spell是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 拼写,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He might perhaps have purchased his social peace by abandoning his investi-gations; but he apparently preferred the latter, as most men would who have once fallen under the overmastering spell of research.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Certain it is, the place still con-tinues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie.
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:
-- It's as though someone had cast a spell over him.
-- The spell was broken.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Drink of this cup, you'll find there's a spell in its every drop 'gainst the ills of mortality.
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:
-- 'Do you spell "creature" with a double "e"?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some laughed; some said, by way of complete excuse, that the post was virtually a sinecure, and any fool who could spell his name was good enough for it; some, and these the more solemn political oracles, said that Decimus did wisely to strengthen himself, and that the sole constitutional purpose of all places within the gift of Decimus, was, that Decimus should strengthen himself.
-- If she could be brought to become communicative, and to do what lay in her to break the spell of secrecy that enshrouded the house, he might shake off the paralysis of which every hour that passed over his head made him more acutely sensible.
-- Mr Chivery was on the Lock, and Young John was in the Lodge: either newly released from it, or waiting to take his own spell of duty.
-- 'Over and above which,' said Flora, 'I earnestly beg you as the dearest thing that ever was if you'll still excuse the familiarity from one who moves in very different circles to let Arthur understand that I don't know after all whether it wasn't all nonsense between us though pleasant at the time and trying too and certainly Mr F. did work a change and the spell being broken nothing could be expected to take place without weaving it afresh which various circumstances have combined to prevent of which perhaps not the least powerful was that it was not to be, I am not prepared to say that if it had been agreeable to Arthur and had brought itself about naturally in the first instance I should not have been very glad being of a lively disposition and moped at home where papa undoubtedly is the most aggravating of his sex and not improved since having been cut down by the hand of the Incendiary into something of which I never saw the counterpart in all my life but jealousy is not my character nor ill-will though many faults.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So they asked an old woman what spell they could use to make them happy, and she said, 'When you feel discontented, think over your blessings, and be grateful.''
-- Laurie did not see, for he was carefully skating along the shore, sounding the ice, for a warm spell had preceded the cold snap.
-- 'Exactly, for Amy keeps me pointing due west most of the time, with only an occasional whiffle round to the south, and I haven't had an easterly spell since I was married.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All these queer proceedings increased my uncomfortableness, and seeing him now exhibiting strong symptoms of concluding his business operations, and jumping into bed with me, I thought it was high time, now or never, before the light was put out, to break the spell in which I had so long been bound.
-- For what seemed ages piled on ages, I lay there, frozen with the most awful fears, not daring to drag away my hand; yet ever thinking that if I could but stir it one single inch, the horrid spell would be broken.
-- Spell oh! whew!this is worse than pulling after whales in a calm give us a whiff, Tash.
-- The next day was exceedingly still and sultry, and with nothing special to engage them, the Pequod's crew could hardly resist the spell of sleep induced by such a vacant sea.
-- Like household dogs they came snuffling round us, right up to our gunwales, and touching them; till it almost seemed that some spell had suddenly domesticated them.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By this the spell was broken.
-- One day, in the middle of the winter, the sharpest spell of the season set in.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever.
-- 'I bet you can't spell my name,' says I.
-- It ain't no slouch of a name to spell right off without study-ing.'
-- I set it down, private, because somebody might want ME to spell it next, and so I wanted to be handy with it and rat-tle it off like I was used to it.
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