demanding是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 对人要求严格的,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:
-- That head Mr. Attorney-General concluded by demanding of them, in the name of everything he could think of with a round turn in it, and on the faith of his solemn assevera-tion that he already considered the prisoner as good as dead and gone.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Levin gave him the bottle, and the same look of passionate hope with which he had taken the sacrament was now fastened on his brother, demanding from him the confirmation of the doctor's words that inhaling iodine worked wonders.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- he made himself agreeable by sitting on Martin's bed, looking derisively at his shabby baggage, and demanding the details of his parentage, religion, politics, and attitude toward the horrors of card- playing and dancing.
-- She had a genius for keeping out of his way, for not demanding to be noticed, so that, while he plunged into his books as he never had done in Clif's rustling, grunting, expectorating company, he had ever the warm, half-conscious feeling of her presence.
-- No sense taking a risk, with the blame farmers demanding all the money they can get for their wheat and cream, and then deliberately going to work and not paying the interest on their loans.
-- He came galloping at Martin, demanding that he be the first to display a pennant.
-- He noted how bored were most of the newspapermen by being galvanized into a new saving of the world once a fortnight, and how incomparably bored was the Man in the Street when the nineteenth pretty girl in twenty days had surged up demanding that he buy a tag to support an association of which he had never heard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The one greatoutrage of her life, demanding to be constantly avenged, was thepassage of a donkey over that immaculate spot.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How the trampers might have behaved, had the young ladies been more courageous, must be doubtful; but such an invitation for attack could not be resisted; and Harri-et was soon assailed by half a dozen children, headed by a stout woman and a great boy, all clamorous, and imper-tinent in look, though not absolutely in word. More and more frightened, she immediately promised them money, and taking out her purse, gave them a shilling, and begged them not to want more, or to use her ill. She was then able to walk, though but slowly, and was moving away but her terror and her purse were too tempting, and she was fol-lowed, or rather surrounded, by the whole gang, demanding more.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ellen, sensitive to the bonds ofkin, be they blood or marriage, wrote back reluctantly agreeing that she must stay but demanding Wade and Prissy besent home immediately.
-- Why had God invented children, she thought savagely as she turned her ankle cruelly on the dark road useless,crying nuisances they were, always demanding care, always in the way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That there was any Fancy in them demanding to be brought into healthy existence instead of struggling on in convulsions?
-- After putting his horse at Coketown through the storm, as if it were a leap, he waited up all night: from time to time ringing his bell with the greatest fury, charging the porter who kept watch with delinquency in withholding letters or messages that could not fail to have been entrusted to him, and demanding restitution on the spot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Throughout the remainder of the day, Bleeding Heart Yard was in consternation, as the grim Pancks cruised in it; haranguing the inhabitants on their backslidings in respect of payment, demanding his bond, breathing notices to quit and executions, running down defaulters, sending a swell of terror on before him, and leaving it in his wake.
-- Knots of people, impelled by a fatal attraction, lurked outside any house in which he was known to be, listening for fragments of his discourses to the inmates; and, when he was rumoured to be coming down the stairs, often could not disperse so quickly but that he would be prematurely in among them, demanding their own arrears, and rooting them to the spot.
-- Wildernesses of corner houses, with barbarous old porticoes and appurtenances; horrors that came into existence under some wrong-headed person in some wrong-headed time, still demanding the blind admiration of all ensuing generations and determined to do so until they tumbled down; frowned upon the twilight.
-- His chivalrous feeling towards all that belonged to her made him so very respectable, in spite of his small stature and his rather weak legs, and his very weak hair, and his poetical temperament, that a Goliath might have sat in his place demanding less consideration at Arthur's hands.
-- Then, too, here was Mrs General, got home from foreign parts, sending a Prune and a Prism by post every other day, demanding a new Testimonial by way of recommendation to some vacant appointment or other.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Meg, Beth, and Amy were sitting together, late in the afternoon, when Jo burst into the room, looking excited and demanding breathlessly, 'Has anyone taken my book?'
-- Then the eager spectators gathered round the count, demanding an explanation.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even when wearied nature seemed demanding repose he would not seek that repose in his hammock.
-- Time out of mind the piratical proas of the Malays, lurking among the low shaded coves and islets of Sumatra, have sallied out upon the vessels sailing through the straits, fiercely demanding tribute at the point of their spears.
-- But suddenly reined back by some counter thought, he hurried towards the helm, huskily demanding how the ship was heading.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was forever confronting his wife, demanding of her to change her attitude toward him before he worked her bodily harm.
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