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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.
-- Mr. Oak carried about him, by way of watch, what may be called a small silver clock; in other words, it was a watch as to shape and intention, and a small clock as to size.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her house (known in the neighborhood as the _Maison Vauquer_) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest.
-- That word drama has been somewhat discredited of late; it has been overworked and twisted to strange uses in these days of dolorous literature; but it must do service again here, not because this story is dramatic in the 莽卢卢 1 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 restricted sense of the word, but because some tears may perhaps be shed _intra et extra muros_ before it is over.
-- It is open to doubt.
-- It is still standing in the lower end of the Rue Nueve- Sainte-Genevieve, just where the road slopes so sharply down to the Rue de l'Arbalete, that wheeled traffic seldom passes that way, because it is so stony and steep.
-- It is the ugliest quarter of Paris, and, it may be added, the least known.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents it-self to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight.
-- These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul and lifted it to heaven.
-- I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling.
-- But it is a still greater evil to me that I am self-educated: for the first fourteen years of my life I ran wild on a common and read nothing but our Uncle Thomas' books of voyages.
-- At that age I became acquainted with the celebrated poets of our own country; but it was only when it had ceased to be in my power to derive its most important benefits from such a conviction that I perceived the necessity of becoming acquainted with more languages than that of my native country.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is one of the most popular books ever written ; more than 28 million copies of the book... Part One CHAPTER I SCARLETT O'HARA was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarletontwins were.
-- But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw.
-- It was for this precise reason that Stuart and Brent were idling on the porch of Tara this April afternoon.
-- Stuart and Brent considered their latest expulsion a fine joke, and Scarlett, who had notwillingly opened a book since leaving the Fayetteville Female Academy the year before, thought it just as amusing asthey did.
-- I'm mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it seceded or it would haveruined the Christmas parties, too.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
-- "Give it mouth!"
-- When the church came to itself,--for he was so sudden and strong that he made it go head over heels before me, and I saw the steeple under my feet,--when the church came to itself, I say, I was seated on a high tombstone, trembling while he ate the bread ravenously.
-- You fail, or you go from my words in any partickler, no matter how small it is, and your heart and your liver shall be tore out, roasted, and ate.
-- It is in wain for a boy to attempt to hide himself from that young man.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone.
-- As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener's son jumped up and shot an arrow at it.
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