sharp是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 锋利的; 轮廓分明的; 急转的ad. (指时刻) 正,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:
-- A few sharp strokes, however, soon shivered it to fragments, many of which had pieces of paper sticking to them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A sharp rain, too, was beating against the window-panes; and the sky looked black and cloudy.
-- The snow lay on the ground, frozen into a hard thick crust, so that only the heaps that had drifted into byways and corners were affected by the sharp wind that howled abroad: which, as if expending increased fury on such prey as it found, caught it savagely up in clouds, and, whirling it into a thousand misty eddies, scattered it in air.
-- There was the chairman himself, (the landlord of the house,) a coarse, rough, heavy built fellow, who, while the songs were proceeding, rolled his eyes hither and thither, and, seeming to give himself up to joviality, had an eye for everything that was done, and an ear for everything that was said-- and sharp ones, too.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If she is half as sharp as her mother, she is saving enough.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Just as I had set my mast and sail, and the boat began to stretch away, I saw even by the clearness of the water some alteration of the current was near; for where the current was so strong the water was foul; but perceiving the water clear, I found the current abate; and presently I found to the east, at about half a mile, a breach of the sea upon some rocks: these rocks I found caused the current to part again, and as the main stress of it ran away more southerly, leaving the rocks to the north-east, so the other returned by the re-pulse of the rocks, and made a strong eddy, which ran back again to the north-west, with a very sharp stream.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When their promised visit to the Park and consequent introduction to these young ladies took place, they found in the appearance of the eldest, who was nearly thirty, with a very plain and not a sensible face, nothing to admire; but in the other, who was not more than two or three and twenty, they acknowledged considerable beauty; her features were pretty, and she had a sharp quick eye, and a smartness of air, which though it did not give actual elegance or grace, gave distinction to her person. Their manners were particularly civil, and Elinor soon allowed them credit for some kind of sense, when she saw with what constant and judicious attention they were making themselves agreeable to Lady Middleton.
-- "And yet I do assure you," replied Lucy, her little sharp eyes full of meaning, "there seemed to me to be a coldness and displeasure in your manner that made me quite uncomfortable.
-- Elinor began to find this impertinence too much for her temper; but she was saved the trouble of checking it, by Lucy's sharp reprimand, which now, as on many occasions, though it did not give much sweetness to the manners of one sister, was of advantage in governing those of the other.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It scudded the fleecy clouds in the heavens, trailed long, thin streamers of smoke from the tall stacks, and raced about the streets and corners in sharp and sudden puffs.
-- "I'm not keeping anybody waiting," returned Jessica, sharply, stirred out of a cynical indifference to a sharp defence.
-- When, in addition, a sharp temper was manifested, and to the process of shouldering him out of his authority was added a rousing intellectual kick, such as a sneer or a cynical laugh, he was unable to keep his temper.
-- she exclaimed, turning to him a determined countenance upon which was drawn a sharp and wrathful sneer.
-- "It's a lie, I tell you," he said, in a low, sharp voice.
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 went tearing after it, listening sharp to hear it again.
-- There warn't nothing to do now but to look out sharp for the town, and not pass it without seeing it.
-- I went to looking out sharp for a light, and sort of sing- ing to myself.
-- He told me to watch out sharp and let him know when the men come in sight again; said they was up to some devilment or other wouldn't be gone long.
-- The minute I was far enough above the town to see Icould make the towhead, I begun to look sharp for a boat to borrow, and the first time the lightning showed me one that wasn't chained I snatched it and shoved.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As soon as they were done, Geppetto felt a sharp kick on the tip of his nose.
-- At that moment, a Blackbird, perched on the fence along the road, called out sharp and clear: "Pinocchio, do not listen to bad advice.
-- Taking out two long, sharp knives, they struck two heavy blows on the Marionette's back.
-- A little because of the sharp pain in his legs, a little because of fright at finding himself alone in the darkness of the field, the Marionette was about to faint, when he saw a tiny Glowworm flickering by.
-- But they were no sooner in than they heard the door close with a sharp bang.
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