pride是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 自豪; 自满; 引以自豪的东西v. 使自豪,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And sometimes, when her moods were so many and so contradictory of one another that I was puzzled what to say or do, Miss Havisham would embrace her with lavish fondness, murmuring something in her ear that sounded like "Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy!"
-- But it was very pleasant to see the pride with which he hoisted it up and made it fast; smiling as he did so, with a relish and not merely mechanically.
-- My thoughts were further distracted by the excessive pride of Mr. and Mrs. Hubble, who were surpassingly conceited and vainglorious in being members of so distinguished a procession.
-- Why should I loiter on my road, to compare the state of mind in which I had tried to rid myself of the stain of the prison before meeting her at the coach-office, with the state of mind in which I now reflected on the abyss between Estella in her pride and beauty, and the returned transport whom I harbored?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then she bitterly grieved for the pride and folly which had brought her so low.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On the 26th day of October we arrived at the metropolis, called in their language Lorbrulgrud, or Pride of the Uni-verse.
-- And thus he continued on, while my colour came and went several times, with indignation, to hear our noble country, the mistress of arts and arms, the scourge of France, the arbitress of Europe, the seat of virtue, piety, honour, and truth, the pride and envy of the world, so 129contemptuously treated.
-- he Luggnaggians are a polite and generous people; and Talthough they are not without some share of that pride which is peculiar to all Eastern countries, yet they show themselves courteous to strangers, especially such who are countenanced by the court.
-- Alliance by blood, or marriage, is a frequent cause of war between princes; and the nearer the kindred is, the greater their disposition to quarrel; poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had a particular pride in the phrase eminently practical, which was considered to have a special application to him.
-- His pride in having at any time of his life achieved such a great social distinction as to be a nuisance, an incumbrance, and a pest, was only to be satisfied by three sonorous repetitions of the boast.
-- There's no family pride about me, there's no imaginative sentimental humbug about me.
-- Mr. Bounderby stared with a bursting pride at Mr. Harthouse, as much as to say, 'I am the proprietor of this female, and she's worth your attention, I think.'
-- And he laid her down there, and saw the pride of his heart and the triumph of his system, lying, an insensible heap, at his feet.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Human instincts succumbed to scientific pride and exultation.
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:
-- Michaelis talked frankly about himself, quite frankly, without affectation, simply re-vealing his bitter, indifferent, stray-dog's soul, then showing a gleam of revengeful pride in his success.
-- And as he felt the frenzy of her achieving her own orgasmic satisfaction from his hard, erect passivity, he had a curious sense of pride and satis-faction.
-- It was cruel of her at that moment: for his pride had suffered bitterly.
-- And he realized as he went into her that this was the thing he had to do, to e into tender touch, without losing his pride or his dignity or his integrity as a man.
-- Any attempt to rouse his manhood and his pride would only make him worse: for his manhood was dead, temporarily if not finally.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If ever pride were innocent, it was innocent in Little Dorrit when she grew boastful of her father.
-- There was a glow of pride in her big child, overspreading her face, when it again met the eyes of the grave brown gentleman.
-- In short, I made an appeal to that laudable pride in your sister.'
-- (The opportunity being too favourable to be lost, Mrs Plornish displayed her great accomplishment by explaining with pardonable pride to Mr Baptist, 'E ope you leg well soon.')
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