do是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为aux. /v. /vt. 做, 干, 办, 从事; 引起vi. 行动,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:
-- Bring down my mackintosh and traveling-cloak, and some stout shoes, though we shall do little walking.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not thing I can do for her.
-- It was believed that he was the son of a German prince, that he had immense wealth, that he lived as sparsely as the other professors only because he was doing terrifying and costly experiments which probably had something to do with human sacrifice.
-- "Honest, I know I could do it now."
-- I do not like potatoes, and the potatoes they do not ever seem to have great affection for me, but I take them and teach them to kill patients.
-- Honest, do you believe that junk?"
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:
-- He had given up attending to matters of practi-cal importance; he had lost all desire to do so.
-- Nothing that any landlady could do had a real terror for him.
-- It's because I chatter that I do nothing.
-- Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing.
-- 'If I am so scared now, what would it be if it somehow came to pass that I were really going to do it?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 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.
-- But I do not at all complain of having been kept out of thisproperty; and if any- body else should be in the present enjoymentof it, he is heartily welcome to keep it.
-- 'Don't do that!
-- My mother was too much afraid of her to refuse compliance withthis odd request, if she had any disposition to do so.
-- 'Do you mean the house, ma'am?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whenever I see her, she always curtseys and asks me how I do, in a very pretty manner; and when you have had her here to do needlework, I observe she always turns the lock of the door the right way and never bangs it.
-- 'My dearest papa!You do not think I could mean you, or suppose Mr. Knightley to mean you.
-- Pray do not make any more matches.'
-- 'I do not understand what you mean by 'success,'' said Mr. Knightley.
-- A worthy employment for a young lady's mind!But if, which I rather imagine, your making the match, as you call it, means only your planning it, your saying to yourself one idle day, 'I think it would be a very good thing for Miss Tay-lor if Mr. Weston were to marry her,' and saying it again to yourself every now and then afterwards, why do you talk of success?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The first to do so was the now defunct Examiner, which, in the impression bearing date July 15, 1876, entitled one of its articles "The Wessex Labourer," the article turning out to be no dissertation on farming during the Heptarchy, but on the modern peasant of the south-west counties, and his presentation in these stories.
-- She did not adjust her hat, or pat her hair, or press a dimple into shape, or do one thing to signify that any such intention had been her motive in taking up the glass.
-- Yet, although if occasion demanded he could do or think a thing with as mercurial a dash as can the men of towns who are more to the manner born, his special power, morally, physically, and mentally, was static, owing little or nothing to momentum as a rule.
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