safe是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 安全的, 牢靠的; 谨慎的, 可靠的n. 保险箱,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I have been in a mouse-hole and in a snail-shell and down a cow's throat and in the wolf's belly; and yet here I am again, safe and sound.'
-- They ate the dry bread together; and Frederick said, 'Kate, I hope you locked the door safe when you came away.'
-- When she reached home, she bolted the back door, but the front door she took off the hinges, and said, 'Frederick told me to lock the door, but surely it can nowhere be so safe if I take it with me.'
-- So when Frederick and Catherine came down, there they found all their money safe and sound.
-- And the prince said, 'Thou art quite safe with me.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput; is made a prisoner, and carried up the country.
-- '5th, If an express requires extraordinary despatch, the man- mountain shall be obliged to carry, in his pocket, the messenger and horse a six days journey, once in every moon, and return the said messenger back (if so required) safe to our imperial presence.
-- I then took off my spectacles, and waiting about an hour, till the tide was a little fallen, I waded through the middle with my cargo, and arrived safe at the royal port of Lilliput.
-- 87Chapter VIII The author, by a lucky accident, finds means to leave Blefuscu; and, after some difficulties, returns safe to his native country.
-- The rest of my cattle I got safe ashore, and set them a-grazing in a bowling-green at Greenwich, where the fineness of the grass made them feed very heartily, though I had always feared the contrary: neither could I possibly have preserved them in so long a voyage, if the captain had not allowed me some of his best biscuit, which, rubbed to powder, and mingled with water, was their constant food.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had grown into an extremely clear-headed, cautious, prudent young man, who was safe to rise in the world.
-- He was not so honest, he was not so manly, he was not so good-humoured; he substituted cunning for their simplicity, and passion for their safe solid sense.
-- Rachael will coom then; and arterwards I'll see thee safe t' thy Travellers' lodgin.
-- In the little safe in young Tom's closet, the safe used for petty purposes, there was a hundred and fifty odd pound.'
-- 'I forced the safe myself over night, and shut it up ajar before I went away.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Here it is, safe and sound!"
-- I should therefore have plenty of time to reach the raft and put off to a safe distance.
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:
-- Sir Geoffrey, Clifford's father, was intensely ridiculous, chopping down his trees, and weeding men out of his colliery to shove them into the war; and himself being so safe and patriotic; but, also, spending more money on his country than he'd got.
-- A man needed to have an anchor in the safe world.
-- When Sir Geoffrey made a trust of himself and got the money safe for ever, somehow.
-- There he crouched in silence, looking carefully at everything, then carefully shutting the hens and chicks up safe against the night.
-- Clifford hated her going, but it was only because he didn't feel SAFE in her absence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He stooped a good deal, and plodded along in a slow pre-occupied manner, which made the bustling London thoroughfares no very safe resort for him.
-- They bore the trying spectacle in silence, until the mysterious visitor was at a safe distance; when they burst into pebbles and yells, and likewise into reviling dances, and in all respects buried the pipe of peace with so many savage ceremonies, that, if Mr Cripples had been the chief of the Cripplewayboo tribe with his war-paint on, they could scarcely have done greater justice to their education.
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