between是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为prep. 在…之间, 在(两者) 之间ad. 在中间,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:
-- Soon her gigantic hull appeared passing along between the banks, and eleven o'clock struck as she anchored in the road.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The dissecting-room itself was impersonal: hard cement floor, walls of hard plaster between wire- glass windows.
-- Every night when Fatty retired he had to remove from his bed a collection of objects which thoughtful house-mates had stuffed between the sheets--soap, alarm clocks, fish.
-- Unfortunately the Reverend Ira Hinkley, who sat between Martin and Angus Duer, had seen Clif drop the pancreas.
-- Under his training she would learn the distinction between vague "ideals" and the hard sureness of science.
-- But he was conscious that in the cotton-plugged test-tube between the instrument-bath and the bichloride jar on the demonstrator's desk were millions of fatal anthrax germs.
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:
-- The furniture, all very old and of yellow wood, consisted of a sofa with a huge bent wooden back, an oval table in front of the sofa, a dressing-table with a looking-glass fixed on it between the windows, chairs along the walls and two or three half-penny prints in yellow frames, representing German damsels with birds in their hands that was all.
-- All the trouble between him and Katerina Ivanovna was on Sonia's ac-count.
-- An awful scene took place between them on the spot in the garden; Marfa Petrovna went so far as to strike Dounia, refused to hear anything and was shouting at her for a whole hour and then gave orders that Dounia should be packed off at once to me in a plain peasant's cart, into which they flung all her things, her linen and her clothes, all pell-mell, without folding it up and packing it.
-- But at that instant some-one seized him from behind, and a police constable stood between them.
-- When he had finished with this, he thrust his hand into a little opening between his sofa and the floor, fumbled in the left corner and drew out the pledge which he had got ready long before and hidden there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My interest in it was so recent and strong, and my mind was sodivided between pleasure and regret- pleasure in the achievementof a long design, regret in the separation from many companions-that I was in danger of wearying the reader with personalconfidences and private emotions.
-- I recollect Peggotty and I peepingout at them from my little window; I recollect how closely theyseemed to be examining the sweetbriar between them, as theystrolled along; and how, from being in a perfectly angelic temper,Peggotty turned cross in a moment, and brushed my hair thewrong way, excessively hard.
-- I discovered this, by his being out on the second orthird evening of our visit, and by Mrs. Gummidge's looking up atthe Dutch clock, between eight and nine, and saying he was there,and that, what was more, she had known in the morning he wouldgo there.
-- Between her agitation,and her natural awkwardness in getting out of the cart, Peggottywas making a most extraordinary festoon of herself, but I felt tooblank and strange to tell her so.
-- 'Jane Murdstone,' said Mr. Murdstone to his sister, 'any harshwords between us are, I hope, uncommon.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Between them it was more the intimacy of sisters.
-- How was she to bear the change? It was true that her friend was going only half a mile from them; but Emma was aware that great must be the difference between a Mrs. Weston, only half a mile from them, and a Miss Tay-lor in the house; and with all her advantages, natural and domestic, she was now in great danger of suffering from in-tellectual solitude.
-- Emma turned away her head, divided between tears and smiles.
-- He had still a small house in High-bury, where most of his leisure days were spent; and between useful occupation and the pleasures of society, the next eighteen or twenty years of his life passed cheerfully away.
-- Mr. Weston must be between forty and fifty.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.
-- Through a spur of this hill ran the highway between Emminster and Chalk-Newton.
-- It was not at the bird, nor at the cat; it was at an oblong package tied in paper, and lying between them.
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