their是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为pron. 他(她、 它) 们的,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some took sides with Phileas Fogg, but the large majority shook their heads and declared against him; it was absurd, impossible, they declared, that the tour of the world could be made, except theoretically and on paper, in this minimum of time, and with the existing means of travelling.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He could read Arabic, and he infuriated his fellow chemists by asserting that the Arabs had anticipated all their researches.
-- It was the tradition that faculty-members did not discuss their colleagues with students, but Max Gottlieb could not be regarded as anybody's colleague.
-- Men from the other departments go to their rooms to peer into their books.
-- He had heard older medics mutter of its horrors: of corpses hanging by hooks, like rows of ghastly fruit, in an abominable tank of brine in the dark basement; of Henry the janitor, who was said to haul the cadavers out of the brine, to inject red lead into their veins, and to scold them as he stuffed them on the dumb-waiter.
-- Martin found himself viewing "Billy," their cadaver--an undersized, blotchy old man with a horrible little red beard on his petrified, vealy face--as a machine, fascinating, complex, beautiful, but a machine.
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:
-- His parents were very hard- working and deeply religious people, but so poor that they lived with their five children in only two rooms.
-- The father and mother spent their evenings in reading aloud to their children, generally from books of a serious charac-ter.
-- At the time he had put no faith in those dreams and was only tantalising himself by their hideous but daring recklessness.
-- The furniture, all very old and of yellow wood, consisted of a sofa with a huge bent wooden back, an oval table in front of the sofa, a dressing-table with a looking-glass fixed on it between the windows, chairs along the walls and two or three half-penny prints in yellow frames, representing German damsels with birds in their hands that was all.
-- Their departure left the room quiet and rather empty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As the elms bent to one another, like giants who werewhispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell intoa violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their lateconfidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind, someweather-beaten ragged old rooks'-nests burdening their higherbranches, swung like wrecks upon a stormy sea.
-- 20CHAPTER III ObserveTHE first objects that assume a distinct presence before me, as Ilook far back, into the blank of my infancy, are my mother with herpretty hair and youthful shape, and Peggotty, with no shape at all,and eyes so dark that they seemed to darken their wholeneighbourhood in her face, and cheeks and arms so hard and redthat I wondered the birds didn't peck her in preference to apples.
-- Indeed, I think that most grown men who are remarkable in thisrespect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost thefaculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observesuch men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacityof being pleased, which are also an inheritance they havepreserved from their childhood.
-- Of the geese outsidethe side-gate who come waddling after me with their long necksstretched out when I go that way, I dream at night, as a manenvironed by wild beasts might dream of lions.
-- There is something of a doleful air about that room to me, forPeggotty has told me- I don't know when, but apparently ages ago-about my father's funeral, and the company having their blackcloaks put on.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A large debt of gratitude was owing here; but the intercourse of the last seven years, the equal footing and perfect unre-serve which had soon followed Isabella's marriage, on their being left to each other, was yet a dearer, tenderer recol-lection.
-- The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudi-narian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though ev-erywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.
-- Her sister, though comparatively but little removed by matrimony, being settled in London, only sixteen miles off, was much beyond her daily reach; and many a long October 6 Emmaand November evening must be struggled through at Hart-field, before Christmas brought the next visit from Isabella and her husband, and their little children, to fill the house, and give her pleasant society again.
-- He lived about a mile from Highbury, was a frequent visitor, and always welcome, and at this time more welcome than usual, as coming directly from their mutual connexions in London.
-- Every body was punctual, every body in their best looks: not a tear, and hardly a long face to be seen.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The series of novels I projected being mainly of the kind called local, they seemed to require a territorial definition of some sort to lend unity to their scene.
-- But there is a way some men have, rural and urban alike, for which the mind is more responsible than flesh and sinew: it is a way of curtailing their dimensions by their manner of showing them.
-- The girl on the summit of the load sat motionless, surrounded by tables and chairs with their legs upwards, backed by an oak settle, and ornamented in front by pots of geraniums, myrtles, and cactuses, together with a caged canary all probably from the windows of the house just vacated.
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