stupid是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 愚蠢的, 迟钝的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Dear me, Annie, how illegibly your cousin Maldonwrites, and how stupid I am!
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Emma guessed him to be the drudge of some attorney, and too stupid to rise.
-- It might be a very indifferent piece of wit, but Emma found a great deal to laugh at and enjoy in it and so did Frank and Harriet. It did not seem to touch the rest of the party equally; some looked very stupid about it, and Mr. Knight-ley gravely said, 'This explains the sort of clever thing that is wanted, and Mr. Weston has done very well for himself; but he must have knocked up every body else.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "What fun it would be to send it to the stupid old Boldwood, and how he would wonder!"
-- "To come to me, and not go and get them out directly!Oh, the stupid numskulls!"
-- When she alludes to the possibility of marrying again, you conclude ""She never do allude to it, sir," said Liddy, thinking how very stupid Mr. Boldwood was getting.
-- Poor Boldwood had no more skill in finesse than a battering-ram, and he was uneasy with a sense of having made himself to appear stupid and, what was worse, mean.
-- "Who have I the honour O how stupid of me, not to know you, mistress!"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Moreover, the widow saw favorable indications of character in the well-developed calves of his legs and in his square-shaped nose, indications still further borne out by the worthy man's full-moon countenance and look of stupid good-nature.
-- "It is all that stupid Christophe's fault.
-- He is a simpleton, stupid enough to ruin himself by running after----" "There he is!"
-- He had never looked more stupid nor more taken up with his own thoughts than he did at that moment.
-- In all other respects you see he is a stupid animal; but get him on that subject, and his eyes sparkle like diamonds.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She's a sly, stupid creature," Scarlett rejoined calmly, unimpressed by his uproar.
-- She had sharp, knowingeyes that missed nothing and a studiedly stupid look on her face.
-- The house servants shuffled and rustled in the hall to kneel by the doorway, Mammy groaning aloud as she sankdown, Pork straight as a ramrod, Rosa and Teena, the maids, graceful in their spreading bright calicoes, Cookie gauntand yellow beneath her snowy head rag, and Jack, stupid with sleep, as far away from Mammy's pinching fingers aspossible.
-- And, of course, herbrother called him out, and Mr. Butler said he'd rather be shot than marry a stupid fool.
-- "Why don't you say it, you coward!You're afraid to marry me!You'd rather live with that stupid little fool whocan't open her mouth except to say 'Yes' or 'No' and raise a passel of mealy-mouthed brats just like her!Why " "You must not say these things about Melanie!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The two ghastly casts on the shelf were not far from him, and their expression was as if they were making a stupid apoplectic attempt to attend to the conversation.
-- A deficient, ill-tempered, lowering, stupid fellow."
-- As he ascended the last stair or two, and the light of my lamp included us both, I saw, with a stupid kind of amazement, that he was holding out both his hands to me.
-- "Such a mean brute, such a stupid brute!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That stupid horse, with his heavy hoofs, has been treading down my people without mercy!'
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