sole是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 单独的, 惟一的; 独有的 n. 脚底, 鞋底, 袜底,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As soon as they grew calmer they asked a complete string of questions, and Lady Helena recounted the whole story of the document, telling them that their father had been wrecked on the coast of Patagonia, and that he and two sailors, the sole survivors, appeared to have reached the shore, and had written an appeal for help in three languages and committed it to the care of the waves.
-- I imagined myself the sole survivor."
-- "King, among others, the sole survivor of the Burke expedition," put in Paganel.
-- The missionaries stationed at various points were the sole channels of Christian civilization.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Yes, he's boasting like a drunkard,' added Nastasia, as though with the sole intention of goading him.
-- Why, he had only come for the sole purpose of seeing her, all the way from Moscow!
-- Nothing!The sole result is that you despise me!Therefore I must be a fool, I am use-less, it is time I disappeared!And I shall leave not even a memory!Not a sound, not a trace, not a single deed!I have not spread a single truth!...
-- I was almost beside myself with rage!I believe if I could have resuscitated him I would have done so for the sole purpose of murdering him!
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But Polypoetes was not sole in command, for with him was Leonteus, of the race of Mars, who was son of Coronus, the son of Caeneus.
-- Vain is your boast in that you have scratched the sole of my foot.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My sole object was to get shelter from the snow, to get myself covered and warm; then I might hope to plan.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nor does it at all diminish the curiousness of this matter, that to many thousands of our rural boys and young men born along its line, the probationary life of the Grand Canal furnishes the sole transition between quietly reaping in a Christian corn-field, and recklessly ploughing the waters of the most barbaric seas.
-- Such an unwonted bustle was he in that the staid Starbuck, his official superior, quietly resigned to him for the time the sole management of affairs.
-- The consequence of all this was, that the archangel cared little or nothing for the captain and mates; and since the epidemic had broken out, he carried a higher hand than ever; declaring that the plague, as he called it, was at his sole command; nor should it be stayed but according to his good pleasure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sole places that seemed to prosper amid the general blight of the place, were the public-houses; and in them, the lowest orders of Irish were wrangling with might and main.
-- The subject matter of this conference was not disclosed in the parlour, but the kitchen was speedily enlightened concerning it; for Mr. Giles walked straight thither, and having called for a mug of ale, announced, with an air of majesty, which was highly effective, that it had pleased his mistress, in consideration of his gallant behaviour on the occasion of that attempted robbery, to deposit, in the local savings-bank, the sum of five-and-twenty pounds, for his sole use and benefit.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, perhaps, his sister does as well for the present, and, as she is under his sole care, he may do what he likes with her.'
-- He was seriously concerned that a cause of so little ad-vantage to anyone should be forwarded at the sole expense of his brother-in-law, and he was determined, if possible, to find out the extent of his assistance, and to discharge the obligation as soon as he could.
-- Lady Catherine, it appeared, had actually taken the trouble of this journey from Rosings, for the sole pur- pose of breaking off her supposed engagement with Mr. Darcy.
-- 'This is a wretched beginning indeed!My sole depen-dence was on you; and I am sure nobody else will believe me, if you do not.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nothing occurred to my thought to contradict any of these conclusions, and there-fore it rested upon me with the greater force, that it must needs be that God had appointed all this to befall me; that I was brought into this miserable circumstance by His di-rection, He having the sole power, not of me only, but of everything that happened in the world.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Elinor could not help smiling at this display of indifference towards the manners of a person, to whom she had often had difficulty in persuading Marianne to behave with tolerable politeness; and resolved within herself, that if her sister persisted in going, she would go likewise, as she did not think it proper that Marianne should be left to the sole guidance of her own judgment, or that Mrs. Jennings should be abandoned to the mercy of Marianne for all the comfort of her domestic hours.
-- My object my wish my sole wish in desiring it I hope, I believe it is is to be a means of giving comfort; no, I must not say comfort not present comfort but conviction, lasting conviction to your sister's mind.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I sole de hide en taller for a dollar en ten cents.'
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