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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I should explain," he added, "what I was really too cold and fatigued to do before, that I am an experimental investigator."
-- Besides, his vocabulary was altogether too limited to express his impressions.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I remember how my head swayed with the seas, and the horizon with the sail above it danced up and down; but I also remember as distinctly that I had a persuasion that I was dead, and that I thought what a jest it was that they should come too late by such a little to catch me in my body.
-- Fastened by chains to the mainmast were a number of grisly staghounds, who now began leaping and barking at me, and by the miz-zen a huge puma was cramped in a little iron cage far too small even to give it turning room.
-- I could see that Montgomery had one of those slow, per-tinacious tempers that will warm day after day to a white heat, and never again cool to forgiveness; and I saw too that this quarrel had been some time growing.
-- It was too far to see any details; it seemed to me then simply a low-lying patch of dim blue in the uncer- tain blue-grey sea.
-- It struck me too that the men regarded my companion and his animals in a singu- larly unfriendly manner.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But Father Wolf knew that the mouth of the cave was too narrow for a tiger to come in by.
-- Yes, I too was born among men.
-- It is the man-cub who has lived too long.
-- 'He is our brother in all but blood,' Akela went on, 'and ye would kill him here!In truth, I have lived too long.
-- 'Is there anything in the jungle too little to be killed?
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:
-- While writing this book, fully a quarter of a century since, it occurred to us that the French name of this lake was too complicated, the American too common-place, and the Indian too unpronounceable, for either to be used familiarly in a work of fiction.
-- The facilities which nature had there offered to the march of the combatants were too obvious to be neglected.
-- In this mortifying abasement, the colonists, though innocent of her imbecility, and too humble to be the agents of her blunders, were but the natural participators.
-- The veteran Scotchman just named held the first, with a regiment of regulars and a few provincials; a force really by far too small to make head against the for-midable power that Montcalm was leading to the foot of his earthen mounds.
-- After simpering in a small way, like one whose modesty prohib-ited a more open expression of his admiration of a witticism that was perfectly unintelligible to his hearers, he contin-ued, 'It is not prudent for any one of my profession to be too familiar with those he has to instruct; for which reason I follow not the line of the army; besides which, I conclude that a gentleman of your character has the best judgment in matters of wayfaring; I have, therefore, decided to join company, in order that the ride may be made agreeable, and partake of social communion.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to considered the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones he had various ways of rendering himself both use-ful and agreeable.
-- No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow.
-- Brom, who had a degree of rough chivalry in his nature, would fain have carried matters to open warfare and have settled their pretensions to the lady, according to the mode of those most concise and simple reasoners, the knights-errant of yore, by single combat; but lchabod was too conscious of the superior might of his adversary to enter the lists against him; he had overheard a boast of Bones, that he would 'double the schoolmaster up, and lay him on a shelf of his own schoolhouse;' and he was too wary to give him an opportunity.
-- And then there were apple pies, and peach pies, and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledy- pigglely, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst Heaven bless the mark!I want breath and time to discuss this banquet as it deserves, and am too eager to get on with my story.
-- And there was an old gentleman who shall be nameless, being too rich a myn-heer to be lightly mentioned, who, in the battle of White Plains, being an excellent master of defence, parried a mus-ket-ball with a small-sword, insomuch that he absolutely felt it whiz round the blade, and glance off at the hilt; in proof of which he was ready at any time to show the sword, with the hilt a little bent.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town.
-- With his disinterested passion for art, he had a real desire to call the attention of the wise to a talent which was in the highest degree original; but he was too good a journalist to be unaware that the "human interest" would enable him more easily to effect his purpose.
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