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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Well, since your Lordship asks my opinion," said Mangles, "I think it is a shark, and a fine large one too."
-- The hook had fixed right in the stomach, which was found to be absolutely empty, and the disappointed sailors were just going to throw the remains overboard, when the boatswain's attention was attracted by some large object sticking fast in one of the viscera.
-- His head was large and massive, his forehead high, his chin very marked.
-- "You can go up the large rivers," suggested Lady Helena.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, we began to increase, and our land began to come into order; so that the third year we planted some tobacco, and made each of us a large piece of ground ready for planting canes in the year to come.
-- We had on board no large cargo of goods, except of such toys as were fit for our trade with the negroes, such as beads, bits of glass, shells, and other trifles, especially little looking-glasses, knives, scissors, hatchets, and the like.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How could he answer it to himself to rob his child, and his only child too, of so large a sum?
-- And what possible claim could the Miss Dashwoods, who were related to him only by half blood, which she considered as no relationship at all, have on his generosity to so large an amount.
-- The time may come when Harry will regret that so large a sum was parted with.
-- But she could hear of no situation that at once answered her notions of comfort and ease, and suited the prudence of her eldest daughter, whose steadier judgment rejected several houses as too large for their income, which her mother would have approved.
-- His kindness was not confined to words; for within an hour after he left them, a large basket full of garden stuff and fruit arrived from the park, which was followed before the end of the day by a present of game.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human.
-- The large plates of window glass, now so common, were then rapidly coming into use, and gave to the ground floor offices a distinguished and prosperous look.
-- Without this enclosure, but just within the street entrance, sat a grey-haired gentleman at a small table, with a large open ledger before him.
-- Somewhat encouraged, she ventured into another large structure.
-- In passing through Fifth Avenue, south towards Van Buren Street, where she intended to take a car, she passed the door of a large wholesale shoe house, through the plate-glass windows of which she could see a middle-aged gentleman sitting at a small desk.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One was a woman in a slim black dress, belted small under the armpits, with bulg- es like a cabbage in the middle of the sleeves, and a large black scoop-shovel bonnet with a black veil, and white slim ankles crossed about with black tape, and very wee black slippers, like a chisel, and she was leaning pensive on a tombstone on her right elbow, under a weeping willow, and her other hand hanging down her side holding a white handkerchief and a reticule, and underneath the picture it said 'Shall I Never See Thee More Alas.'
-- They laid him on the floor and put one large Bible under his head, and opened another one and spread it on his breast; but they tore open his shirt first, and I seen where one of the bullets went in.
-- So he told Jim how we'd have to smuggle in the rope-lad-der pie and other large things by Nat, the nigger that fed him, and he must be on the lookout, and not be surprised, and not let Nat see him open them; and we would put small things in uncle's coat- pockets and he must steal them out; and we would tie things to aunt's apron-strings or put them in her apron-pocket, if we got a chance; and told him what they would be and what they was for.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pinocchio turned and saw a large cricket crawling slowly up the wall.
-- Suddenly, he found himself in a large square, full of people standing in front of a little wooden building painted in brilliant colors.
-- At the signal, a loud whirr of wings in quick flight was heard and a large Falcon came and settled itself on the window ledge.
-- As soon as they entered the town, Pinocchio noticed that all the streets were filled with hairless dogs, yawning from hunger; with sheared sheep, trembling with cold; with combless chickens, begging for a grain of wheat; with large butterflies, unable to use their wings because they had sold all their lovely colors; with tailless peacocks, ashamed to show themselves; and with bedraggled pheasants, scuttling away hurriedly, grieving for their bright feathers of gold and silver, lost to them forever.
-- He turned sharply, and there, just above him on the branch of a tree, sat a large Parrot, busily preening his feathers.
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