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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 329THE STORY OF THE YOUTH WHO WENT FORTH TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS certain father had two sons, the elder of who was smart A and sensible, and could do everything, but the younger was stupid and could neither learn nor understand any-thing, and when people saw him they said: 'There's a fellow who will give his father some trouble!'
-- Those fellows up there did not open their mouths, and were so stupid that they let the few old rags which they had on their bodies get burnt.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was univer-sally reckoned the most ignorant and stupid person among them.
-- In answer to which I assured his honour, 'that in all points out of their own trade, they were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning, and equally 317disposed to pervert the general reason of mankind in every other subject of discourse as in that of their own profes-sion.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I am as obstinate as one, I am more stupid than one, I get as much pleasure as one, and I should like to kick like one.'
-- 'Except that it is a fire,' said Tom, 'it looks to me as stupid and blank as everything else looks.
-- 'You don't know,' said Sissy, half crying, 'what a stupid girl I am.
-- After an impatient oath or two, and some stupid clawing of herself with the hand not necessary to her support, she got her hair away from her eyes sufficiently to obtain a sight of him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But try as I might, nothing could keep me from thinking alternately of the stupid manuscript and of the pretty Gretchen.
-- "No, you stupid fellow!but we have reached the bottom of the well."
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:
-- As if she would dream of it!And as if he could possibly be so impor-tant, he and his stupid presence.
-- I think all these tubes and corrugated vibrations are stupid enough for anything, and pretty sen-timental.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Make her pay for it, you stupid child; and do your family some credit with the money!'
-- (again very much in the tone of You stupid little creature) 'how can you ask?
-- I loved that stupid mite in a passionate way that she could no more deserve than I can remember without feeling ashamed of, though I was but a child.
-- Still, with an unshaken confidence that the English tongue was somehow the mother tongue of the whole world, only the people were too stupid to know it, Mr Meagles harangued innkeepers in the most voluble manner, entered into loud explanations of the most complicated sort, and utterly renounced replies in the native language of the respondents, on the ground that they were 'all bosh.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That stupid high heel turned and gave me a sad wrench.
-- Too stupid to learn, but I love music dearly.'
-- 'How stupid you are, child!He meant you, of course.'
-- I am a stupid thing, and ought to be studying, not playing,' was Beth's resolution, while Amy followed their example by heroically declaring, 'I shall learn to make buttonholes, and attend to my parts of speech.'
-- 'Only one of my stupid speeches.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "It was just between daybreak and sunrise of the morning of the second day, when they were washing down the decks, that a stupid Teneriffe man, drawing water in the main-chains, all at once shouted out, 'There she rolls!there she rolls!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Lie down, you stupid brute!Don't you know the devil when he's got a great-coat on?'
-- said the worthy matron, setting it down very hastily on the hob; 'a little stupid thing, that only holds a couple of cups!What use is it of, to anybody!Except,' said Mrs. Corney, pausing, 'except to a poor desolate creature like me.
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