august是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 八月,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:
-- The August of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two was come, and Monseigneur was by this time scattered far and wide.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The bright, cold August day, which had made Anna feel so hopeless, seemed to him keenly stimulating, and refreshed his face and neck that still tingled from the cold water.
-- At the end of August he heard that the Oblonskys had gone away to Moscow, from their servant who brought back the side-saddle.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You may drive through blizzard and August heat, and go down into the purple-shadowed vale of sorrow and wrestle with the ebon- cloaked Powers of Darkness for the lives of your patients, but that heroism is incomplete without Modern Progress, to be obtained by the use of a Bindledorf Tonsillectomy Outfit and the New Idea Panaceatic Cabinet, to be obtained on small payment down, rest on easiest terms known in history of medicine!
-- There are houses with chauffeurs and Bacardi cocktails, but on August evenings all save a few score burghers sit in their shirt- sleeves on front porches.
-- By this time it was six o'clock of a fine wide August morning, and as he ceased his swift work, as taut nerves slackened, he looked out of his lofty window and was conscious of the world below: bright roofs, jubilant towers, and a high-decked Sound steamer swaggering up the glossy river.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One Friday evening in August she walked a little way along the road and entered the village for the first time since the sombre event of the preceding Christmas.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 13Letter 4To Mrs. Saville, England August 5th, 17 So strange an accident has happened to us that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come into your posses-sion.
-- August 13th, 17 My affection for my guest increases every day.
-- August 19, 17 Yesterday the stranger said to me, 'You may easily perceive, Captain Walton, that I have suffered great and un-paralleled misfortunes.
-- But in giving an account of the progress of my intellect, I must not omit a circumstance which occurred in the begin- ning of the month of August of the same year.
-- August 26th, 17 You have read this strange and terrific story, Margaret; and do you not feel your blood congeal with horror, like that which even now curdles mine?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Dr. Meade says it will be here in late August or September," she said.
-- CHAPTER XX AS THE HOT noisy days of August were drawing to a close the bombardment abruptly ceased.
-- The last day of August came and with it convincing rumors that the fiercest fighting since the battle of Atlantawas taking place.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But as I was out of all fear of being ill-treated under the protection of so great and good an empress, the ornament of nature, the darling of the world, the delight of her subjects, the phoenix of the creation, so I hoped my late master's apprehensions would appear to be groundless; for I already found my spirits re-vive, by the influence of her most august presence.'
-- And that these two bodies made up the most august assembly in Europe; to whom, in conjunction with the prince, the whole legislature is committed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER 29 ON THE WATERS--A RAFT VOYAGE On the thirteenth of August we were up betimes.
-- Friday, August 14th.
-- CHAPTER 30 TERRIFIC SAURIAN COMBAT Saturday, August 15th.
-- Sunday, August 16th.
-- Monday, August 17th.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since.
-- William passed his hand across his eyes, and murmured with august satisfaction, 'Blessings on your attachment, my poor dear fellow!'
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