yawn是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vi. 打呵欠, 张开,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was the sensation of a moment: the white-bound head, the monstrous goggle eyes, and this huge yawn below it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then as the moon crept down from the zenith, one by one the listeners began to yawn (showing the odd-est teeth in the light of the sinking fire), and first one and then another retired towards the dens in the ravine; and I, dreading the silence and darkness, went with them, know-ing I was safer with several of them than with one alone.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- From the sound of this yawn alone she knew her son and seemed to see him living before her eyes.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Yes, but "She contracted a yawn to an inoffensive smallness, so that it was hardly ill-mannered at all.
-- Bathsheba, a small yawn upon her mouth, took the pen, and with off-hand serenity directed the missive to Boldwood.
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:
-- Stretching with the curious yawn of desire, for he had been alone and apart from man or woman for four years, he rose and took his coat again, and his gun, lowered the lamp and went out into the starry night, with the dog.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- returned the lady, tapping him on the arm with the green fan and then adroitly interposing it between a yawn and the company, 'how can you, as a man of the world and one of the most business-like of human beings for you know you are business-like, and a great deal too much for us who are not '(Which went to the former purpose, by making Mr Meagles out to be an artful schemer.)
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And there Meg sat, to 'rest and read', which meant to yawn and imagine what pretty summer dresses she would get with her salary.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only cho-sen because it was the second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, 'How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way!I declare after all there is no enjoyment like read-ing!How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking!I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The law's delay, and the quietus which his pangs might take, In the dead waste and middle of the night, when churchyards yawn In customary suits of solemn black, But that the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns, Breathes forth contagion on the world, And thus the native hue of resolution, like the poor cat i' the adage, Is sicklied o'er with care, And all the clouds that lowered o'er our housetops, With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The only relief poor Pinocchio had was to yawn; and he certainly did yawn, such a big yawn that his mouth stretched out to the tips of his ears.
-- It was many hours since he had eaten anything and he started to yawn from hunger.
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