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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, 'What should I do if I were not to die now?
-- 'Scolding as usual, Varia!It is the worst thing about her.
-- XIII HE prince was very nervous as he reached the outer door; Tbut he did his best to encourage himself with the reflec-tion that the worst thing that could happen to him would be that he would not be received, or, perhaps, received, then laughed at for coming.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Achilles and Ulysses hated him worst of all, for it was with them that he was most wont to wrangle; now, however, with a shrill squeaky voice he began heaping his abuse on Agamemnon.
-- I hate you worst of all the gods in Olympus, for you are ever fighting and making mischief.
-- Do not through delicacy reject the better man, and take the worst out of respect for his lineage, because he is of more royal blood.'
-- His horses were slowest of all, and he was the worst driver.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I'm the worst possible tool you could have," said Marvel.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The answer was a perfectly indescribable hiss, and Mow-gli kicked up his feet behind, clapped his hands together to applaud himself, and jumped on to Bagheera's back, where he sat sideways, drumming with his heels on the glossy skin and making the worst faces he could think of at Baloo.
-- Mowgli heard an an-swering bellow from the foot of the ravine, saw Shere Khan turn (the tiger knew if the worst came to the worst it was better to meet the bulls than the cows with their calves), and then Rama tripped, stumbled, and went on again over something soft, and, with the bulls at his heels, crashed full into the other herd, while the weaker buffaloes were lifted clean off their feet by the shock of the meeting.
-- It was sorcery, magic of the worst kind, thought Buldeo, and he wondered whether the amulet round his neck would protect him.
-- 'Happen!The worst that can happen.
-- That's the worst kind of cowardice,' said the troop-horse.
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:
-- Chapter 1 'Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared: The worst is wordly loss thou canst unfold: Say, is my kingdom lost?'
-- A sky-blue coat, with short and broad skirts and low cape, exposed a long, thin neck, and longer and thinner legs, to the worst animadver-sions of the evil-disposed.
-- For a moment he appeared to be conscious of having the worst of the argument, then, rallying again, he answered the objection of his antagonist in the best manner his limited information would allow: 'I am no scholar, and I care not who knows it; but, judg-ing from what I have seen, at deer chases and squirrel hunts, of the sparks below, I should think a rifle in the hands of their grandfathers was not so dangerous as a hickory bow and a good flint-head might be, if drawn with Indian judg-ment, and sent by an Indian eye.'
-- 'I am not a prejudiced man, nor one who vaunts himself on his natural privileges, though the worst enemy I have on earth, and he is an Iroquois, daren't deny that I am genuine white,' the scout replied, surveying, with secret satisfaction, the faded color of his bony and sinewy hand, 'and I am will-ing to own that my people have many ways, of which, as an honest man, I can't approve.
-- If you would save these tender blossoms from the fangs of the worst of serpents, gentle-man, you have neither time to lose nor resolution to throw away!'
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:
-- She said this not disparagingly, but affectionately rather, as though, by acknowledging the worst about him, she wished to protect him from the aspersions of her friends.
-- And the worst of it was that, though you hated Strickland, and the exhibition was horrible, it was impossible not to laugh.
-- You'll be spared at least the worst privations."
-- "I want her to know that if the worst comes to the worst she can count on me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Better to put things at the worst at first," replied the engineer, "and reserve the best for a surprise."
-- "Decidedly it is too bad," said the reporter; "and the worst of it is, there is no way of putting an end to it."
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