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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And the willow-wren summoned everything which flew in the air, not only birds, large and small, but midges, and hornets, bees and flies had to come.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sometimes they de-termined to starve me; or at least to shoot me in the face and hands with poisoned arrows, which would soon despatch me; but again they considered, that the stench of so large a carcass might produce a plague in the metropolis, and probably spread through the whole kingdom.
-- This inventory I afterwards translated into English, and is, word for word, as follows: 'Imprimis: In the right coat-pocket of the great man-mountain' (for so I interpret the words quinbus flestrin,) 'after the strictest search, we found only one great piece of coarse-cloth, large enough to be a foot-cloth for your maj-esty's chief room of state.
-- In his right waistcoat-pocket we found a prodigious bundle of white thin substances, folded one over another, about the bigness of three men, tied with a strong cable, and marked 32 Gulliver's Travelswith black figures; which we humbly conceive to be writings, every letter almost half as large as the palm of our hands.
-- In the large pocket, on the right side of his middle cover' (so I translate the word ranfulo, by which they meant my breeches,) 'we saw a hol-low pillar of iron, about the length of a man, fastened to a strong piece of timber larger than the pillar; and upon one side of the pillar, were huge pieces of iron sticking out, cut into strange figures, which we know not what to make of.
-- In the smaller pocket on the right side, were several round flat pieces of white and red metal, of different bulk; some of the white, which seemed to be silver, were so large and heavy, that my comrade and I could hardly lift them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The first object with which they had an association, or of which they had a remembrance, was a large black board with a dry Ogre chalking ghastly white figures on it.
-- It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.
-- But the riding-master eye had observed the bottle of the nine oils in her bosom, and he now interposed with 'Leave the bottle, my dear; ith large to carry; it will be of no uthe to you now.
-- 'He were ett'n and drinking as large and as loud as a Hummobee.'
-- With a large allowance for difference of tastes, and with all submission to the patricians of Coketown, this seemed so extraordinary a source of interest to take so much trouble about, that it perplexed him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This home was in a large town, and my uncle a professor of philosophy, chemistry, geology, mineralogy, and many other ologies.
-- Large spectacles hid, to a certain extent, his vast, round, and goggle eyes, while his nose was irreverently compared to a thin file.
-- On the other hand is the large bay of Faxa, bordered on the north by the enormous glacier of Sneffels, and in which bay the Valkyrie was then the only vessel at anchor.
-- His eyes, which started rather prominently from a very large head, the face belonging to which was simple and naive, appeared very quick and intelligent.
-- The hamper was not very large but tolerably satisfactory, for I knew that in concentrated essence of meat and biscuit there was enough to last six months.
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:
-- He was ayoung Irishman who had already made a large fortune by his plays in America.
-- He came back towards tea-time with a large handful of violets and lilies, and the same hang-dog expression.
-- 'I'm afraid Bolshevism is a large question,' said Ham-mond, shaking his head seriously.
-- Miss Bentley was a shallow old maid with a rather large nose and romantic disposition who served tea with a careful intensity worthy of a sacrament.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It received such light as it got through a grating of iron bars fashioned like a pretty large window, by means of which it could be always inspected from the gloomy staircase on which the grating gave.
-- For the rest, he was large and tall in frame, had thin lips, where his thick moustache showed them at all, and a quantity of dry hair, of no definable colour, in its shaggy state, but shot with red.
-- They mounted up and up, through the musty smell of an old close house, little used, to a large garret bed-room.
-- One afternoon he had been doing the honours of the place to a rather large party of collegians, who happened to be going out, when, as he was coming back, he encountered one from the poor side who had been taken in execution for a small sum a week before, had 'settled' in the course of that afternoon, and was going out too.
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