sounder than ever I remembered to have done in my life, and, as I reckoned, about nine hours; for when I awaked, it was just day-light.
-- When the workmen found it was impossible for me to break loose, they cut all the strings that bound me; whereupon I rose up, with as melancholy a disposition as ever I had in my life.
-- But this was the only time I was ever guilty of so uncleanly an action; for which I cannot but hope the candid reader will give some allowance, after he has maturely and impartially considered my case, and the distress I was in.
-- As soon as they got into order they divided into two parties, per-formed mock skirmishes, discharged blunt arrows, drew their swords, fled and pursued, attacked and retired, and in short discovered the best military discipline I ever beheld.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them.
-- But, whereas the girl was so dark-eyed and dark-haired, that she seemed to receive a deeper and more lustrous colour from the sun, when it shone upon her, the boy was so light-eyed and light-haired that the self-same rays appeared to draw out of him what little colour he ever possessed.
-- Do you ever see horses walking up and down the sides of rooms in reality in fact?
-- No little Gradgrind had ever seen a face in the moon; it was up in the moon before it could speak distinctly.
-- No little Gradgrind had ever learnt the silly jingle, Twinkle, twinkle, little star; how I wonder what you are!No little Gradgrind had ever known wonder on the subject, each little Gradgrind having at five years old dissected the Great Bear like a Professor Owen, and driven Charles's Wain like a locomotive engine-driver.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The lines shown here are an exact facsimile of what was written on the venerable piece of parchment--and have wonderful importance, as they induced my uncle to undertake the most wonderful series of adventures which ever fell to the lot of human beings.
-- No living being should ever know.
-- He found out the entrance to the bowels of the earth, he has indicated correctly, but that he or anyone else ever followed up the discovery is madness to suppose."
-- The earth was enough for me, and no ambitious desire to soar ever entered my mind.
-- Hans declared that nothing ever would make him climb on t he back of any animal.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Neither was ever in love with a young man unless he and she were verbal-ly very near: that is unless they were profoundly interested, TALKING to one another.
-- Sometimes he was handsome: sometimes as he looked sideways, down-wards, and the light fell on him, he had the silent, enduring beauty of a carved ivory Negro mask, with his rather full eyes, and the strong queerly-arched brows, the immobile, compressed mouth; that momentary but revealed immobil-ity, an immobility, a timelessness which the Buddha aims at, and which Negroes express sometimes without ever aim-ing at it; something old, old, and acquiescent in the race!
-- And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever quite love at all.
-- I don't believe you would ever care for a man who was purely antipathetic to me.
-- How could one ever know?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Have I ever done anything here?
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