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《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "If you had been born such, would you have been here now?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- HANS IN LUCK ome men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do Scomes right all that falls to them is so much gain all their geese are swans all their cards are trumps toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster.
-- Hans took the stone, and went his way with a light heart: his eyes sparkled for joy, and he said to himself, 'Surely I must have been born in a lucky hour; everything I could want or wish for comes of itself.
-- He now had a little daughter born to him; the child of his first wife was a boy, who was as red as blood and as white as snow.
-- ****** The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859), were born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in the Ger-man state of Hesse.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Although Mr. Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at Banbury in that county, several tombs and monuments of the Gullivers.
-- In choosing persons for all employments, they have more regard to good morals than to great abilities; for, since government is necessary to mankind, they believe, that the common size of human understanding is fitted to some station or other; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age: but they sup-pose truth, justice, temperance, and the like, to be in every man's power; the practice of which virtues, assisted by ex-perience and a good intention, would qualify any man for the service of his country, except where a course of study is required.
-- There was a man born blind, who had several apprentices in his own condition: their employment was to mix colours 225for painters, which their master taught them to distinguish by feeling and smelling.
-- He told me 'that sometimes, though very rarely, a child happened to be born in a family, with a red circular spot in the forehead, directly over the left eye- brow, which was an infallible mark that it should never die.'
-- I cried out, as in a rapture, 'Happy nation, where every child hath at least a chance for being immortal!Happy peo-ple, who enjoy so many living examples of ancient virtue, and have masters ready to instruct them in the wisdom of all former ages!but happiest, beyond all comparison, are those excellent struldbrugs, who, being born exempt from that universal calamity of human nature, have their minds free and disengaged, without the weight and depression of spirits caused by the continual apprehensions of death!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not that a ditch was new to me, for I was born in a ditch.'
-- I was born with inflammation of the lungs, and of everything else, I believe, that was capable of inflammation,' returned Mr. Bounderby.
-- 'I was born in a ditch, and my mother ran away from me.
-- But you must confess that you were born in the lap of luxury, yourself.
-- Come, ma'am, you know you were born in the lap of luxury.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The whole panorama of the world's life before the historic period, seemed to be born over again, and mine was the only human heart that beat in this unpeopled world!There were no more seasons; there were no more climates; the natural heat of the world increased unceasingly, and neutralized that of the great radiant Sun.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But he knew where he was...in the same old place outside, where the born outsiders are.
-- 'Ye must be born again!I believe in the resurrection of the body!Ex-cept a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it shall by no means bring forth.
-- But she was born to wait.
-- But fancy!A Tevershall lad born and bred, and she her la-dyship in Wragby Hall!My word, that was a slap back at the high-and-mighty Chatterleys!
-- Anyhow, after the child was born I left her alone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I myself was born in Belgium.
-- That's right!And to think of a sweet little cherub being born inside the lock!Now ain't it pretty, ain't that something to carry you through it pleasant?
-- 'I am very happy and very thankful to know it,' said the debtor, 'though I little thought once, that ''That a child would be born to you in a place like this?'
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