it是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为pron. 它; [作无人称动词的主语,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《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When he chose to take a walk it was with a regular step in the entrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illumined by blue painted windows.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is not certain that, in attaching himself to Doc Vickerson, Martin was entirely and edifyingly controlled by a desire to become a Great Healer.
-- It was the central room of the three occupied by Doc Vickerson, facing on Main Street above the New York Clothing Bazaar.
-- On one side of it was the foul waiting-room, on the other, the Doc's bedroom.
-- Against a brown plaster wall was a cabinet of zoological collections and medical curiosities, and beside it the most dreadful and fascinating object known to the boy-world of Elk Mills--a skeleton with one gaunt gold tooth.
-- The wild raggedness of the room was the soul and symbol of Doc Vickerson; it was more exciting than the flat-faced stack of shoe- boxes in the New York Bazaar: it was the lure to questioning and adventure for Martin Arrowsmith.
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:
-- Though his religious temper led him in the end to accept every suffering with resignation and to regard it as a blessing in his own case, he constantly recurs to the subject in his writings.
-- In the words of a Russian critic, who seeks to explain the feeling inspired by Dostoevsky: 'He was one of ourselves, a man of our blood and our bone, but one who has suffered and has seen so much more deeply than we have his insight impresses us as wisdom 芒聙娄 that wisdom of the heart which we seek that we may learn from it how to live.
-- All his other gifts came to him from nature, this he won for himself and Crime and Punishmentthrough it he became great.'
-- 'Hm 芒聙娄 yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom.
-- It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It also serves as anexpose of the inhuman treatment of19th-century children.
-- A Last Retrospect 7PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITIONI DO not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, inthe first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with thecomposure which this formal heading would seem to require.
-- It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know howsorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years'imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissingsome portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd ofthe creatures of his brain are going from him for ever.
-- Yet, I havenothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which mightbe of less moment still) that no one can ever believe this Narrative,in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.
-- LONDON October, 1850PREFACE TO THE 'CHARLES DICKENS' EDITIONI REMARKED in the original Preface to this Book, that I did notfind it easy to get sufficiently far away from it, in the firstsensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composurewhich this formal heading would seem to require.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Between them it was more the intimacy of sisters.
-- It was Miss Taylor's loss which first brought grief.
-- It was on the wedding-day of this beloved friend that Emma first sat in mournful thought of any continuance.
-- Mr. Weston was a man of unexceptionable character, easy fortune, suitable age, and pleasant manners; and there was some satisfaction in considering with what self-denying, generous friendship she had always wished and promoted the match; but it was a black morning's work for her.
-- She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed: intelligent, well-informed, useful, gentle, know-ing all the ways of the family, interested in all its concerns, and peculiarly interested in herself, in every pleasure, ev-ery scheme of hers one to whom she could speak every thought as it arose, and who had such an affection for her as could never find fault.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Far from the Madding CrowdPREFACEIn reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of "Far from the Madding Crowd," as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word "Wessex" from the pages of early English history, and give it a fictitious significance as the existing name of the district once included in that extinct kingdom.
-- But I believe I am correct in stating that, until the existence of this contemporaneous Wessex was announced in the present story, in 1874, it had never been heard of, and that the expression, "a Wessex peasant," or "a Wessex custom," would theretofore have been taken to refer to nothing later in date than the Norman Conquest.
-- The practice of divination by Bible and key, the regarding of valentines as things of serious import, the shearing-supper, and the harvest-home, have, too, nearly disappeared in the wake of the old houses; and with them have gone, it is said, much of that love of fuddling to which the village at one time was notoriously prone.
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