born是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 出生的, 产生的; 天生的, 十足的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk, or 'thereby,' as they say inScotland.
-- She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always beenconvinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on aFriday.
-- When we got into the street (which was strange enough to me), andsmelt the fish, and pitch, and oakum, and tar, and saw the sailorswalking about, and the carts jingling up and down over the stones, 35I felt that I had done so busy a place an injustice; and said as muchto Peggotty, who heard my expressions of delight with greatcomplacency, and told me it was well known (I suppose to thosewho had the good fortune to be born Bloaters) that Yarmouth was,upon the whole, the finest place in the universe.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter IIMr. Weston was a native of Highbury, and born of a re-spectable family, which for the last two or three generations had been rising into gentility and property.
-- 'Well, and that is as early as most men can afford to marry, who are not born to an independence.
-- Such talent as hers must not be suf-fered to remain unknown. I dare say you have heard those charming lines of the poet, 'Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, 'And waste its fragrance on the desert air.'
-- She is poor; she has sunk from the comforts she was born to; and, if she live to old age, must probably sink more.
-- The child to be born at Randalls must be a tie there even dearer than herself; and Mrs. Weston's heart and time would be occupied by it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The maltster cleared his throat in an exaggerated form for emphasis, and elongating his gaze to the remotest point of the ashpit, said, in the slow speech justifiable when the importance of a subject is so generally felt that any mannerism must be tolerated in getting at it, "Well, I don't mind the year I were born in, but perhaps I can reckon up the places I've lived at, and so get it that way.
-- "But we be born to things that's true.
-- "But I've never changed a single doctrine: I've stuck like a plaster to the old faith I was born in.
-- Anybody married or engaged, born or dead?"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I, their eldest child, was born at Naples, and as an infant accom-panied them in their rambles.
-- The young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced.
-- And when time 234 Frankensteinshall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on theporch were neither slack nor soft.
-- But the planters' ladies and the planters' slaves could not overlook the fact that he was not born agentleman, even if their men folks could.
-- Most Southerners were born with guns intheir hands, and lives spent in hunting had made marksmen of them all.
-- Instinct stronger than reasonand knowledge born of experience told her that he loved her.
-- For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly coloreddreams that had in them no touch of reality.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine,--who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,--I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.
-- I may truly say I've never had this apron of mine off since born you were.
-- I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends.
-- If you'd been born a Squeaker--""He was, if ever a child was," said my sister, most emphatically.
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