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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is our author's first distinctly geographical romance.
-- Lord Edward, who was immediately apprised of the fact, came up on the poop a few minutes after with his cousin, and asked John Mangles, the captain, what sort of an animal he thought it was.
-- "Well, since your Lordship asks my opinion," said Mangles, "I think it is a shark, and a fine large one too."
-- It is the ‘balance-fish,' or hammer-headed shark, if I am not much mistaken.
-- But if your Lordship has no objections, and it would give the smallest pleasure to Lady Helena to see a novelty in the way of fishing, we'll soon haul up the monster and find out what it really is."
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:
-- It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a 'Penang lawyer.'
-- It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry dignified, solid, and reassuring.
-- The thick-iron ferrule is worn down, so it is evident that he has done a great amount of walking with it.'
-- It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
-- I was proud, too, to think that I had so far mastered his sys-tem as to apply it in a way which earned his approval.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The morning was so damp and misty that it was only with great difficulty that the day succeeded in breaking; and it was impossible to distinguish anything more than a few yards away from the carriage windows.
-- His face was decidedly a pleasant one for all that; refined, but quite colourless, except for the circum-stance that at this moment it was blue with cold.
-- Fancy if it had been a hard frost!I never thought it would be so cold in the old country.
-- 'I bet anything it is!'
-- It appeared that it was indeed as they had surmised.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.
-- And which of the gods was it that set them on to quar-rel?
-- It was the son of Jove and Leto; for he was angry with the king and sent a pestilence upon the host to plague the people, because the son of Atreus had dishonoured Chry-ses his priest.
-- She shall grow old in my house at Argos far from her own home, busying herself with her loom and visiting my couch; so go, and do not provoke me or it shall be the worse for you.'
-- Let us ask some priest or prophet, or some reader of dreams (for dreams, too, are of Jove) who can tell us why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say whether it is for some vow that we have bro-ken, or hecatomb that we have not offered, and whether he will accept the savour of lambs and goats without blemish, so as to take away the plague from us.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chirk, chirk, chirk, it went, the sound of a spoon being rapidly whisked round a basin.
-- And him a new guest and wanting to stay!Then she filled the mustard pot, and, putting it with a certain stateliness upon a gold and black tea-tray, carried it into the parlour.
-- It would seem he was picking something from the floor.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But as he was about to give it the first blow, he stood still with arm uplifted, for he had heard a wee, little voice say in a beseeching tone: "Please be careful!Do not hit me so hard!"
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