rear是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 后部, 后面; vt. /vi. 培植, 饲养,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:
-- Bankruptcy must inevitably have come of this young Pagan, in Lombard-street, London, and also of a curtained alcove in the rear of the immortal boy, and also of a looking-glass let into the wall, and also of clerks not at all old, who danced in public on the slightest provo-cation.
-- What private solicitude could rear itself against the deluge of the Year One of Liberty the deluge rising from below, not falling from above, and with the windows of Heaven shut, not opened!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- People who can do nothing else ought to rear people while the rest work for their happiness and enlightenment.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, awkwardly enough, the guards now appeared at the rear of the temple, and there installed themselves, in readiness to prevent a surprise.
-- The guide led them to the rear of the glade, where they were able to observe the sleeping groups.
-- Phileas Fogg and his companions, mingling in the rear ranks of the crowd, followed; and in two minutes they reached the banks of the stream, and stopped fifty paces from the pyre, upon which still lay the rajah's corpse.
-- It was evidently a court-room, and a crowd of Europeans and natives already occupied the rear of the apartment.
-- Two state-rooms in the rear were, however, unoccupied those which had been engaged by Phileas Fogg.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By the rear platform, on a perilous packing box, Mayor Pugh held forth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have receiveda letter from Mr. Murdstone, in which he mentions that he woulddesire me to receive into an apartment in the rear of my house,which is at present unoccupied- and is, in short, to be let as a- inshort,' said the stranger, with a smile and in a burst of confidence,'as a bedroom- the young beginner whom I have now the pleasureto' and the stranger waved his hand, and settled his chin in hisshirt-collar.
-- Ieven walk, on two or three occasions, in a sickly, spoony manner,round and round the house after the family are gone to bed,wondering which is the eldest Miss Larkins's chamber (andpitching, I dare say now, on Mr. Larkins's instead); wishing that afire would burst out; that the assembled crowd would standappalled; that I, dashing through them with a ladder, might rear itagainst her win- dow, save her in my arms, go back for somethingshe had left behind, and perish in the flames.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Behind the luminous streams of this aurora militaris, she could see the hue of Troy's sword arm, spread in a scarlet haze over the space covered by its motions, like a twanged harpstring, and behind all Troy himself, mostly facing her; sometimes, to show the rear cuts, half turned away, his eye nevertheless always keenly measuring her breadth and outline, and his lips tightly closed in sustained effort.
-- At the rear of the large tent there were two small dressing-tents.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In spring time and summer, the Bermuda grass and clover on the lawn became emerald, so enticing an emeraldthat it presented an irresistible temptation to the flocks of turkeys and white geese that were supposed to roam only theregions in the rear of the house.
-- Scarlettknew that the fragrance carried on the faint breeze came from the grove of great oaks in the rear of the big house.
-- Scarlett sat on a high rosewood ottoman, under the shade of a huge oak in the rear of the house, her flounces andruffles billowing about her and two inches of green morocco slippers all that a lady could show and still remain alady peeping from beneath them.
-- By this time Scarlett was boiling, ready to rear like a horse at the touch of a strange rough hand on its bridle.
-- They could notbreak the gray lines by direct assault and so, under cover of night they marched through the mountain passes in asemicircle, hoping to come upon Johnston's rear and cut the railroad behind him at Resaca, fifteen miles below Dalton.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She answered in a low whisper and with caution: "I had been shut up in these rooms a long time (I don't know how long; you know what time the clocks keep here), when I told him that I wanted a little girl to rear and love, and save from my fate.
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:
-- There was no shoot-ing as yet: he had to rear the pheasants.
-- Yi, tha mun rear thy head!
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
-- Then the Captain knows that Jonah is a fugitive; but at the same time resolves to help a flight that paves its rear with gold.
-- But the third Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck, seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping all sorts of knowing winks in all sorts of directions, and kicking off his shoes, he strikes into a sharp but noiseless squall of a hornpipe right over the Grand Turk's head; and then, by a dexterous sleight, pitching his cap up into the mizentop for a shelf, he goes down rollicking so far at least as he remains visible from the deck, reversing all other processions, by bringing up the rear with music.
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