worst是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. /ad. 最坏(的) , 最差(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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even when the lessons are done, the worst is yet to happen, in theshape of an appalling sum.
-- But the worst of it was, that Iknew I should be ashamed to eat anything, when an opportunityoffered, and that, after a rather light dinner, I should remainhungry all night- for I had left my cakes behind, at the hotel, in myhurry.
-- That's the worst of you.
-- 'It can hardly be necessaryfor me to confirm anything stated by my brother,' said MissMurdstone; 'but I beg to observe, that, of all the boys in the world,I believe this is the worst boy.'
-- He said, shaking hands with me,'Copperfield, you are a true friend; but when the worst comes tothe worst, no man is without a friend who is possessed of shavingmaterials.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Captain Weston, who had been considered, especially by the Churchills, as making such an amazing match, was proved to have much the worst of the bargain; for when his wife died, after a three years' marriage, he was rather a poorer man than at first, and with a child to maintain.
-- Miss Bates stood in the very worst predicament in the world for having much of the public favour; and she had no intellectual superiority to make atonement to herself, or frighten those who might hate her into outward respect.
-- I think her the very worst sort of companion that Emma could possibly have.
-- At Christmas ev-ery body invites their friends about them, and people think little of even the worst weather.
-- Chapter XVIThe hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable. It was a wretched business indeed! Such an overthrow of every thing she had been wishing for! Such a development of every thing most unwelcome! Such a blow for Harriet! that was the worst of all.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Probably, as with persons playing whist for love, the consciousness of a certain immunity under any circumstances from that worst possible ultimate, the having to pay, makes them unduly speculative.
-- The worst features of this arrangement were that, if he thought she ridiculed him, an apology would increase the offence by being disbelieved; and if he thought she wanted him to woo her, it would read like additional evidence of her forwardness.
-- This coolness may have owed its existence not so much to her fearlessness of expected danger as to her freedom from the suspicion of any; her worst anticipated discovery being that a horse might not be well bedded, the fowls not all in, or a door not closed.
-- In spite of his careful man脜聯uvering all this day, the very worst event that could in any way have happened in connection with the burial had happened now.
-- Oak may have had the best of intentions in withholding for as many days as possible the details of what had happened to Fanny; but had he known that Bathsheba's perceptions had already been exercised in the matter, he would have done nothing to lengthen the minutes of suspense she was now undergoing, when the certainty which must terminate it would be the worst fact suspected after all.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The hearth is always so clean and neat that it is evident that a fire is only kindled there on great occasions; the stone chimney-piece is adorned by a couple of vases filled with faded artificial flowers imprisoned under glass shades, on either side of a bluish marble clock in the very worst taste.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- During one of their walks a poor cot in the foldings of a vale attracted their notice as being singularly disconsolate, while the number of half-clothed children gathered about it spoke of penury in its worst shape.
-- On the third day my mother sickened; her fever was accompanied by the most alarming symptoms, and the looks of her medical attendants prognosticated the worst event.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even in his worst screaming spells, Melanie thoughthim adorable and said so, adding, "Oh, you precious darling!I just wish you were mine!"
-- And, worst of all, she had burned two blisters on her fingers helping Pittypat and Cookiemake layer cakes for raffling.
-- She lost her fearof his betraying her secret, but there always lurked in the back of her mind the disquieting memory that he had seenher at her worst and knew the truth about Ashley.
-- But heremained annoyingly unloverlike and, worst of all, seemed to see through all her maneuverings to bring him to hisknees.
-- Scrapes about women, several shootings, gunrunning to the revolutionists in Central America and, worst of all, professional gambling were included in his career,as Atlanta heard it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My construction even of their simple meaning was not very correct, for I read "wife of the Above" as a complimentary reference to my father's exaltation to a better world; and if any one of my deceased relations had been referred to as "Below," I have no doubt I should have formed the worst opinions of that member of the family.
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