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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then the son sat down on the fox's tail, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.
-- Then the fox stretched out his tail, and so away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled again.
-- But the people said 'No,' unless he would bestow all his money upon the rascals and buy their liberty.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I desired you would let me know, by a letter, when party and faction were extinguished; judges learned and upright; pleaders honest and modest, with some tincture of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books; the young nobility's education entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female Yahoos abounding in virtue, honour, truth, and good sense; courts and levees of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; wit, merit, and learning rewarded; all disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
-- 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.
-- But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new- fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remem-ber upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.
-- Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of Lilliput, Brobdingrag (for so the word should have been spelt, and not erroneously Brobdingnag), and Laputa, I have never yet heard of any Yahoo so presumptuous as to dispute their be-ing, or the facts I have related concerning them; because the truth immediately strikes every reader with convic-tion.
-- And is there less probability in my account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many thousands even in this country, who only differ from their brother brutes in Houyhnhnmland, be-cause they use a sort of jabber, and do not go naked?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.
-- His cold eyes would hardly have been eyes, but for the short ends of lashes which, by bringing them into immediate contrast with something paler than themselves, expressed their form.
-- He knew all about all the Water Sheds of all the world (whatever they are), and all the histories of all the peoples, and all the names of all the rivers and mountains, and all the productions, manners, and customs of all the countries, and all their boundaries and bearings on the two and thirty points of the compass.
-- They had been lectured at, from their tenderest years; coursed, like little hares.
-- Iron clamps and girders, fire-proof from top to bottom; mechanical lifts for the housemaids, with all their brushes and brooms; everything that heart could desire.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My uncle Hardwigg was once known to classify six hundred different geological specimens by their weight, hardness, fusibility, sound, taste, and smell.
-- Their costume consists of a coarse capote of black wool, known in Scandinavian countries as the "vadmel," a broad-brimmed hat, trousers of red serge, and a piece of leather tied with strings for a shoe--a coarse kind of moccasin.
-- When unmarried they wear a little brown knitted cap over a crown of plaited hair; but when married, they cover their heads with a colored handkerchief, over which they tie a white scarf.
-- "Well, sir, foreigners have their own libraries, and our first consideration is, that our humbler classes should be highly educated.
-- Our two horses with the luggage followed of their own accord, without requiring whip or spur.
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:
-- It was their natural atmosphere.
-- Both Hilda and Constance had had their tentative love-affairs by the time they were eighteen.
-- Both sisters had had their love experience by the time the war came, and they were hurried home.
-- When the girls came home for the summer holidays of 1913, when Hilda was twenty and Connie eighteen, their father could see plainly that they had had the love experi-ence.
-- So the girls were 'free', and went back to Dresden, and their music, and the university and the young men.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The only things to be seen not fixedly staring and glaring were the vines drooping under their load of grapes.
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