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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I think I must be one of those who are born to be in luck, for one does not of-ten meet with people whom one feels he can love from the first sight of their faces; and yet, no sooner do I step out of the railway carriage than I happen upon you!
-- P 's son, born after his mother's marriage, found a true father in the generous man whose name he bore.
-- You will not deny, seriously, that you were born just two years af- ter your mother's legal marriage to Mr. Burdovsky, your father.
-- In a word he had been driven about from office to office for five months and had spent every- farthing he had; his wife's last rags had just been pawned; and meanwhile a child had been born to them and and today I have a final refusal to my petition, and I have hardly acrumb of bread left I have nothing left; my wife has had a baby lately and I-I ' 'He sprang up from his chair and turned away.
-- He seemed to have been born with overwrought nerves, and in his passionate desire to excel, he was often led to the brink of some rash step; and yet, having resolved upon such a step, when the moment arrived, he invariably proved too sensible to take it.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Two generations of men born and bred in Pylos had passed away under his rule, and he was now reigning over the third.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Born to the prospect of such affluence!I cannot conceive a situation more deplorable.
-- Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate.
-- She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.
-- She was born to overcome an affection formed so late in life as at seventeen, and with no sentiment superior to strong esteem and lively friendship, voluntarily to give her hand to another! and THAT other, a man who had suffered no less than herself under the event of a former attachment, whom, two years before, she had considered too old to be married, and who still sought the constitutional safeguard of a flannel waistcoat!
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her maidenly reserve, and a certain sense of what was conventional under the circumstances, called her to forestall and deny this familiarity, but the daring and magnetism of the individual, born of past experiences and triumphs, prevailed.
-- We see him aligned by nature with the forces of life--he is born into their keeping and without thought he is protected.
-- She was pretty, graceful, rich in the timidity born of uncertainty, and with a something childlike in her large eyes which captured the fancy of this starched and conventional poser among men.
-- Already she was moving forward with a steady grace, born of inspiration.
-- "If you do as well in the rest of the play, you will make us all think you are a born actress."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They was as high-toned and well born and rich and grand as the tribe of Grangerfords.
-- It ain't my fault I warn't born a duke, it ain't your fault you warn't born a king so what's the use to worry?
-- It seemed like he was just born for it; and when he had his hand in and was ex-cited, it was perfectly lovely the way he would rip and tear and rair up behind when he was getting it off.
-- I know you clear through was born and raised in the South, and I've lived in the North; so I know the average all around.
-- The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with cour- age that's bor-rowed from their mass, and from their officers.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I understand," said Pinocchio at once wearily, "this is no place for me!I was not born for work."
-- They are born Marionettes, they live Marionettes, and they die Marionettes."
-- "Neither do I," said the Tunny, "but I am wise enough to think that if one is born a fish, it is more dignified to die under the water than in the frying pan."
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