shady是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 成荫的, 多荫的; 可疑的, 靠不住的,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All society both the inhabitants of the place and those who came down of an evening for the music had got hold of one and the same story, in a thousand varieties of detail as to how a cer-tain young prince had raised a terrible scandal in a most respectable household, had thrown over a daughter of the family, to whom he was engaged, and had been captured by a woman of shady reputation whom he was determined to marry at once breaking off all old ties for the satisfaction of his insane idea; and, in spite of the public indignation roused by his action, the marriage was to take place in Pav-lofsk openly and publicly, and the prince had announced his intention of going through with it with head erect and looking the whole world in the face.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Tro-jans had gathered round Ulysses like ravenous mountain jackals round the carcase of some horned stag that has been hit with an arrow the stag has fled at full speed so long as his blood was warm and his strength has lasted, but when the arrow has overcome him, the savage jackals devour him in the shady glades of the forest.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And all about that neighbourhood, even from the august London and Country Banking Company, from the tills of shops and inns doors standing that sunny weather entirely open money had been quietly and dexterously making off that day in handfuls and rouleaux, floating quietly along by walls and shady places, dodging quickly from the approaching eyes of men.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then Mowgli picked out a shady place, and lay down and slept while the buffaloes grazed round him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Kit walked about, now with quick steps and now with slow; now lingering as some rider slackened his horse's pace and looked about him; and now darting at full speed up a bye-street as he caught a glimpse of some distant horseman going lazily up the shady side of the road, and promising to stop, at every door.
-- There were the seats where the poor old people sat, worn spare, and yellow like themselves; the rugged font where children had their names, the homely altar where they knelt in after life, the plain black tressels that bore their weight on their last visit to the cool old shady church.
-- When they rose up from the ground, and took the shady track which led them through the wood, she bounded on before, printing her tiny footsteps in the moss, which rose elastic from so light a pressure and gave it back as mirrors throw off breath; and thus she lured the old man on, with many a backward look and merry beck, now pointing stealthily to some lone bird as it perched and twittered on a branch that strayed across their path, now stopping to listen to the songs that broke the happy silence, or watch the sun as it trembled through the leaves, and stealing in among the ivied trunks of stout old trees, opened long paths of light.
-- What rebellious thoughts of the cool river, and some shady bathing-place beneath willow trees with branches dipping in the water, kept tempting and urging that sturdy boy, who, with his shirt-collar unbuttoned and flung back as far as it could go, sat fanning his flushed face with a spelling-book, wishing himself a whale, or a tittlebat, or a fly, or anything but a boy at school on that hot, broiling day!Heat!ask that other boy, whose seat being nearest to the door gave him opportunities of gliding out into the garden and driving his companions to madness by dipping his face into the bucket of the well and then rolling on the grass ask him if there were ever such a day as that, when even the bees were diving deep down into the cups of flowers and stopping there, as if they had made up their minds to retire from business and be manufacturers of honey no more.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the 'up again and take another' spirit was as strong in Jo as in Jack, so she scrambled up on the shady side this time and got more booty, but nearly left behind her what was far more precious than the moneybags.
-- At Avigdor's she found the precious home letters and, giving the reins to Laurie, read them luxuriously as they wound up the shady road between green hedges, where tea roses bloomed as freshly as in June.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Strange!Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses will not suffice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The coach rattled away, over nearly the same ground as that which Oliver had traversed when he first entered London in company with the Dodger; and, turning a different way when it reached the Angel at Islington, stopped at length before a neat house, in a quiet shady street near Pentonville.
-- Then, he would walk with Mrs. Maylie and Rose, and hear them talk of books; or perhaps sit near them, in some shady place, and listen whilst the young lady read: which he could have done, until it grew too dark to see the letters.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The morning sun, shining down with steadily increasing warmth, made the shady side of the streets pleasantly cool.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe, It was mighty cool and shady in the deep woods, even if the sun was blazing outside.
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