gratitude是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 感激, 感恩,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She told me with tears of gratitude how you had supported her; she expects much of you, and believes fervently in your future success...' 'Oh, this is unbearable!'
-- He looked at it as a case that might bring him in a lot of money, and he did not calculate badly; be-cause on the one hand he speculated on the generosity of the prince, and his gratitude to the late Mr. Pavlicheff, and on the other to his chivalrous ideas as to the obligations of honour and conscience.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If the latter, gratitude must close our mouths; but if the for-mer, both Cora and I shall have need to draw largely on that stock of hereditary courage which we boast, even before we are made to encounter the redoubtable Montcalm.'
-- exclaimed the younger sister, rising from the encircling arm of Cora, and casting herself with enthusiastic gratitude on the naked rock; 'to that Heaven who has spared the tears of a gray-headed father; has saved the lives of those I so much love.'
-- The medal* of Magua will no longer be of tin, but of beaten gold; his horn will run over with powder; dollars will be as plenty in his pouch as pebbles on the shore of Horican; and the deer will lick his hand, for they will know it to be vain to fly from the rifle he will carry!As for myself, I know not how to exceed the gratitude of the Scotchman, but I yes, I will ' * It has long been a practice with the whites to concili-ate the important men of the Indians by presenting medals, which are worn in the place of their own rude ornaments.
-- We shall not attempt to describe the gratitude to the Almighty Disposer of Events which glowed in the bosoms of the sisters, who were thus unexpectedly restored to life and to each other.
-- 'In truth, we have a little wonder why you should so rigidly absent yourself from a place where the gratitude of the daughters might receive the support of a parent's thanks.'
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:
-- He could not do enough to show his gratitude for the whole-hearted devotion with which she had accepted the burden he laid on her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- responded Herbert, whose pious heart was full of gratitude to the Author of all things.
-- Pencroft was delighted at the turn things had taken, and their imaginations soon gave to the river which furnished the settlers with drinking water and near which the balloon had thrown them, the name of the Mercy, in true gratitude to Providence.
-- "Well, Mr. Spilett," said Herbert, "this is a treasure which will secure you Pencroft's gratitude forever."
-- You must share your gratitude with Herb
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He would visit the old man, or even Richard Swiveller might visit him, and by affecting a deep concern in his behalf, and imploring him to settle in some worthy home, lead to the child's remembering him with gratitude and favour.
-- She was happy to show her gratitude to the kind schoolmaster by busying herself in the performance of such household duties as his little cottage stood in need of.
-- But the sad scene she had witnessed, was not without its lesson of content and gratitude; of content with the lot which left her health and freedom; and gratitude that she was spared to the one relative and friend she loved, and to live and move in a beautiful world, when so many young creatures as young and full of hope as she were stricken down and gathered to their graves.
-- "Codlin's my friend," she says, with a tear of gratitude a trickling down her little eye; "Codlin's my friend," she says "not Short.
-- Before they separated, the schoolmaster read some prayers aloud; and then, full of gratitude and happiness, they parted for the night.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had got to such a low estimate of her kind that I did not expect any gratitude from her.
-- And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I agree with you," said I; "and steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
-- The first words I spoke were words of gratitude and thankfulness to my two companions.
-- All my gratitude could not repay such devotion.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They hated their inferiors' humility or gratitude or awkwardness.
-- It made the blood stir in his veins, the subtle way she turned to him and infused her gratitude into his body.
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