conclude是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 结束, 终止; 断定, 下结论; 缔结, 议定,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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After standing a moment in silence, he said: "From your words I may consequently conclude that a divorce may be obtained?
-- As they were going out of the drawing room to conclude the argument, Koznishev said, smiling: "So, then, for the Russification of our foreign populations there is but one method--to bring up as many children as one can.
-- If the salary is fixed without any regard for that law, as, for instance, when I see two engineers leaving college together, both equally well trained and efficient, and one getting forty thousand while the other is satisfied with two; or when I see lawyers and hussars, having no special qualifications, appointed directors of banking companies with immense salaries, I conclude that the salary is not fixed in accordance with the law of supply and demand, but simply through personal interest.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For, after all, a man who began by stealing fifty-five thousand pounds might end by stealing a vessel; and Fix was not unnaturally inclined to conclude that the Henrietta under Fogg's command, was not going to Liverpool at all, but to some part of the world where the robber, turned into a pirate, would quietly put himself in safety.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 520CHAPTER XXXIXWickfield and HeepMY aunt, beginning, I imagine, to be made seriouslyuncomfortable by my prolonged dejection, made a pretence ofbeing anxious that I should go to Dover to see that all was workingwell at the cottage, which was let; and to conclude an agreement,with the same tenant, for a longer term of occupation.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'And if the Dixons should absolutely deny all knowledge of it we must conclude it to come from the Campbells.'
-- 542 EmmaNow, my dear madam, I will release you; but I could not conclude before.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Empty-headed people who babble about their own affairs because they have nothing else to occupy them, naturally conclude that if people say nothing of their doings it is because their doings will not bear being talked about; so the highly respectable merchant became a scoundrel, and the late beau was an old rogue.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What became of my companions in the boat, as well as of those who escaped on the rock, or were left in the vessel, I cannot tell; but conclude they were all lost.
-- But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be 164 Gulliver's Travelsthe most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.'
-- In the mean time, I here conclude the sec-ond part of my unfortunate voyages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I am much obliged to you,' said Gowan, to conclude the subject.
-- As it seemed reasonable to conclude that a man who had never been buried could not be unburied, the diggers gave him up when their task was done, and did not dig down for him into the depths of the earth.
-- Because it is only reasonable to conclude that he would deposit them somewhere where they would be safe from people over in England, and where they would yet be accessible to himself, don't you see?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I also observe that she does not fret much nor look in the glass, and has not even mentioned a very pretty ring which she wears, so I conclude that she has learned to think of other people more and of herself less, and has decided to try and mold her character as carefully as she molds her lit-tle clay figures.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With anxious grapnels I had sounded my pocket, and only brought up a few pieces of silver, So, wherever you go, Ishmael, said I to myself, as I stood in the middle of a dreary street shouldering my bag, and comparing the gloom towards the north with the darkness towards the south wherever in your wisdom you may conclude to lodge for the night, my dear Ishmael, be sure to inquire the price, and don't be too particular.
-- So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have "broken his digester."
-- Though the gregarious sperm whales have their regular seasons for particular grounds, yet in general you cannot conclude that the herds which haunted such and such a latitude or longitude this year, say, will turn out to be identically the same with those that were found there the preceding season; though there are peculiar and unquestionable instances where the contrary of this has proved true.
-- For all these reasons, then, any way you may look at it, you must needs conclude that the great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last.
-- I should like to conclude the chapter with the above appeal, but cannot, owing to my anxiety to repel a charge often made against whalemen, and which, in the estimation of some already biased minds, might be considered as indirectly substantiated by what has been said of the Frenchman's two whales.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females.'
-- They were forced to conclude that he had no pleasing intelli- gence to send; but even of THAT they would have been glad to be certain.
-- If, as I conclude will be the case, you send me full powers to act in your name throughout the whole of this business, I will immediately give directions to Haggerston for preparing a proper settlement.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- From this moment I began to conclude in my mind that it was possible for me to be more happy in this forsaken, solitary condition than it was probable I should ever have been in any other particular state in the world; and with this thought I was going to give thanks to God for bring-ing me to this place.
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