motion是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 运动, 动态; 手势, 眼色, 姿势; 提议; 动议,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall.
-- The cover was so carelessly adjust-ed that the slightest raising of it, the motion of a finger upon Scrooge's part, would have disclosed the face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The panting of the 10 A tale of two citieshorses communicated a tremulous motion to the coach, as if it were in a state of agitation.
-- The man who had left his saw sticking in the firewood he was cutting, set it in motion again; the women who had left on a door-step the little pot of hot ashes, at which she had been trying to soften the pain in her own starved fingers and toes, or in those of her child, returned to it; men with bare arms, matted locks, and cadaverous faces, who had emerged into the winter light from cellars, moved away, to descend again; and a gloom gathered on the scene that appeared more nat-40 A tale of two citiesural to it than sunshine.
-- The two spectators started forward, but she stayed them with a motion of her hand.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the boat was not fastened, and the motion which she occasioned, made it drift from the shore.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said Alexey Alexandrovitch, quietly making an effort over himself, and restraining the motion of his fingers.
-- A hawk flew high over a forest far away with slow sweep of its wings; another flew with exactly the same motion in the same direction and vanished.
-- This child's presence called up both in Vronsky and in Anna a feeling akin to the feeling of a sailor who sees by the compass that the direction in which he is swiftly moving is far from the right one, but that to arrest his motion is not in his power, that every instant is carrying him further and further away, and that to admit to himself his deviation from the right direction is the same as admitting his certain ruin.
-- It was only from feeling himself nearer the ground and from the peculiar smoothness of his motion that Vronsky knew how greatly the mare had quickened her pace.
-- Stremov, who was also a member of the Commission, and also stung to the quick, began defending himself, and altogether a stormy sitting followed; but Alexey Alexandrovitch triumphed, and his motion was carried, three new commissions were appointed, and the next day in a certain Petersburg circle nothing else was talked of but this sitting.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- An involuntary motion of surprise nearly escaped him, for the description in the passport was identical with that of the bank robber which he had received from Scotland Yard.
-- The Parsee made a motion to keep silence.
-- The massive walking-beam rose and fell above the deck; at one end a piston-rod worked up and down; and at the other was a connecting-rod which, in changing the rectilinear motion to a circular one, was directly connected with the shaft of the paddles.
-- Phileas Fogg was free!He walked to the detective, looked him steadily in the face, and with the only rapid motion he had ever made in his life, or which he ever would make, drew back his arms, and with the precision of a machine knocked Fix down.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Saturday evening they went solemnly to the motion pictures--one- and two-reel films with Cowboy Billy Anderson and a girl later to be famous as Mary Pickford--and solemnly they discussed the non- existent plots as they returned, unconscious of other people on the streets; but when they walked into the country on a Sunday (with four sandwiches and a bottle of ginger ale in his threadbare pockets), he chased her up-hill and down-gully, and they lost their solemnity in joyous childishness.
-- He was suddenly in conference with conductors of symphony orchestras, directors of art-schools, owners of itinerant Chautauquas, liberal governors, ex- clergymen who wrote tasty philosophy for newspaper syndicates, in fact all the proprietors of American intellectuality-- particularly including a millionaire named Minnigen who had recently been elevating the artistic standards of the motion pictures.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There has been a time since when I have wondered whether, ifthe life before her could have been revealed to me at a glance, andso revealed as that a child could fully comprehend it, and if herpreservation could have depended on a motion of my hand, Iought to have held it up to save her.
-- But the greatest effect in thesemiserable lessons is when my mother (thinking nobody isobserving her) tries to give me the cue by the motion of her lips.
-- asked Mr. Wickfield, with a motion of his handtowards the table.
-- As I think of them going up and down before those school-roomwindowsthe Doctor reading with his complacent smile, anoccasional flourish of the manuscript, or grave motion of his head;and Mr. Dick listening, enchained by interest, with his poor witscalmly wandering God knows where, upon the wings of hardwords- I think of it as one of the pleasantest things, in a quiet way,that I have ever seen.
-- If I objected to having my bed madeat five o'clock in the afternoonwhich I do still think anuncomfortable arrangement- one motion of her hand towards thesame nankeen region of wounded sensibility was enough to makeme falter an apology.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Instanc-es have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any de-scription, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made when the felici-ties of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.
-- A man who had been in motion since eight o'clock in the morning, and might now have been still, who had been long talking, and might have been silent, who had been in more than one crowd, and might have been alone! Such a man, to quit the tranquillity and independence of his own fireside, and on the evening of a cold sleety April day rush out again into the world! Could he by a touch of his finger have instantly taken back his wife, there would have been a motive; but his coming would probably prolong rather than break up the party.
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