body是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 身体, 本体; 主体; 尸体; 物体; (一) 群, 批, 堆,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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Never should have thought she'd have growed up such a handsome body as she is."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I com-menced by inuring my body to hardship.
-- His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering.
-- When my guest was a little recovered I had great trou-ble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose res-toration evidently depended upon entire repose.
-- No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only.
-- Pursuing these reflections, I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had appar-ently devoted the body to corruption.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied themeverywhere.
-- In the beginning, the Troop had been recruited exclusively from the sons of planters, a gentleman's outfit, eachman supplying his own horse, arms, equipment, uniform and body servant.
-- Mammyfelt that she owned the O'Haras, body and soul, that their secrets were her secrets; and even a hint of a mystery wasenough to set her upon the trail as relentlessly as a bloodhound.
-- When Gerald was forty-three, so thickset of body and florid of face that he looked like a hunting squire out of asporting print, it came to him that Tara, dear though it was, and the County folk, with their open hearts and openhouses, were not enough.
-- Her gray organdie dress, with its cherry-colored satin sash, disguised with its billows and ruffles how childishlyundeveloped her body was, and the yellow hat with long cherry streamers made her creamy skin glow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At the same time, he hugged his shuddering body in both his arms,--clasping himself, as if to hold himself together,--and limped towards the low church wall.
-- What he did on those occasions was to turn up his cuffs, stick up his hair, and give us Mark Antony's oration over the body of Caesar.
-- Her chest had dropped, so that she stooped; and her voice had dropped, so that she spoke low, and with a dead lull upon her; altogether, she had the appearance of having dropped body and soul, within and without, under the weight of a crushing blow.
-- At last his father disinherited him; but he softened when he was dying, and left him well off, though not nearly so well off as Miss Havisham.--Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose."
-- The arrival of the body for interment (in an empty black box with the lid tumbling open), was the signal for a general joy, which was much enhanced by the discovery, among the bearers, of an individual obnoxious to identification.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then the willow-wren flew to the bear's hole and cried: 'Growler, you are to come to the nest to my children, and beg their pardon, or else every rib of your body shall be broken.'
-- They came therefore to a decision, betook themselves in a body to the king, and begged for their dismissal.
-- Then they tore of her dainty clothing, laid her on a table, and cut her beauti-ful body into pieces, and sprinkled salt upon it.
-- 'Then they tore off her dainty clothing, and cut her beau-tiful body into pieces and sprinkled salt upon it.'
-- She lived three days more, and then died happily, and when she was buried, the two white doves which had brought her food to the tower, and were angels of heaven, followed her body and seated them-selves on her grave.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was reckoned that above a hundred thousand inhabitants came out of the town upon the same errand; and, in spite of my guards, I believe there could not be fewer than ten thousand at several times, who mounted my body by the help of lad-ders.
-- The best- ex pedient I could think of, was to creep into my house, which I accordingly did; and shutting the gate after me, I went as far as the length of my chain would suffer, and discharged 25my body of that uneasy load.
-- His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic.
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