peculiar是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 奇怪的, 古怪的; 特有的, 独具的, 独特的,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The student spoke about her with a peculiar relish and was continually laugh-ing and the officer listened with great interest and asked him to send Lizaveta to do some mending for him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But at this point Peggotty- I mean myown peculiar Peggotty- made such impressive motions to me not to 39ask any more questions, that I could only sit and look at all thesilent company, until it was time to go to bed.
-- Mrs.Gummidge's peculiar corner of the fireside seemed to me to be thewarmest and snuggest in the place, as her chair was certainly theeasiest, but it didn't suit her that day at all.
-- After all these occasions Mrs.Micawber made a little treat, which was generally a supper; andthere was a peculiar relish in these meals which I well remember.
-- He had not a pliant face, he had rather a stiffneck, rather a tight smooth head with short hair clinging to it at thesides, a soft way of speaking, with a peculiar habit of whisperingthe letter S so distinctly, that he seemed to use it oftener than anyother man; but every peculiarity that he had he made respectable.
-- Miss Trotwood was good enough tomention that she had a nephew who was her peculiar care, and forwhom she was seeking to provide genteelly in life.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'It was certainly never brilliant, but she would not allow it to have a sickly hue in general; and there was a softness and delicacy in her skin which gave peculiar elegance to the character of her face.'
-- When the Westons arrived, the kindest looks of love, the strongest of admiration were for her, from both husband and wife; the son approached her with a cheerful eagerness which marked her as his peculiar object, and at dinner she found him seated by her and, as she firmly believed, not without some dexterity on his side.
-- And though the consequent shock and alarm was very great and much more durable indeed I believe it was half an hour before any of us were comfortable again yet that was too general a sensation for any thing of peculiar anxiety to be observable.
-- But whether he were entirely free from peculiar attachment whether there were no actual preference re-mained a little longer doubtful.
-- There is no admiration be-tween them, I do assure you; and the appearances which have caught you, have arisen from some peculiar circum-stances feelings rather of a totally different nature it is impossible exactly to explain: there is a good deal of nonsense in it but the part which is capable of being com-municated, which is sense, is, that they are as far from any attachment or admiration for one another, as any two be-ings in the world can be.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The myrtles, geraniums, and cactuses packed around her were fresh and green, and at such a leafless season they invested the whole concern of horses, waggon, furniture, and girl with a peculiar vernal charm.
-- During the first stages of his return to perception peculiar deeds seemed to be in course of enactment.
-- The gallant Mark Clark here made a peculiar and well known sound with his own.
-- The peculiar motion involved in turning a wheel has a wonderful tendency to benumb the mind.
-- Up the sides of this depression grew sheaves of the common rush, and here and there a peculiar species of flag, the blades of which glistened in the emerging sun, like scythes.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chemistry is that branch of natural phi-losophy in which the greatest improvements have been and 47may be made; it is on that account that I have made it my peculiar study; but at the same time, I have not neglected the other branches of science.
-- He raised her and smiled with such kindness and affection that I felt sensations of a peculiar and over-powering nature; they were a mixture of pain and pleasure, such as I had never before experienced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food; and I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions.
-- The memory of that unfortu-nate king and his companions, the amiable Falkland, the insolent Goring, his queen, and son, gave a peculiar inter-est to every part of the city which they might be supposed to have inhabited.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However novel and peculiar this testimony of attachment, I did not doubt the accuracy of the interpretation.
-- Almost as soon as he had spoken, a portly upright man (whom I can see now, as I write) in a well-worn olive-colored frock-coat, with a peculiar pallor overspreading the red in his complexion, and eyes that went wandering about when he tried to fix them, came up to a corner of the bars, and put his hand to his hat--which had a greasy and fatty surface like cold broth--with a half-serious and half-jocose military salute.
-- I cannot exaggerate the enhanced disquiet into which this conversation threw me, or the special and peculiar terror I felt at Compeyson's having been behind me "like a ghost."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These threads are proposed as prizes for those persons whom the emperor has a mind to distinguish by a peculiar mark of his favour.
-- But because the reader may be curious to have some idea of the style and manner of expression peculiar to that people, as well as to know the article upon which I re-covered my liberty, I have made a translation of the whole instrument, word for word, as near as I was able, which I here offer to the public.
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