sense是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 感官; 感觉; 判断力; 意义v. 觉得, 意识到,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I remember myself as a gaunt black figure, going along the slippery, shiny pavement, and the strange sense of detachment I felt from the squalid respectability, the sordid commercialism of the place.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I saw nothing, and nevertheless my sense of another pres-ence grew steadily.
-- The morning breeze blew very pleasantly through the unglazed window, and that and the food contributed to the sense of animal comfort which I experienced.
-- I threatened him, told him the inhu-manity of such a proceeding, aroused his sense of shame, and came home resolved to do better before I took my work back to England.
-- They only sicken me with a sense of failure.
-- It is a curious thing, by the bye, for which I am quite unable to account, that these weird creatures the females, I mean had in the earlier days of my stay an instinctive sense of their own repulsive clumsiness, and displayed in consequence a more than human regard for the decency and decorum of extensive costume.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'The fool has had no more sense than to jump at a wood-cutter's campfire, and has burned his feet,' said Father Wolf with a grunt.
-- Darzee, if you have a grain of sense you will fly off to the stables and pretend that your wing is broken, and let Nagaina chase you away to this bush.
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:
-- A general movement among their conductors, however, soon recalled them from a contem-plation of the wild charms that night had assisted to lend the place to a painful sense of their real peril.
-- He ate and drank with an appetite that no sense of danger could disturb, but his vigi-lance seemed never to desert him.
-- It even prevailed over the miserable travesty of the song of Da-vid which the singer had selected from a volume of similar effusions, and caused the sense to be forgotten in the insin-uating harmony of the sounds.
-- Next followed David, who was gradually coming to a true sense of his condition, as the effects of the wound became less and less apparent.
-- cried the inveterate forester, whose prejudices contributed so largely to veil his natural sense of justice in all matters which concerned the Mingoes; 'a lying and deceitful varlet as he is.
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:
-- It gave me an intimate sense of being a member of some mystic brotherhood.
-- Not only her face, but her whole body, gave a sense of alacrity.
-- I do not know why I had an inkling that it would appeal to Strickland's sense of humour to bring a furious stockbroker over to Paris on a fool's errand to an ill-famed house in a mean street.
-- He did not seem to care much about the Paris he was now seeing for the first time (I did not count the visit with his wife), and he accepted sights which must have been strange to him without any sense of astonishment.
-- I wondered if there was anything I could say that would ease the sense of bitter humiliation which at present tormented Mrs. Strickland.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It must be said, however, that the settlers were men" in the complete and higher sense of the word.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nor did the striking of the clocks, hour after hour, appear to inspire him with any sense of drowsiness or any natural desire to go to rest, but rather to increase his wakefulness, which he showed, at every such indication of the progress of the night, by a suppressed cackling in his throat, and a motion of his shoulders, like one who laughs heartily but the same time slyly and by stealth.
-- It was in these apartments that Mr Swiveller made use of the expressions above recorded for the consolation and encouragement of his desponding friend; and it may not be uninteresting or improper to remark that even these brief observations partook in a double sense of the figurative and poetical character of Mr Swiveller's mind, as the rosy wine was in fact represented by one glass of cold gin-and-water, which was replenished as occasion required from a bottle and jug upon the table, and was passed from one to another, in a scarcity of tumblers which, as Mr Swiveller's was a bachelor's establishment, may be acknowledged without a blush.
-- Besides that it was very difficult to impart to any person not intimately acquainted with the life she led, an adequate sense of its gloom and loneliness, a constant fear of in some way committing or injuring the old man to whom she was so tenderly attached, had restrained her, even in the midst of her heart's overflowing, and made her timid of allusion to the main cause of her anxiety and distress.
-- He was patient, and quiet; often sat brooding, but not despondently, for a long space; was easily amused, even by a sun-beam on the wall or ceiling; made no complaint that the days were long, or the nights tedious; and appeared indeed to have lost all count of time, and every sense of care or weariness.
-- 'Short,' said Mr Codlin, who with his head upon his hands, and his elbows on his knees, had been shaking himself impatiently from side to side up to this point and occasionally stamping on the ground, but who now looked up with eager eyes; 'it's possible that there may be uncommon good sense in what you've said.
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