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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'This is an exact inventory of what we found about the body of the man-mountain, who used us with great civility, and due respect to your majesty's commission.
-- This body con-sisted of three thousand foot, and a thousand horse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Body number one, said they must take everything on trust.
-- Body number two, said they must take everything on political economy.
-- Body number three, wrote leaden little books for them, showing how the good grown-up baby invariably got to the Savings-bank, and the bad grown-up baby invariably got transported.
-- Body number four, under dreary pretences of being droll (when it was very melancholy indeed), made the shallowest pretences of concealing pitfalls of knowledge, into which it was the duty of these babies to be smuggled and inveigled.
-- Then she sat swaying her body to and fro, and making gestures with her unnerved arm, which seemed intended as the accompaniment to a fit of laughter, though her face was stolid and drowsy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Long before the existence of volcanoes, it was composed of a solid body of massive trap rock lifted bodily and slowly out of the sea, by the action of the centrifugal force at work in the earth.
-- To give body and existence to such new sensations would have required the coinage of new words--and here my feeble brain found itself wholly at fault.
-- Moreover, the vivacity of the dense atmosphere reanimated my body by inflating my lungs with unaccustomed oxygen.
-- My body was subtilized, or rather became volatile, and commingled in a state of atomic vapor, with the prodigious clouds, which rushed forward like a mighty comet into infinite space!
-- Its whole body covered by a carapace or shell, and its neck, as flexible as that of a swan, rose more than thirty feet above the waves, a tower of animated flesh!
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:
-- It is curious what a subtle but unmistakable transmutation it makes, both in the body of men and women: the woman more blooming, more subtly rounded, her young angularities softened, and her expression either anxious or triumphant: the man much quieter, more inward, the very shapes of his shoulders and his buttocks less assertive, more hesitant.
-- It was as if her whole soul and body and sex had to rouse up and pass into theme stories of his.
-- And dimly she realized one of the great laws of the hu-man soul: that when the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, which does not kill the body, the soul seems to re-cover as the body recovers.
-- Not the stuff of beauty, not even the body of beauty, but a lambency, the warm, white flame of a single life, revealing itself in contours that one might touch: a body!
-- And she thought, as she had thought so often, what a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, na- ked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And if, after all, you were to come into this darkened room to look upon me lying dead, my body should bleed, if I could make it, when you came near me.'
-- But, to the last, the irresolute hand of old would remain in the pocket into which he had slipped the money during two or three turns about the yard, lest the transaction should be too conspicuous to the general body of collegians.
-- 'It is competent,' said Mr Barnacle, 'to any member of the Public,' mentioning that obscure body with reluctance, as his natural enemy, 'to memorialise the Circumlocution Department.
-- 'Well then,' said Doyce, with a sigh, 'as I know what such a metal will do at such a temperature, and such a body under such a pressure, so I may know (if I will only consider), how these great lords and gentlemen will certainly deal with such a matter as mine.
-- There was the girls and their mothers a working at their sewing, or their shoe-binding, or their trimming, or their waistcoat making, day and night and night and day, and not more than able to keep body and soul together after all often not so much.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On rushing in a body to the cellar, we discovered our beloved President prostrate upon the floor, having tripped and fallen while getting wood for domestic purposes.
-- Jo leaned down to kiss the tranquil face, and with that si-lent kiss, she dedicated herself soul and body to Beth.
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