large是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 大的, 广大的, 大规模的,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《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The guide watched Kiouni, who slept standing, bolstering himself against the trunk of a large tree.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had played football; he was as strong and nearly as large as a steer, and no steer ever bellowed more enormously.
-- The Regents were the supreme rulers of the University; they were bankers and manufacturers and pastors of large churches; to them even the president was humble.
-- She considered herself a superb tennis player; she played it with energy and voluble swoopings and large lack of direction.
-- Clif Clawson and he lived in a large room with flowered wallpaper, piles of filthy clothes, iron beds, and cuspidors.
-- The back room was simpler: cases of sweet and thinly flavored soda, a large ice-box, and two small tables with broken chairs.
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:
-- At the same time her large dark eyes, which looked larger still from the thinness of her frightened face, were watching her mother with alarm.
-- At last he opened it; it was a thick heavy letter, weighing over two ounces, two large sheets of note paper were covered with very small handwriting.
-- Katerina Ivanovna ran to the window; there, on a broken chair in the corner, a large earthenware basin full of wa-ter had been stood, in readiness for washing her children's and husband's linen that night.
-- He wore his hair cut short and had a large round head, particularly prominent at the back.
-- Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Each of them was lyingon at least four chairs, and had a large rough jacket on.
-- They left me, during this time, with avery nice man, with a very large head of red hair and a very smallshiny hat upon it, who had got a cross-barred shirt or waistcoat on,with 'Skylark' in capital letters across the chest.
-- Little Em'ly had overcome her shyness, andwas sitting by my side upon the lowest and least of the lockers,which was just large enough for us two, and just fitted in the 38chimney corner.
-- 'If I was ever to be a lady, I'd give him a sky-blue coatwith diamond buttons, nankeen trousers, a red velvet waistcoat, acocked hat, a large gold watch, a silver pipe, and a box of money.'
-- It was quiet enough to reassure me, but I have no doubt if I hadseen a moderately large wave come tumbling in, I should havetaken to my heels, with an awful recollection of her drownedrelations.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A large debt of gratitude was owing here; but the intercourse of the last seven years, the equal footing and perfect unre-serve which had soon followed Isabella's marriage, on their being left to each other, was yet a dearer, tenderer recol-lection.
-- Highbury, the large and populous village, almost amounting to a town, to which Hartfield, in spite of its separate lawn, and shrubberies, and name, did really be-long, afforded her no equals.
-- He had not much in-tercourse with any families beyond that circle; his horror of late hours, and large dinner-parties, made him unfit for any acquaintance but such as would visit him on his own terms.
-- They were a family of the name of Martin, whomEmma well knew by character, as renting a large farm of Mr. Knightley, and residing in the parish of Donwell very creditably, she believed she knew Mr. Knightley thought highly of them but they must be coarse and unpolished, and very unfit to be the intimates of a girl who wanted only a little more knowledge and elegance to be quite perfect.
-- Emma encouraged her talkativeness amused by such a picture of another set of beings, and enjoying the youthful simplicity which could speak with so much exultation of Mrs. Martin's having 'two parlours, two very good parlours, indeed; one of them quite as large as Mrs. Goddard's drawing-room; and of her hav-ing an upper maid who had lived five-and-twenty years with her; and of their having eight cows, two of them Alderneys, and one a little Welch cow, a very pretty little Welch cow in-deed; and of Mrs. Martin's saying as she was so fond of it, it should be called her cow; and of their having a very hand-some summer-house in their garden, where some day next year they were all to drink tea: a very handsome summer-house, large enough to hold a dozen people.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Finding that the area of a single county did not afford a canvas large enough for this purpose, and that there were objections to an invented name, I disinterred the old one.
-- Previously he had been a bailiff for a short time, and earlier still a shepherd only, having from his childhood assisted his father in tending the flocks of large proprietors, till old Gabriel sank to rest.
-- He returned to the hut, bringing in his arms a new-born lamb, consisting of four legs large enough for a full-grown sheep, united by a seemingly inconsiderable membrane about half the substance of the legs collectively, which constituted the animal's entire body just at present.
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