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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Woman had not yet altogether come into her own.
-- In those days conversation was still cultivated as an art; a neat repartee was more highly valued than the crackling of thorns under a pot; and the epigram, not yet a mechanical appliance by which the dull may achieve a semblance of wit, gave sprightliness to the small talk of the urbane.
-- He was a man of forty, not good-looking, and yet not ugly, for his features were rather good; but they were all a little larger than life-size, and the effect was ungainly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- An hour!Might not the balloon before that be emptied of all the fluid it yet retained?
-- His forces, united to those of Butler, had as yet been unsuccessful before Richmond, and nothing gave the prisoners any hope of a speedy deliverance.
-- asked the engineer quickly, and it was evident that this question was uttered without consideration, for he had not yet examined the stranger who addressed him.
-- It was not even necessary to lop the trees, for enormous quantities of dead wood were lying at their feet; but if fuel was not wanting, the means of transporting it was not yet found.
-- They looked to see if some portion of their balloon, to which a man might possibly cling, yet existed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- ' he cried with sudden querulousness, 'why, God knows that this one child is the thought and object of my life, and yet he never prospers me no, never!'
-- I remained standing on the spot where he had left me, unwilling to depart, and yet unknowing why I should loiter there.
-- Yet I lingered about, and could not tear myself away, thinking of all possible harm that might happen to the child of fires and robberies and even murder and feeling as if some evil must ensue if I turned my back upon the place.
-- These opinions being equally incontrovertible with those he had already pronounced, he went on to inform us that Jamaica rum, though unquestionably an agreeable spirit of great richness and flavour, had the drawback of remaining constantly present to the taste next day; and nobody being venturous enough to argue this point either, he increased in confidence and became yet more companionable and communicative.
-- But what added most to the grotesque expression of his face was a ghastly smile, which, appearing to be the mere result of habit and to have no connection with any mirthful or complacent feeling, constantly revealed the few discoloured fangs that were yet scattered in his mouth, and gave him the aspect of a panting dog.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her position was reflected even in her name, for she was not called by the gentle Katinka, nor yet by the disdainful Katka, but Katiousha, which stands sentimentally between the two.
-- He dressed himself in his brushed clothes which lay on the chair and went out, though not quite refreshed, yet clean and fragrant.
-- He did not wish to go into service, and yet he had luxurious habits of life which he thought he could not abandon.
-- He explained this feeling by the development of a fine aesthetic taste, and yet this consciousness caused him unpleasant sensations.
-- And yet he doubtless acknowledged in himself this superiority, and regarded the respect shown him as his due, and was offended when it was not forthcoming.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My general impression of the world I saw over their heads was a tangled waste of beautiful bushes and flowers, a long neglected and yet weedless garden.
-- All were clad in the same soft, and yet strong, silky material.
-- I saw mankind housed in splendid shelters, gloriously clothed, and as yet I had found them engaged in no toil.
-- Yet I felt tolerably sure of the avoidance.
-- Yet a certain feeling, you may understand, tethered me in a circle of a few miles round the point of my arrival.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'And yet I don't know,' the Gnat went on in a careless tone: 'only think how convenient it would be if you could manage to go home without it!For instance, if the governess wanted to call you to your lessons, she would call out "come here ," and there she would have to leave off, because there wouldn't be any name for her to call, and of course you wouldn't have to go, you know.'
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