grown是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 已长成的,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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "You have grown so economical, you will find out how to live on the smell of cooking at last."
-- de Restaud's expression was reserved and chilly, her eyes had grown indifferent, and sedulously avoided meeting those of the unlucky student of law.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become ema-ciated with confinement.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Scarlett, like the rest of the County, could never get used to the way smallMrs. Tarleton bullied her grown sons and laid her riding crop on their backs if the occasion seemed to warrant it.
-- And hesaid, "So you've grown up, Scarlett."
-- Pork, the onlytrained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack andcareless after several years of exposure to Gerald's happy-go-lucky mode of living.
-- She kin sewand fix hair good as a grown pusson."
-- In a space of time but little longer than Scarlett's seventeen years, Atlanta had grown from a single stake driven inthe ground into a thriving small city of ten thousand that was the center of attention for the whole state.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They had been there ever since I could remember, and had grown more than I had.
-- However, they were grown up and had their own way, and they made the most of it.
-- The contention came, after all, to this;--the secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
-- You and I and Joe would have wanted nothing then, and Joe and I would perhaps have gone partners when I was out of my time, and I might even have grown up to keep company with you, and we might have sat on this very bank on a fine Sunday, quite different people.
-- So successful a watch and ward had been established over the young lady by this judicious parent, that she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 27OLD SULTAN shepherd had a faithful dog, called Sultan, who was A grown very old, and had lost all his teeth.
-- 132 Grimms' Fairy Tales THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM here was once a miller who had one beautiful daugh-Tter, and as she was grown up, he was anxious that she should be well married and provided for.
-- They found the ashes scattered by the wind, but the peas and lentils had sprouted, and grown sufficiently above the ground, to guide them in the moonlight along the path.
-- 137 The bridegroom, who during this recital had grown dead-ly pale, up and tried to escape, but the guests seized him and held him fast.
-- And when she had grown up her fa- ther said: 'We will get her married.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I showed him a corn that I had cut off with my own hand, from a maid of honour's toe; it was about the bigness of Kentish pippin, and grown so hard, that when I returned England, I got it hollowed into a cup, and set in silver.
-- I was surprised to find corruption grown so high and so quick in that empire, by the force of luxury so lately intro-duced; which made me less wonder at many parallel cases in other countries, where vices of all kinds have reigned so much longer, and where the whole praise, as well as pillage, has been engrossed by the chief commander, who perhaps had the least title to either.
-- I left my poor wife big with child, and accepted an advantageous offer made me to be captain of the Adventurer, a stout merchantman of 350 tons: for I understood navigation well, and being grown weary of a surgeon's employment at sea, which, however, I could exercise upon occasion, I took a skilful young man of that calling, one Robert Purefoy, into my ship.
-- Now your honour is to know, that these judges are persons appointed to decide all controversies of proper-ty, as well as for the trial of criminals, and picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy; and having been biassed all their lives against truth and equity, lie under such a fatal necessity of favouring fraud, perju-ry, and oppression, that I have known some of them refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty, by doing any thing unbecoming their na-ture or their office.
-- 'They are likewise of special use to husbands and wives who are grown weary of their mates; to eldest sons, to great ministers of state, and often to princes.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.
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