tumult是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 骚动, 暴动, 吵闹,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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "One might expect to lose that much in such a tumult as this."
-- This scene ended, a score of fires were lit at various points of the "pah"; the smell of charred flesh polluted the air; and but for the fearful tumult of the festival, but for the cries that emanated from these flesh-sated throats, the captives might have heard the bones crunching under the teeth of the cannibals.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Although they had but that moment left the school be-hind them, they were now in the busy thoroughfares of a city, where shadowy passengers passed and repassed; where shadowy carts and coaches battle for the way, and all the strife and tumult of a real city were.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All around outside, too, it beat the walls with a deep, hoarse roar, from which, occasionally, some partial shouts of tumult broke and leaped into the air like spray.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This was in 1916, before the country had become wholesome and sterile, and the Brevoort was a tumult of French uniforms, caviar, Louis, dangling neckties, Nuits St. Georges, illustrators, Grand Marnier, British Intelligence officers, brokers, conversation, and Martell, V.O.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The howl androar, the rattling of the doors and windows, the rumbling in thechimneys, the apparent rocking of the very house that shelteredme, and the prodigious tumult of the sea, were more fearful than inthe morning.
-- Something within me, faintly answering to the storm without,tossed up the depths of my memory, and made a tumult in them.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness.
-- I saw him on the point of repeating his blow, when, overcome by pain and anguish, I quitted the cottage, and in the general tumult escaped un-perceived to my hovel.'
-- Its fair lakes reflect a blue and gentle sky, and when troubled by the winds, their tumult is but as the play of a lively infant when compared to the roarings of the giant ocean.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And Scarlett was in a tumult about Ashley.
-- Ellen's tired mouth smiled into the tumult as she addressed herself first to her husband, as a wife should.
-- A polite tumult broke out under the trees as the guests arose,shaking crumbs from laps.
-- Ladies, there will pass amongyou two of our gallant wounded, with baskets and " But the rest of his speech was lost in the storm and tumult ofclapping hands and cheering voices.
-- Above the tumult sounded the voice of the little Zouave, his Creole accent very obvious: "Eef I may twentydollars for Mees Maybelle Merriwether."
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nine heralds went crying about among them to stay their tumult and bid them listen to the kings, till at last they were got into their several places and ceased their clamour.
-- So long as the sun was still high in mid-heaven the weap-ons of either side were alike deadly, and the people fell; but when he went down towards the time when men loose their oxen, the Achaeans proved to be beyond all forecast stron-ger, so that they drew Cebriones out of range of the darts and tumult of the Trojans, and stripped the armour from his shoulders.
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:
-- And he roused a certain craving passion in her, with his little boy's nakedness and softness; she had to go on after he had -finished, in the wild tumult and heaving of her loins, while he heroically kept himself up, and present in her, with all his will and self-offering, till she brought about her own crisis, with weird little cries.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With this tumult in her mind, it is no subject for surprise that Miss Fanny came home one night in a state of agitation from a concert and ball at Mrs Merdle's house, and on her sister affectionately trying to soothe her, pushed that sister away from the toilette-table at which she sat angrily trying to cry, and declared with a heaving bosom that she detested everybody, and she wished she was dead.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ever since the blow, he had lain in his berth; but that morning, hearing the tumult on the deck, he had crept out, and thus far had watched the whole scene.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Turning down Sun Street and Crown Street, and crossing Finsbury square, Mr. Sikes struck, by way of Chiswell Street, into Barbican: thence into Long Lane, and so into Smithfield; from which latter place arose a tumult of discordant sounds that filled Oliver Twist with amazement.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished; that of Mrs. Bennet perhaps surpassing the rest; though, when the first tumult of joy was over, she began to declare that it was what she had expected all the while.
-- The tumult of her mind, was now painfully great.
-- The tumult of Elizabeth's mind was allayed by this con-versation.
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