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《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The worst of it was that that bullying old Pumblechook, preyed upon by a devouring curiosity to be informed of all I had seen and heard, came gaping over in his chaise-cart at tea-time, to have the details divulged to him.
-- And I couldn't be a match for the rogues, without being a match for you, who are the blackest-looking and the worst rogue between this and France.
-- Wopsle, too, took pains to present me in the worst light.
-- So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Though he made the best of his bad luck, he did not like his quarters at all; and the worst of it was, that more and more hay was always coming down, and the space left for him became smaller and smaller.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the remembrance of what I had felt, which probably might not be the worst they could do, and the promise of honour I made them for so I inter-preted my submissive behaviour soon drove out these imaginations.
-- He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting 'it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, mas-sacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, 163madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.'
-- I told him, 'that a first or chief minister of state, who was the person I intended to describe, was the creature wholly exempt from joy and grief, love and hatred, pity and anger; at least, makes use of no other passions, but a violent de-sire of wealth, power, and titles; that he applies his words to all uses, except to the indication of his mind; that he never tells a truth but with an intent that you should take it for a lie; nor a lie, but with a design that you should take it for a truth; that those he speaks worst of behind their backs are in the surest way of preferment; and whenever he begins to praise you to others, or to yourself, you are from that day 324 Gulliver's Travelsforlorn.
-- The worst mark you can receive is a promise, espe-cially when it is confirmed with an oath; after which, every wise man retires, and gives over all hopes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'My mother left me to my grandmother,' said Bounderby; 'and, according to the best of my remembrance, my grandmother was the wickedest and the worst old woman that ever lived.
-- I call her probably the very worst woman that ever lived in the world, except my drunken grandmother.
-- 'And the worst of all is, that although my poor father wished me so much to learn, and although I am so anxious to learn, because he wished me to, I am afraid I don't like it.'
-- are not bonded together for better for worst so fast, but that they can be set free fro' their misfortnet marriages, an' marry ower agen.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Simply to take a journey through a curious country, to climb a remarkable mountain, and if the worst comes to the worst, to descend into the crater of an extinct volcano."
-- The room devoted to strangers appeared to me to be by far the worst in the presbytery; it was narrow, dirty and offensive.
-- The worst part of the matter was that, in what is called the transition rocks, it was hardly to be expected we should meet with water!
-- If the worst had come to the worst, we could have compelled him to return to the summit of Sneffels.
-- My worst fears were realized.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She had more respect for Michaelis, on whose name they all poured such wither-ing contempt, as a little mongrel arriviste, and uneducated bounder of the worst sort.
-- The worst of it was, Clifford tended to become vague, ab-sent, and to fall into fits of vacant depression.
-- 'And your nasty, sterile want of common sympathy is in the worst taste imaginable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We have done all that we know the worst of it; we have got to the bottom, we can't fall, and what have we found?
-- 'Ah!But that's not the worst of it.'
-- 'Not the worst of it?'
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