too是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 也, 还; 太, 过于; 很, 非常,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:
-- One day they went to walk in the wood, that they might be alone; and Jorindel said, 'We must take care that we don't go too near to the fairy's castle.'
-- But about midnight, when the robbers saw from afar that the lights were out and that all seemed quiet, they began to think that they had been in too great a hurry to run away; and one of them, who was bolder than the rest, went to see what was going on.
-- The bean said: 'I too have escaped with a whole skin, but if the old woman had got me into the pan, I should have been made into broth without any mercy, like my comrades.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The style is very plain and simple; and the only fault I find is, that the author, after the manner of travel-lers, is a little too circumstantial.
-- He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound appren-tice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years.
-- But my good master Bates dying in two years after, and I having few friends, my business began to fail; for my con-science would not suffer me to imitate the bad practice of too many among my brethren.
-- I had now fas-tened all the hooks, and, taking the knot in my hand, began to pull; but not a ship would stir, for they were all too fast held by their anchors, so that the boldest part of my enter-prise remained.
-- The reader may remember, that when I signed those ar-ticles upon which I recovered my liberty, there were some which I disliked, upon account of their being too servile; neither could anything but an extreme necessity have forced me to submit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So, Mr. Bounderby threw on his hat he always threw it on, as expressing a man who had been far too busily employed in making himself, to acquire any fashion of wearing his hat and with his hands in his pockets, sauntered out into the hall.
-- As it had grown too dusky without, to see the sign, and as it had not grown light enough within to see the picture, Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby received no offence from these idealities.
-- His chest and back were as much too broad, as his legs were too short.
-- 'Because this isn't a strong building, and too much of you might bring it down!'
-- said Mr. Sleary, who was troubled with asthma, and whose breath came far too thick and heavy for the letter s, 'Your thervant!Thith ith a bad piethe of bithnith, thith ith.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was too busy examining his papers, among which of course was the famous parchment, and some letters of introduction from the Danish consul which were to pave the way to an introduction to the Governor of Iceland.
-- A centigrade thermometer of Eigel, counting up to 150 degrees, which to me did not appear half enough--or too much.
-- Too hot by half, if the degree of heat was to ascend so high--in which case we should certainly be cooked--not enough, if we wanted to ascertain the exact temperature of springs or metal in a state of fusion.
-- We were exceedingly well received, and without taking too much advantage of the goodness of these worthy people, I should have liked very much to have rested with them after the fatigues of the journey.
-- It was almost too much happiness to be true.
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:
-- It was obvious in them too that love had gone through them: that is, the physical experience.
-- Nevertheless he too was a rebel: rebelling even against his class.
-- Or perhaps rebel is too strong a word; far too strong.
-- But when it came too close and oneself became ridiculous too...?
-- Too much death and horror.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Boats without awnings were too hot to touch; ships blistered at their moorings; the stones of the quays had not cooled, night or day, for months.
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