these是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为pron. /a. 这些; 这些人(东西),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:
-- Crate after crate yielded bottles, until all six were empty and the table high with straw; the only things that came out of these crates besides the bottles were a number of test-tubes and a carefully packed balance.
-- These consisted for the most part in looking very hard at the stranger whenever they met, or in asking people who had never seen the stranger, leading questions about him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'What are these beasts for?
-- I found Montgomery very reticent about his purpose with these creatures, and about his desti- nation; and though I was sensible of a growing curiosity as to both, I did not press him.
-- These circum-stances threw a haze of mystery round the man.
-- I fancied while we were still far off that I saw some other and very grotesque-looking creatures scuttle into the bushes upon the slope; but I saw nothing of these as we drew nearer.
-- The dogs were still snarling, and strained at their chains after these men, as the white-haired man land-ed with them.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.'
-- He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I I have to kill for two, these days.'
-- 'I did not know these things,' said Mowgli sullenly, and he frowned under his heavy black eyebrows.
-- The big, seri-ous, old brown bear was delighted to have so quick a pupil, for the young wolves will only learn as much of the Law of the Jungle as applies to their own pack and tribe, and run away as soon as they can repeat the Hunting Verse 'Feet that make no noise; eyes that can see in the dark; ears that can hear the winds in their lairs, and sharp white teeth, all these things are the marks of our brothers except Tabaqui the Jackal and the Hyaena whom we hate.'
-- That is why I teach him these things, and that is why I hit him, very softly, when he forgets.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic.
-- In these pages, Lenni-Lenape, Lenope, Delawares, Wap-anachki, and Mohicans, all mean the same people, or tribes of the same stock.
-- They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen them.
-- Of all the tribes named in these pages, there exist only a few half-civilized beings of the Oneidas, on the reservations of their people in New York.
-- While the husbandman shrank back from the dangerous passes, within the safer boundaries of the more ancient set-tlements, armies larger than those that had often disposed of the scepters of the mother countries, were seen to bury themselves in these forests, whence they rarely returned but in skeleton bands, that were haggard with care or dejected by defeat.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With these he lived successively a week at a time, thus going the rounds of the neighborhood, with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief.
-- All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phan-toms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambula-tions, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was a woman.
-- As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness.
-- From the moment Ichabod laid his eyes upon these re-gions of delight, the peace of his mind was at an end, and his only study was how to gain the affections of the peer-less daughter of Van Tassel.
-- But all these were nothing to the tales of ghosts and apparitions that succeeded.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And if I may judge from the reviews, many of these books are well and carefully written; much thought has gone to their composition; to some even has been given the anxious labour of a lifetime.
-- They remember that they too trod down a sated generation, with just such clamor and with just such scorn, and they foresee that these brave torch-bearers will presently yield their place also.
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