current是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 电流, 水流; 潮流, 趋势a. 当前的; 流通的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, though the bank was almost always with him, and though the coach (in a confused way, like the presence of pain under an opiate) was always with him, there was an-other current of impression that never ceased to run, all through the night.
-- The hands of the clock verging upon the hour of closing the Bank, there was a general set of the current of talkers past Mr. Lorry's desk.
-- But, though the Doctor tried hard, and never ceased try-ing, to get Charles Darnay set at liberty, or at least to get him brought to trial, the public current of the time set too strong and fast for him.
-- Yet the current of the time swept by, so strong and deep, and carried the time away so fiercely, that Charles had lain in prison one year 390 A tale of two citiesand three months when the Doctor was thus steady and confident.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So that he needed at least six thousand roubles for current expenses, and he only had one thousand eight hundred.
-- On beginning to talk to the peasants about it, and making a proposition to cede them the land on new terms, he came into collision with the same great difficulty that they were so much absorbed by the current work of the day, that they had not time to consider the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed scheme.
-- But what contributed more than all to his success was his direct, equable manner with everyone, which very quickly made the majority of the noblemen reverse the current opinion of his supposed haughtiness.
-- He saw that Metrov, like other people, in spite of his own article, in which he had attacked the current theory of political economy, looked at the position of the Russian peasant simply from the point of view of capital, wages, and rent.
-- And so you're still as ever enjoying your peaceful, quiet happiness," he said, smiling, "out of the reach of the current in your peaceful backwater.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Opposite them, on the other side of the street, between a coal wharf and a petroleum warehouse, a large platform had been erected in the open air, towards which the current of the crowd seemed to be directed.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They stood alone, under the balcony, disconsolately facing the vastness of the floor, while beyond them flashed the current of dancers, beautiful, formidable, desirable.
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 relied on Andrey Semyo-novitch for this and before his visit to Raskolnikov he had succeeded in picking up some current phrases.
-- I expect they talked of nothing else but me and no doubt Avdotya Romanovna heard all those dark mysterious rumours that were current about me芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'This is either insanity or intoxication,' said Miss Murdstone, in aperfect agony at not being able to turn the current of my aunt'saddress towards herself; 'and my suspicion is that it's intoxication.'
-- In fact, there was a story current among us (I have no idea, andnever had, on what authority, but I have believed it for so manyyears that I feel quite certain it is true), that on a frosty day, onewinter-time, he actually did bestow his gaiters on a beggar-woman, who occasioned some scandal in the neighbourhood byexhibiting a fine infant from door to door, wrapped in thosegarments, which were universally recognised, being as well knownin the vicinity as the cathedral.
-- I have desiredto keep the most secret current of my mind apart, and to the last.
-- Perhaps she hadfollowed the current of my mind; for it seemed to me an easy oneto track now, wilful as it had been once.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A current of air rushed up the tube, forcible enough to have extinguished a candle held at the orifice.
-- Unfortunately for Troy a current unknown to him existed outside, which, unimportant to craft of any burden, was awkward for a swimmer who might be taken in it unawares.
-- At that time he saw a bather carried along in the current outside the mouth of the cove, and guessed in an instant that there was but a poor chance for him unless he should be possessed of unusual muscular powers.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As for the rest, the current of life in Paris daily awaited them, and swept them away with it; so soon as they left the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve, they forgot the existence of the old man, their butt at dinner.
-- He did not know the rumor current about Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and flounder-ing desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reason-36 Frankensteining, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A hot swift current was running through her.
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