butterfly是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 蝴蝶,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:
-- He had snatched at the money forthwith and had been knocked headlong, and when he had got to his feet the butterfly money had vanished.
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 butterfly flies to the light.
-- Have you seen a butterfly round a candle?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Far away up the desolate slope I heard a harsh scream, and saw a thing like a huge white butterfly go slanting and fluttering up into the sky and, circling, disappear over some low hillocks beyond.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was full of girls, girls who floated in butterfly bright dresses, hooped outenormously, lace pantalets peeping from beneath; round little white shoulders bare, and faintest traces of soft littlebosoms showing above lace flounces; lace shawls carelessly hanging from arms; fans spangled and painted, fans ofswan's-down and peacock feathers, dangling at wrists by tiny velvet ribbons; girls with masses of golden curls abouttheir necks and fringed gold earbobs that tossed and danced with their dancing curls.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The little yes, gone on a breath!Why should one be pinned down by that butterfly word?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I made it like those Beth invented, a big butterfly with a fat body, and black and yellow wings, worsted feelers, and bead eyes.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues every stately or lovely emblazoning the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The old butterfly was as light on the wing as ever.
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