paradise是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 天国, 乐园,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:
-- "Yes," replied Harry Grant, "a paradise to these poor, shipwrecked fellows that Heaven had pity on, but I am sorry that Maria Theresa was not an extensive and fertile island, with a river instead of a stream, and a port instead of a tiny bay exposed to the open sea."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And you thought that I should consider your wretched seventy-five thou-sand, with Gania thrown in for a husband, a paradise of bliss!Take your seventy-five thousand back, sir; you did not reach the hundred thousand.
-- I should not enjoy paradise nearly so much without hav-ing done this first.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Little Bethel might have been nearer, and might have been in a straighter road, though in that case the reverend gentleman who presided over its congregation would have lost his favourite allusion to the crooked ways by which it was approached, and which enabled him to liken it to Paradise itself, in contradistinction to the parish church and the broad thoroughfare leading thereunto.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- San Francisco was no longer the legendary city of 1849 a city of banditti, assassins, and incendiaries, who had flocked hither in crowds in pursuit of plunder; a paradise of outlaws, where they gambled with gold-dust, a revolver in one hand and a bowie-knife in the other: it was now a great commercial emporium.
-- It seemed to him a terrible thing to have to guide so many wives at once across the vicissitudes of life, and to conduct them, as it were, in a body to the Mormon paradise with the prospect of seeing them in the company of the glorious Smith, who doubtless was the chief ornament of that delightful place, to all eternity.
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:
-- 'For my own part,' continued Hawkeye, turning his face for a moment in the direction indicated by Heyward, but with a vacant and careless manner, 'I believe that paradise is ordained for happiness; and that men will be indulged in it according to their dispositions and gifts.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Young Man's Best Companion, The Farrier's Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash's Dictionary, and Walkingame's Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities has done from a furlong of laden shelves.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I also became a poet and for one year lived in a paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.
-- It was indeed a paradise compared to the bleak forest, my former residence, the rain-dropping branch-es, and dank earth.
-- Fortunately the books were written in the language, the elements of which I had acquired at the cottage; they consisted of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch's Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter.
-- 'But Paradise Lost excited different and far deeper emo-153tions.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sometimes they put snares on the top of high trees that the birds of paradise prefer to frequent.
-- The birds of paradise fled at our approach, and truly I despaired of getting near one when Conseil, who was walking in front, suddenly bent down, uttered a triumphal cry, and came back to me bringing a magnificent specimen.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the midst of this profound darkness, there seemed to glow on her heart the effulgence of a paradise unknown and unrealised.
-- Her heart was full of the most wonderful light, golden like honey of darkness, sweet like the warmth of day, a light which was not shed on the world, only on the unknown paradise towards which she was going, a sweetness of habitation, a delight of living quite unknown, but hers infallibly.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hindley hurried up from his paradise on the hearth, and seizing one of us by the collar, and the other by the arm, hurled both into the back kitchen; where, Joseph asseverated, "owd Nick would fetch us as sure as we were living: and, so comforted, we each sought a separate nook to await his advent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He only called it a Paradise because he first saw her coming, and so made her out within her hearing to be an angel, Confusion to him!
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, like all happiness, it did not last long, for as sure as she had just reached the heart of the story, the sweetest verse of a song, or the most perilous adventure of her traveler, a shrill voice called, 'Josy-phine!Josy-phine!and she had to leave her paradise to wind yarn, wash the poodle, or read Belsham's Essays by the hour together.
-- The tea bell rang before he had finished describing the paradise which he meant to earn for Meg, and he proudly took her in to supper, both looking so happy that Jo hadn't the heart to be jealous or dismal.
-- Her paradise was not a tranquil one, for the little woman fussed, was over-anxious to please, and bustled about like a true Martha, cumbered with many cares.
-- It was not all Paradise by any means, but everyone was better for the division of labor system.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad.
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