instead是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 代替, 顶替,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- II As they bustled down the hall, Angus Duer observed to a brother Digam, "Gottlieb is an old laboratory plug; he hasn't got any imagination; he sticks here instead of getting out into the world and enjoying the fight.
-- "Well, I can tell you right now you haven't had my opinion of your being a waiter!For the life of me I can't understand why you don't get some gentlemanly job for vacation, instead of hustling dirty dishes.
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 loaf I'll fetch you this very minute, but wouldn't you rather have some cabbage soup instead of sausage?
-- Raskolnikov gave back the pen; but instead of getting up and going away, he put his elbows on the table and pressed his head in his hands.
-- And what if the boxes were to float instead of sinking?
-- And you are plagiarists even in that!There isn't a sign of independent life in you!You are made of sper-maceti ointment and you've lymph in your veins instead of blood.
-- And if you weren't a fool, a com-mon fool, a perfect fool, if you were an original instead of a translation 芒聙娄 you see, Rodya, I recognise you're a clever fellow, but you're a fool! and if you weren't a fool you'd come round to me this evening instead of wearing out your boots in the street!Since you have gone out, there's no help for it!I'd give you a snug easy chair, my landlady has one 芒聙娄 a cup of tea, company芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Instead of looking back, therefore, I will look forward.
-- My father had often hinted that she seldom conductedherself like any ordinary Christian; and now, instead of ringing thebell, she came and looked in at that identical window, pressing theend of her nose against the glass to that extent that my poor dearmother used to say it became perfectly flat and white in a moment.
-- exclaimed Miss Betsey, unconsciously quoting thesecond sentiment of the pin-cushion in the drawer upstairs, butapplying it to my mother instead of me, 'I don't mean that.
-- My mother, contrary to her usual habit, instead of coming to the elbow-chair by the fire, remained at the other end of the room, and sat singing to herself.
-- She took outan old black silk handkerchief and wiped her eyes; but instead ofputting it in her pocket, kept it out, and wiped them again, and stillkept it out, ready for use.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Waiving that point, however, and supposing her to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beau-ty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being ad-mired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.
-- After a little more discourse in praise of gruel, with some wondering at its not being taken every evening by every body, he proceeded to say, with an air of grave reflection, 'It was an awkward business, my dear, your spending the autumn at South End instead of coming here.
-- After an interval of some minutes, however, he began with, 'I shall always be very sorry that you went to the sea this autumn, instead of coming here.'
-- 'But, my dear sir, the difference of the journey; only consider how great it would have been. An hundred miles, perhaps, instead of forty.'
-- Instead of forgetting him, his behaviour was such that she could not avoid the internal suggestion of 'Can it really be as my brother imagined?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He liked saying "Bathsheba" as a private enjoyment instead of whistling; turned over his taste to black hair, though he had sworn by brown ever since he was a boy, isolated himself till the space he filled in the public eye was contemptibly small.
-- "What I meant to tell you was only this," she said eagerly, and yet half conscious of the absurdity of the position she had made for herself "that nobody has got me yet as a sweetheart, instead of my having a dozen, as my aunt said; I hate to be thought men's property in that way, though possibly I shall be had some day.
-- He calculated that he had walked a very fair proportion of the journey; and having been on foot since daybreak, he felt tempted to lie down upon the hay in the waggon instead of pushing on to the village of Weatherbury, and having to pay for a lodging.
-- So, thinking of his misfortunes, amorous and pastoral, he fell asleep, shepherds enjoying, in common with sailors, the privilege of being able to summon the god instead of having to wait for him.
-- A scroll of smoke blew aside and revealed to him a wheat-rick in startling juxtaposition with the decaying one, and behind this a series of others, composing the main corn produce of the farm; so that instead of the straw-stack standing, as he had imagined comparatively isolated, there was a regular connection between it and the remaining stacks of the group.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She would marry again, sell her boarding-house, give her hand to this fine flower of citizenship, become a lady of consequence in the quarter, and ask for subscriptions for charitable purposes; she would make little Sunday excursions to Choisy, Soissy, Gentilly; she would have a box at the theatre when she liked, instead of waiting for the author's tickets that one of her boarders sometimes gave her, in July; the whole Eldorado of a little Parisian household rose up before Mme.
-- "When, instead of dining with the English Ambassador," she wrote, "you go to the Rochefides, you owe me an explanation, which I am waiting to hear."
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