double是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 两倍adj. 两倍的, 双重的vt. 使加倍vi. 加倍,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:
-- 115 Confused by the emotion of the day, and feeling his be-ing there with this Double of coarse deportment, to be like a dream, Charles Darnay was at a loss how to answer; finally, answered not at all.
-- Sydney had been working double tides that night, and the night before, and the night before that, and a good many nights in succession, making a grand clearance among Mr. Stryver's papers before the setting in of the long vacation.
-- 'I am going,' said Mr. Stryver, leaning his arms confi-dentially on the desk: whereupon, although it was a large double one, there appeared to be not half desk enough for him: 'I am going to make an offer of myself in marriage to your agreeable little friend, Miss Manette, Mr.
-- Deep ditches, double drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight great towers, cannon, muskets, fire and smoke.
-- At the instant when Darnay saw a rush in the eyes of the crowd, which another instant would have brought upon him, the postmaster turned his horse into the yard, the escort rode in close upon his horse's flanks, and the post-master shut and barred the crazy double gates.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In his right pocket he had his letter of credit, in the left, his passport, and in a small leathern purse some double louis d'or, carefully sewn up in the bo-som of his waistcoat.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter 3 When he was dressed, Stepan Arkadyevitch sprinkled some scent on himself, pulled down his shirt-cuffs, distributed into his pockets his cigarettes, pocketbook, matches, and watch with its double chain and seals, and shaking out his handkerchief, feeling himself clean, fragrant, healthy, and physically at ease, in spite of his unhappiness, he walked with a slight swing on each leg into the dining-room, where coffee was already waiting for him, and beside the coffee, letters and papers from the office.
-- He went back himself to a double birch tree on the other side, and leaning his gun on the fork of a dead lower branch, he took off his full overcoat, fastened his belt again, and worked his arms to see if they were free.
-- Getting his right foot in the stirrup, he smoothed the double reins, as he always did, between his fingers, and Cord let go.
-- She felt as though everything were beginning to be double in her soul, just as objects sometimes appear double to over-tired eyes.
-- He was attired as though for a wedding, from his cravat to his double watch-chain and varnished boots.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The captain as often as possible put up his sails, and under the double action of steam and sail the vessel made rapid progress along the coasts of Anam and Cochin China.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Martin had confessed his double engagement; he had explained that Leora was unquestionably the most gracious young woman on earth; but as he had previously used up all of his laudatory adjectives and all of Clif's patience on the subject of Madeline, Clif failed to listen, and prepared to dislike Leora as another siren of morality.
-- He gave up the double room at the front of his boarding-house for a hall-room at the rear, and in that narrow den he sat and mourned in a desolation of loneliness.
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 cautiously moved the cloak and saw, sitting on a chair in the corner, the old woman bent double so that he couldn't see her face; but it was she.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was double my mother's age when he married, and of but adelicate constitution.
-- Was it a double tooth, hey?
-- Among them I remember a double set ofpigs' trotters, a huge pin-cushion, half a bushel or so of apples, apair of jet ear- rings, some Spanish onions, a box of dominoes, acanary bird and cage, and a leg of pickled pork.
-- Thatold, double look was on me for a moment; and then his eyedarkened with a frown, as it turned, in its aversion, elsewhere.
-- Mr. Larkins (a gruff old gentleman with a double chin, andone of his eyes immoveable in his head) is fraught with interest tome.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He began to sus-pect him of some double dealing in his pursuit of Emma.
-- Disingenuousness and double dealing seemed to meet him at every turn.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The blaze, enlarging in a double ratio by his approach and its own increase, showed him as he drew nearer the outlines of ricks beside it, lighted up to great distinctness.
-- Fray's forehead was wrinkled both perpendicularly and crosswise, after the pattern of a portcullis, expressive of a double despair.
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