yet是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 还, 尚, 仍然; 已经conj. 然而ad. 甚至,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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet here they all unite.
-- But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him.
-- Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolising the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original the Tyre of this Carthage; the place where the first dead American whale was stranded.
-- Poor Lazarus there, chattering his teeth against the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters with his shiverings, he might plug up both ears with rags, and put a corn-cob into his mouth, and yet that would not keep out the tempestuous Euroclydon.
-- Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And yet he burst into an agony of childish grief, as the cottage-gate closed after him.
-- They walked on, for some time, through the most crowded and densely inhabited part of the town; and then, striking down a narrow street more dirty and miserable than any they had yet passed through, paused to look for the house which was the object of their search.
-- Sowerberry had not yet returned, and Oliver continued to kick, with undiminished vigour, at the cellar-door.
-- He saw the Jew with his half-closed eyes; heard his low whistling; and recognised the sound of the spoon grating against the saucepan's sides: and yet the self-same senses were mentally engaged, at the same time, in busy action with almost everybody he had ever known.
-- They were just emerging from a narrow court not far from the open square in Clerkenwell, which is yet called, by some strange perversion of terms, 'The Green': when the Dodger made a sudden stop; and, laying his finger on his lip, drew his companions back again, with the greatest caution and circumspection.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mary had heard herself mentioned to Miss Bingley as the most accomplished girl in the neighbourhood; and Cath-erine and Lydia had been fortunate enough never to be without partners, which was all that they had yet learnt to care for at a ball.
-- I was never more an-noyed!The insipidity, and yet the noise the nothingness, and yet the self-importance of all those people!What would I give to hear your strictures on them!'
-- 'All this she must possess,' added Darcy, 'and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the im-provement of her mind by extensive reading.'
-- When you told Mrs. Bennet this morning that if you ever resolved upon quitting Netherfield you should be gone in five minutes, you meant it to be a sort of panegyric, of compliment to yourself and yet what is there so very laudable in a pre-cipitance which must leave very necessary business undone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself or anyone else?'
-- She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man; and yet that he should look at her because he disliked her, was still more strange.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was yet another source of difference between us.
-- He stepped aside to the ledge where the vine leaves yet lay strewn about, collected two or three, and stood wiping his hands upon them, with his back to the light.
-- As he yet stood clasping the grate with both hands, an uproar broke upon his hearing; yells, shrieks, oaths, threats, execrations, all comprehended in it, though (as in a storm) nothing but a raging swell of sound distinctly heard.
-- And now, Mr Clennam, perhaps I may ask you whether you have yet come to a decision where to go next?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You see I've been abroad a good many years, and haven't been into company enough yet to know how you do things here.'
-- Poor Meg seldom complained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bitter toward everyone sometimes, for she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.
-- 'Once upon a time, there were four girls, who had enough to eat and drink and wear, a good many comforts and plea-sures, kind friends and parents who loved them dearly, and yet they were not contented.'
-- Yet it seemed a lonely, lifeless sort of house, for no chil-dren frolicked on the lawn, no motherly face ever smiled at the windows, and few people went in and out, except the old gentleman and his grandson.
-- Here a little hand slipped into his, and Beth looked up at him with a face full of gratitude, as she said, in her earnest yet timid way... 'Oh sir, they do care, very very much!'
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