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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the arrow did the bird no harm; only it dropped a golden feather from its tail, and then flew away.
-- Everyone agreed that it was worth more than all the wealth of the kingdom: but the king said, 'One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.'
-- You will reach a vil-lage in the evening; and when you get there, you will see two inns opposite to each other, one of which is very pleas-ant and beautiful to look at: go not in there, but rest for the night in the other, though it may appear to you to be very poor and mean.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There is an air of truth apparent through the whole; and indeed the author was so distinguished for his veracity, that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbours at Redriff, when any one af-firmed a thing, to say, it was as true as if Mr. Gulliver had spoken it.
-- And if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him.
-- But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minis-ter; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
-- Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consid-er, when you insisted on the motive of public good, that the Yahoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it has proved; for, instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corrup-tions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my in- tentions.
-- And it must be owned, that seven months were a sufficient time to correct every vice and folly to which Yahoos are subject, if their na-tures had been capable of the least disposition to virtue or wisdom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders, nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was, all helped the emphasis.
-- With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
-- It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic.
-- But, whereas the girl was so dark-eyed and dark-haired, that she seemed to receive a deeper and more lustrous colour from the sun, when it shone upon her, the boy was so light-eyed and light-haired that the self-same rays appeared to draw out of him what little colour he ever possessed.
-- To continue in fistic phraseology, he had a genius for coming up to the scratch, wherever and whatever it was, and proving himself an ugly customer.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a reason, and it may be regarded as a good one, why my uncle objected to display his learning more than was absolutely necessary: he stammered; and when intent upon explaining the phenomena of the heavens, was apt to find himself at fault, and allude in such a vague way to sun, moon, and stars that few were able to comprehend his meaning.
-- To tell the honest truth, when the right word would not come, it was generally replaced by a very powerful adjective.
-- It was a rare thing for me to be absent from his lectures.
-- So much indeed did it resemble that useful article, that a compass was said in his presence to have made considerable N (Nasal) deviation.
-- It is further necessary to observe that he lived in a very nice house, in that very nice street, the Konigstrasse at Hamburg.
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:
-- Chapter 1 urs is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it Otragically.
-- It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.
-- It was obvious in the anxious brightness of his eyes, how proud he was, after the great shock, of being alive.
-- It was not so at all.
-- It was their natural atmosphere.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The line of demarcation between the two colours, black and blue, showed the point which the pure sea would not pass; but it lay as quiet as the abominable pool, with which it never mixed.
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