mention是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 提及, 说起,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'What an ass I was to mention it to you!I might have thought.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now you mention it,' said Billy, 'you don't look as though you were made for climbing or running much.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that popula-tion, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless coun-try, sweeps by them unobserved.
-- And then there were apple pies, and peach pies, and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledy- pigglely, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst Heaven bless the mark!I want breath and time to discuss this banquet as it deserves, and am too eager to get on with my story.
-- Brom Bones, too, who, shortly after his rival's dis-appearance conducted the blooming Katrina in triumph to the altar, was observed to look exceedingly knowing when-ever the story of Ichabod was related, and always burst into a hearty laugh at the mention of the pumpkin; which led some to suspect that he knew more about the matter than he chose to tell.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He did not mention the money he owed me, but he said: 'Here is a picture of your plantation that I've painted for you.'
-- I had been slightly tickled at the gentleness which Mrs. Strickland put into her mention of her husband's name, and while the pair conversed I took stock of the room in which we sat.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We must mention here that Pencroft, desirous to know if the clay thus prepared was worthy of its name of pipe-clay, made some large pipes, which he thought charming, but for which, alas!he had no tobacco, and that was a great privation to Pencroft.
-- We must here mention another fortunate circumstance by which new stores for the winter were laid in.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In her bower she was, but not alone, for besides the old lady her mother of whom mention has recently been made, there were present some half-dozen ladies of the neighborhood who had happened by a strange accident (and also by a little understanding among themselves) to drop in one after another, just about tea-time.
-- The truth is and, as there is no accounting for tastes, even a taste so strange as this may be recorded without being looked upon as a wilful and malicious invention the truth is that neither Mrs Wackles nor her eldest daughter had at any time greatly favoured the pretensions of Mr Swiveller, being accustomed to make slight mention of him as 'a gay young man' and to sigh and shake their heads ominously whenever his name was mentioned.
-- I thought I'd mention it.
-- 'They tell me I must not even mention your name to him for a long, long time,' rejoined the child, 'I dare not; and even if I might, what good would a kind word do you, Kit?
-- 'You'll mention that I called, perhaps?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The cruel feeling of offended pride rose in him with greater force at her mention of the hospital.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life.'
-- 'Her Red Majesty's very kind to mention it,' the White Queen murmured into Alice's other ear, in a voice like the cooing of a pigeon.
-- I think you did however, you'd better not mention it to your friends just yet, for I'm not sure.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, to tell you the truth, from the very first mention of Long John in Squire Trelawney's letter I had taken a fear in my mind that he might prove to be the very one-legged sailor whom I had watched for so long at the old Benbow.
-- He was a great confidant of Long John Silver, and so the mention of his name leads me on to speak of our ship's cook, Barbecue, as the men called him.
-- "Just you mention them words to your squire, Jim," he went on.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited.
-- I will not mention all the varieties which passed before my dazzled eyes, all the collection of the seas of China and Japan.
-- As he made no allusion to his absence during the last eight days, I did not mention it, and simply answered that my companions and myself were ready to follow him.
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