enemy是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 敌人, 仇敌, 反对者; 敌人, 敌军, 敌国,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:
-- As I was say-ing ' Her look so discomposed him that he stopped, wan-dered, and began anew: 'As I was saying; if Monsieur Manette had not died; if he had suddenly and silently disappeared; if he had been spirited away; if it had not been difficult to guess to what 32 A tale of two citiesdreadful place, though no art could trace him; if he had an enemy in some compatriot who could exercise a privilege that I in my own time have known the boldest people afraid to speak of in a whisper, across the water there; for instance, the privilege of filling up blank forms for the consignment of any one to the oblivion of a prison for any length of time; if his wife had implored the king, the queen, the court, the clergy, for any tidings of him, and all quite in vain; then the history of your father would have been the history of this unfortunate gentleman, the Doctor of Beauvais.'
-- That this correspondence with the public enemy was not a correspondence of to-day, or of yesterday, or even of last year, or of the year before.
-- demanded madame, tying another knot, as if there were another enemy strangled.
-- 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.
-- 'An enemy to the Republic!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "And so here I am going away, having made an enemy of Kitty, whom I liked so much!Ah, how sweet she is!But you'll make it right, Dolly?
-- But in compensation he gave no quarter to the enemy either.
-- Moreover, Stremov, one of the most influential people in Petersburg, and the elderly admirer of Liza Merkalova, was Alexey Alexandrovitch's enemy in the political world.
-- On meeting Anna Karenina, as he was Alexey Alexandrovitch's enemy in the government, he tried, like a shrewd man and a man of the world, to be particularly cordial with her, the wife of his enemy.
-- He knew that when the time came, and when he saw his enemy facing him, and studiously endeavoring to assume an expression of indifference, his speech would flow of itself better than he could prepare it now.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He spoke to Gottlieb not as to a colleague or an enemy but as a patient, to be cheered.
-- While the other rickety cars of the village announced to the world, or at least to several square miles of the world, that Wheatsylvania was the "Wonder Town of Central N. D.," Martin's clattering Ford went bare; and when his enemy Norblom remarked, "I like to see a fellow have some public spirit and appreciate the place he gets his money outa," the citizenry nodded and spat, and began to question Martin's fame as a worker of miracles.
-- When he added a drop containing the Principle to a growth of staphylococcus which was a gray film on the solid surface of agar, the drop was beautifully outlined by bare patches, as the enemy made its attack, so that the agar slant looked like moth-eaten beeswax.
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:
-- They say that at Sevastopol, soon after Alma, the clever people were in a terrible fright that the enemy would attack openly and take Sevastopol at once.
-- But when they saw that the enemy preferred a regular siege, they were delighted, I am told and reassured, for the thing would drag on for two months at least.
-- He realised that this was the best policy in his position, because instead of saying too much he would be irritating his enemy by his silence and provoking him into speaking too freely.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'In my honeymoon, too,when my most inveterate enemy might relent, one would think,and not envy me a little peace of mind and happiness.
-- Ibegan another, 'Shakespeare has observed, my dear Agnes, howstrange it is that a man should put an enemy into his month'- thatreminded me of Markham, and it got no farther.
-- He is quite a good fellow- nobody's enemy but his own.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I had thought of that, and I have considered that if I can't appeal to your honour I can trust to your well, shrewdness we'll call it not to lose five hundred pounds in prospect, and also make a bitter enemy of a man who is willing to be an extremely useful friend."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I could hardly be-lieve that so great a good fortune could have befallen me, but when I became assured that my enemy had indeed fled, I clapped my hands for joy and ran down to Clerval.
-- I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly.
-- 'I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exulta-tion and hellish triumph; clapping my hands, I exclaimed, 'I too can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him.'
-- During my absence I should leave my friends unconscious of the existence of their enemy and unprotected from his at-tacks, exasperated as he might be by my departure.
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