fitting是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 适合的, 恰当的; n. 试衣; 建筑物中的装置,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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To Sergey Ivanovitch the country was particularly good, because there it was possible and fitting to do nothing.
-- Putting a cup before Anna, she took out a cigarette, and, fitting it into a silver holder, she lighted it.
-- It was evident that ample supplies of beefsteak, truffles, and Burgundy never failed to reach him at the fitting hour.
-- The point was that in the lodge that was being built the carpenter had spoiled the staircase, fitting it together without calculating the space it was to fill, so that the steps were all sloping when it was put in place.
-- "Yes, hers was the fitting end for such a woman.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- grunted the studious audience, doubtful whether it was fitting to be amused, offended, bored, or edified.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- he cried triumphantly, fitting it on, 'just your size!A proper head-covering is the first thing in dress and a recommendation in its own way.
-- Disregarding public opinion for your sake and reinstating your reputation, I certainly might very well reckon on a fitting return, and might in-deed look for gratitude on your part.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was close beside me, when I walkedaway from the house, slowly fitting his long skeleton fingers intothe still longer fingers of a great Guy Fawkes pair of gloves.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As to shepherd, there, I'm sure mis'ess ought to have made ye her baily such a fitting man for't as you be."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hear my tale; it is long and strange, and the temperature of this place is not fitting to your fine sensations; come to the hut upon the mountain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, andthe tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were two men of secret appearance lounging in Bartholomew Close, and thoughtfully fitting their feet into the cracks of the pavement as they talked together, one of whom said to the other when they first passed me, that "Jaggers would do it if it was to be done."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In a preposterous coat, like a beadle's, with cuffs and flaps exaggerated to an unspeakable extent; in an immense waistcoat, knee-breeches, buckled shoes, and a mad cocked hat; with nothing fitting him, and everything of coarse material, moth-eaten and full of holes; with seams in his black face, where fear and heat had started through the greasy composition daubed all over it; anything so grimly, detestably, ridiculously shameful as the whelp in his comic livery, Mr. Gradgrind never could by any other means have believed in, weighable and measurable fact though it was.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The roll of carriages in the Park was done for the day; the street lamps were lighting; and wicked little grooms in the tightest fitting garments, with twists in their legs answering to the twists in their minds, hung about in pairs, chewing straws and exchanging fraudulent secrets.
-- 'He is away with Mrs Merdle,' returned that gentleman, slowly coming out of a long abstraction, in the course of which he had been fitting a tablespoon up his sleeve.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I want to learn some new songs, and my children need fitting up for the summer.
-- Laurie longed to say something tender and comfortable, but no fitting words came to him, so he stood silent, gen-tly stroking her bent head as her mother used to do.
-- So, sitting at the dear little piano, Beth softly touched the keys, and in the sweet voice they had never thought to hear again, sang to her own accompaniment the quaint hymn, which was a singularly fitting song for her.
-- 'Yes, I do, but you'd better wait till you are through college, on the whole, and be fitting yourself for the place meantime.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Until Cabaco's published discovery, the sailors had little foreseen it, though to be sure when, after being a little while out of port, all hands had concluded the customary business of fitting the whaleboats for service; when some time after this Ahab was now and then found bestirring himself in the matter of making thole-pins with his own hands for what was thought to be one of the spare boats, and even solicitously cutting the small wooden skewers, which when the line is running out are pinned over the groove in the bow: when all this was observed in him, and particularly his solicitude in having an extra coat of sheathing in the bottom of the boat, as if to make it better withstand the pointed pressure of his ivory limb; and also the anxiety he evinced in exactly shaping the thigh board, or clumsy cleat, as it is sometimes called, the horizontal piece in the boat's bow for bracing the knee against in darting or stabbing at the whale; when it was observed how often he stood up in that boat with his solitary knee fixed in the semi-circular depression in the cleat, and with the carpenter's chisel gouged out a little here and straightened it a little there; all these things, I say, had awakened much interest and curiosity at the time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong: which could not fail to have been both pleasurable and profitable to the right-minded reader but which he is unfortunately compelled, by want of time and space, to postpone to some more convenient and fitting opportunity; on the arrival of which, he will be prepared to show, that a beadle properly constituted: that is to say, a parochial beadle, attached to a parochail workhouse, and attending in his official capacity the parochial church: is, in right and virtue of his office, possessed of all the excellences and best qualities of humanity; and that to none of those excellences, can mere companies' beadles, or court-of-law beadles, or even chapel-of-ease beadles (save the last, and they in a very lowly and inferior degree), lay the remotest sustainable claim.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My patron lying at home longer than usual without fitting out his ship, which, as I heard, was for want of money, he used constantly, once or twice a week, sometimes oftener if the weather was fair, to take the ship's pinnace and go out into the road a- fishing; and as he always took me and young Maresco with him to row the boat, we made him very merry, and I proved very dexterous in catching fish; insomuch that sometimes he would send me with a Moor, one of his kinsmen, and the youth - the Maresco, as they called him - to catch a dish of fish for him.
-- Having knocked this fellow down, the other who pursued him stopped, as if he had been frightened, and I advanced towards him: but as I came nearer, I perceived presently he had a bow and arrow, and was fitting it to shoot at me: so I was then obliged to shoot at him first, which I did, and killed him at the first shot.
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