infinite是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 无限的, 无穷的n. 无限,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Silence in the court!Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said serene, illustrious, excel-lent, and so forth; that was to say, by coming and going, between the dominions of our said serene, illustrious, ex-cellent, and so forth, and those of the said French Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise evil-ad-verbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North America.
-- Thus, with beer-drinking, pipe-smoking, song-roaring, and infinite caricaturing of woe, the disorderly procession went its way, recruiting at every step, and all the shops shut-ting up before it.
-- Like 332 A tale of two citiesthe fabled rustic who raised the Devil with infinite pains, and was so terrified at the sight of him that he could ask the Enemy no question, but immediately fled; so, Monseigneur, after boldly reading the Lord's Prayer backwards for a great number of years, and performing many other potent spells for compelling the Evil One, no sooner beheld him in his terrors than he took to his noble heels.
-- Citizen Gabelle hinted, with infinite delicacy and politeness, that in the pressure of busi-ness imposed on the Tribunal by the multitude of enemies of the Republic with which it had to deal, he had been slightly overlooked in his prison of the Abbaye in fact, had rather passed out of the Tribunal's patriotic remembrance until three days ago; when he had been summoned before it, and had been set at liberty on the Jury's declaring themselves satisfied that the accusation against him was answered, as to himself, by the surrender of the citizen Evremonde, called Darnay.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You cannot but know, since the Lord God in His infinite mercy has revealed it to us.
-- "In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble-organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me."
-- "Do I not know that that is infinite space, and that it is not a round arch?
-- But, however I screw up my eyes and strain my sight, I cannot see it not round and not bounded, and in spite of my knowing about infinite space, I am incontestably right when I see a solid blue dome, and more right than when I strain my eyes to see beyond it."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He became delirious, but between spasms he muttered, with infinite pain, tears in his eyes at his own weakness: "I want you to see how an agnostic can die!
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:
-- He lay for half an hour in such anguish, such an intolerable sensation of infinite terror as he had never experienced before.
-- he cried a minute later in despair, looking with infinite anguish at her.
-- Her eyes, fixed upon him, 722 Crime and Punishmentbetrayed horror and infinite grief.
-- But at the same moment she understood, and a light of infinite happiness came into her eyes.
-- They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The very sight of these two has such an influence over me, that Ibegin to feel the words I have been at infinite pains to get into myhead, all sliding away, and going I don't know where.
-- said Peggotty, with infinite compassion.
-- At length the reply from Mr.Murdstone came, and my aunt informed me, to my infinite terror,that he was coming to speak to her himself on the next day.
-- 203'Do you think I don't know,' said my aunt, turning a deaf ear to thesister, and continuing to address the brother, and to shake her headat him with infinite ex- pression, 'what kind of life you must haveled that poor, unhappy, misdirected baby?
-- On this point,as well as on all other possible points, Mr. Dick was convinced that 237my aunt was the wisest and most wonderful of women; as herepeatedly told me with infinite secrecy, and always in a whisper.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Miss Churchill, however, being of age, and with the full command of her fortune though her fortune bore no pro-portion to the family-estate was not to be dissuaded from the marriage, and it took place, to the infinite mortification of Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, who threw her off with due deco-rum.
-- 'Might he be trusted with the commission, what infinite pleasure should he have in executing it!he could ride to London at any time.
-- 'Oh!Miss Woodhouse, believe me I have not the pre-sumption to suppose Indeed I am not so mad. But it is a pleasure to me to admire him at a distance and to think of his infinite superiority to all the rest of the world, with the gratitude, wonder, and veneration, which are so proper, in me especially.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The rain had quite ceased, and the sun was shining through the green, brown, and yellow leaves, now sparkling and varnished by the raindrops to the brightness of similar effects in the landscapes of Ruysdael and Hobbema, and full of all those infinite beauties that arise from the union of water and colour with high lights.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form?
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