genuine是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 真正的, 名副其实的; 真诚的,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Well, you know, Edward, that to please me you planned a pleasure trip; but what could give us such genuine pleasure, or be so useful, as to save those unfortunate fellows, cast off by their country?"
-- "Yes, and to be grown up, my child, to venerate him," replied Glenarvan, deeply touched by the boy's genuine affection.
-- But the child's genuine religious fervor won him over completely.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He would suddenly remember that he was 'a father,' would be reconciled with his wife, and shed genuine tears.
-- he added, bursting into a fit of genuine laughter.
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:
-- '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.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was color, light, and life in the boy's face now, vivacity in his manner, and genuine merri-ment in his laugh.
-- Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe, so I will leave it to the imagi-nation of my readers, merely saying that the house was full of genuine happiness, and that Meg's tender hope was real-ized, for when Beth woke from that long, healing sleep, the first objects on which her eyes fell were the little rose and Mother's face.
-- If rank and money come with love and virtue, also, I should accept them gratefully, and enjoy your good fortune, but I know, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be had in a plain little house, where the daily bread is earned, and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures.
-- 'My lady,' as her friends called her, sincerely desired to be a genuine lady, and was so at heart, but had yet to learn that money cannot buy refinement of nature, that rank does not always confer nobility, and that true breeding makes itself felt in spite of external drawbacks.
-- Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I do not wish to seem inelegant, but this unsightly whale looks much like an amputated sow; and, as for the narwhale, one glimpse at it is enough to amaze one, that in this nineteenth century such a hippogriff could be palmed for genuine upon any intelligent public of schoolboys.
-- Here be it known, that though these wild fishermen do not, as a general thing, and according to the great military maxim, make the enemy defray the current expenses of the war (at least before realizing the proceeds of the voyage), yet now and then you find some of these Nantucketers who have a genuine relish for that particular part of the Sperm Whale designated by Stubb; comprising the tapering extremity of the body.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This is the port wine, ma'am, that the board ordered for the infirmary; real, fresh, genuine port wine; only out of the cask this forenoon; clear as a bell, and no sediment!'
-- He opened the closet, counted the teaspoons, weighed the sugar-tongs, closely inspected a silver milk-pot to ascertain that it was of the genuine metal, and, having satisfied his curiosity on these points, put on his cocked hat corner-wise, and danced with much gravity four distinct times round the table.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Collins received and returned these felici-tations with equal pleasure, and then proceeded to relate the particulars of their interview, with the result of which he trusted he had every reason to be satisfied, since the re-fusal which his cousin had steadfastly given him would naturally flow from her bashful modesty and the genuine delicacy of her character.
-- Lady Catherine was extremely indignant on the mar-riage of her nephew; and as she gave way to all the genuine frankness of her character in her reply to the letter which announced its arrangement, she sent him language so very abusive, especially of Elizabeth, that for some time all intercourse was at an end.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "We may treat it as a joke," said he, at last, recovering from the affected laugh which had considerably lengthened out the genuine gaiety of the moment "but, upon my soul, it is a most serious business.
-- Their gentleness, their genuine attention to other people, and their manly unstudied simplicity is much more accordant with her real disposition, than the liveliness often artificial, and often ill-timed of the other.
-- On the contrary, with a mind and body alike strengthened by rest, she looked and spoke with more genuine spirit, anticipating the pleasure of Margaret's return, and talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wish.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- genuine sympathy filling his mind for the time.
-- The offer was genuine enough, but it was a question with Hurstwood whether a third interest in that locality could be made to yield one hundred and fifty dollars a month, which he figured he must have in order to meet the ordinary family expenses and be comfortable.
-- Carrie heard this with genuine sorrow.
-- At first the general idea was that she was temporarily irritated, that the look was genuine and not fun at all.
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