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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She paid no attention to what was going on around her, but paced, bare-footed, and in a dirty gray shirt, over the floor of the cell, making sharp and quick turns when she reached the wall.
-- "If they had not prevented me, I should have knocked out your eyes," the red-haired one began again, and again came a quick and sharp retort.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Their hair, which was uniformly curly, came to a sharp end at the neck and cheek; there was not the faintest suggestion of it on the face, and their ears were singularly minute.
-- Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth, here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk.
-- The sea stretched away to the south-west, to rise into a sharp bright horizon against the wan sky.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Garden of Live Flowers'I should see the garden far better,' said Alice to herself, 'if I could get to the top of that hill: and here's a path that leads straight to it at least, no, it doesn't do that ' (after going a few yards along the path, and turning several sharp corners), 'but I suppose it will at last.
-- So she wandered on, talking to herself as she went, till, on turning a sharp corner, she came upon two fat little men, so suddenly that she could not help starting back, but in another moment she recovered herself, feeling sure that they must be.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then it struck sharp on the inn door, and then we could hear the handle being turned and the bolt rattling as the wretched being tried to enter; and then there was a long time of silence both within and without.
-- The captain, on his part, never spoke but when he was spoken to, and then sharp and short and dry, and not a word wasted.
-- All three seemed sharp and conical in figure.
-- Sharp as must have been his annoyance, Silver had the strength of mind to hide it.
-- As I did so, I let go of the tiller, which sprang sharp to leeward, and I think this saved my life, for it struck Hands across the chest and stopped him, for the moment, dead.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Scotia had not struck, but she had been struck, and seemingly by something rather sharp and penetrating than blunt.
-- For three months, during which a day seemed an age, the Abraham Lincoln furrowed all the waters of the Northern Pacific, running at whales, making sharp deviations from her course, veering suddenly from one tack to another, stopping suddenly, putting on steam, and backing ever and anon at the risk of deranging her machinery, and not one point of the Japanese or American coast was left unexplored.
-- The soil of the forest seemed covered with sharp blocks, difficult to avoid.
-- After descending a rather sharp declivity, our feet trod the bottom of a kind of circular pit.
-- The shark's jaws opened wide, like a pair of factory shears, and it would have been all over with the Captain; but, quick as thought, harpoon in hand, Ned Land rushed towards the shark and struck it with its sharp point.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She wanted to be alone, to know this strange, sharp inoculation that had changed the whole temper of her blood.
-- He felt a sharp constraint.
-- Suddenly, from the boat-house, a white figure ran out, frightening in its swift sharp transit, across the old landing-stage.
-- Gudrun was silent for some moments, in sharp disagreement.
-- In Birkin's face was a little irritable tension, a sharp knitting of the brows, keen and difficult.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I certainly esteem myself a steady, reasonable kind of body,' she said; 'not exactly from living among the hills and seeing one set of faces, and one series of actions, from year's end to year's end; but I have undergone sharp discipline, which has taught me wisdom; and then, I have read more than you would fancy, Mr. Lockwood.
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