hesitation是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 犹豫, 踌躇,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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But now that she herself proposed to go, all hesitation was at an end.
-- The Major resolved to find out what these fellows were about, and without the least hesitation or so much as arousing his companions, crept along, lying flat on the ground, like a savage on the prairies, completely hidden among the long grass.
-- Without the least hesitation I determined to appropriate the DUNCAN, a matchless vessel, able to outdistance the swiftest ships in the British Navy.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Have no hesitation in lighting one.'
-- Yes, I have very little hesitation in saying that could we examine the waste-paper baskets of the hotels around Charing Cross until we found the remains of the mutilated Times leader we could lay our hands straight upon the person who sent this singular mes-sage.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gentlemen, I have no hesitation in telling you that it was the fact of Tchebaroff's intervention that made me suspect a fraud.
-- After this there was no hesitation about breaking open the door, since it could not be got open in any other way.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But I'm really glad to have the clock seen to," he said, seeing a certain hesitation in Mr. Henfrey's manner.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I found him detestable, and as soon as he was out of danger I had no hesitation in telling him so.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Here," replied Spilett, after some hesitation tearing a leaf out of his note-book.
-- What splendid specimens of the flora of this latitude!Certainly their presence would have been enough for a botanist to name without hesitation the parallel which traversed Lincoln Island.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I walked past the house, and took several turns in the street, with that kind of hesitation which is natural to a man who is conscious that the visit he is about to pay is unexpected, and may not be very acceptable.
-- When they had all passed, and the sound of their footsteps had died away, one of them returned, and after a little hesitation and rustling in the passage, as if he were doubtful what door to knock at, knocked at hers.
-- If the truth must be told, even Mr Swiveller's approaches to the single gentleman were of a very distant kind, and met with small encouragement; but, as he never returned from a monosyllabic conference with the unknown, without quoting such expressions as 'Swiveller, I know I can rely upon you,' 'I have no hesitation in saying, Swiveller, that I entertain a regard for you,' 'Swiveller, you are my friend, and will stand by me I am sure,' with many other short speeches of the same familiar and confiding kind, purporting to have been addressed by the single gentleman to himself, and to form the staple of their ordinary discourse, neither Mr Brass nor Miss Sally for a moment questioned the extent of his influence, but accorded to him their fullest and most unqualified belief.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And a moment of hesitation came over him.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, the coxswain's hesitation seemed to be unnatural, and as for the notion of his preferring wine to brandy, I entirely disbelieved it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I aspired to nothing more than again seeing my country, my friends, my little lodging by the Jardin des Plantes, my dear and precious collections but nothing could keep me back!I forgot all fatigue, friends and collections and accepted without hesitation the offer of the American Government.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was not a selfish fear or hesitation that rendered him uneasy, but a mistrust lest Pancks might not observe his part of the understanding between them, and, making any discovery, might take some course upon it without imparting it to him.
-- She was at a loss which way to turn when she had softly closed the door; but, after a little hesitation among the sounding passages and the many ways, came to a room in a corner of the main gallery, where the servants were at their supper.
-- Mr Dorrit's speech had had more hesitation in it than usual, as he approached the ticklish topic, for he was not perfectly clear how so exalted a potentate might take it.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have scarcely any hesitation in saying she will include you and my sister Maria in every invitation with which she honours us during your stay here.
-- These are conditions which, considering everything, I had no hesitation in complying with, as far as I thought myself privileged, for you.
-- This was one point, with regard to Lydia, at least, which was now to be settled, and Mr. Bennet could have no hesitation in acceding to the proposal before him.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This renewed a contemplation which often had come into my thoughts in former times, when first I began to see the merciful disposi-tions of Heaven, in the dangers we run through in this life; how wonderfully we are delivered when we know nothing of it; how, when we are in a quandary as we call it, a doubt or hesitation whether to go this way or that way, a secret hint shall direct us this way, when we intended to go that way: nay, when sense, our own inclination, and perhaps business has called us to go the other way, yet a strange impression upon the mind, from we know not what springs, and by we know not what power, shall overrule us to go this way; and it shall afterwards appear that had we gone that way, which we should have gone, and even to our imagination ought to have gone, we should have been ruined and lost.
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