admit是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 承认, 供认; 准许…进入, 准许…加入,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:
-- I was obliged to admit that I did know it for a certainty, and I said to myself, "Pip, what a fool you are!"
-- I had pretended with myself that there was nothing of this taint in the arrangement; but when I went up to my little room on this last night, I felt compelled to admit that it might be so, and had an impulse upon me to go down again and entreat Joe to walk with me in the morning.
-- She reserved it for me to restore the desolate house, admit the sunshine into the dark rooms, set the clocks a-going and the cold hearths a-blazing, tear down the cobwebs, destroy the vermin,--in short, do all the shining deeds of the young Knight of romance, and marry the Princess.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I sometimes thought of standing my trial, for, although I could not deny the facts alleged in the several articles, yet I hoped they would admit of some extenuation.
-- However, since the king was pleased to allow me access to his royal person, I was resolved, upon the very first occasion, to deliver my opinion to him on this matter freely and at large, by the help of my interpreter; and whether he would please to take my advice or not, yet in one thing I was determined, that his majesty having frequently offered me an establishment in this country, I would, with great thankfulness, accept the favour, and pass my life here in the conversation of those superior beings the struldbrugs, if they would please to admit me.'
-- He thought his ears, being used to such abominable words, might, by degrees, admit them with less detestation: that although he hated the Ya-hoos of this country, yet he no more blamed them for their odious qualities, than he did a gnnayh (a bird of prey) for its cruelty, or a sharp stone for cutting his hoof.
-- He said, 'those animals, like other brutes, had their females in common; but in this they differed, that the she Yahoo would admit the males while she was pregnant; and that the hes would quarrel and fight with the females, as fiercely as with each other; both which practices were such degrees of infamous brutality, as no other sensitive creature ever arrived at.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I freely admit it.
-- Mrs. Sparsit's talent for in fact for anything requiring accuracy with a combination of strength of mind and Family is too habitually developed to admit of any question.'
-- It may not be all-sufficient; how can I venture this morning to say it is!If that other kind of wisdom should be what I have neglected, and should be the instinct that is wanted, Louisa 'He suggested it very doubtfully, as if he were half unwilling to admit it even now.
-- 'Sir,' whispered Mrs. Sparsit, 'my nerves are at present too much shaken, and my health is at present too much impaired, in your service, to admit of my doing more than taking refuge in tears.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nevertheless, it was impossible not to admit that these fissures must now be nearly choked up, for if not, the cavern, or rather the immense and stupendous reservoir, would have been completely filled in a short space of time.
-- This learned man, who holds such a high place in the scientific world, holds that the soil of Moulin-Quignon does not belong to the diluvium but to a much less ancient stratum, and, in accordance with Cuvier in this respect, he would by no means admit that the human species was contemporary with the animals of the Quaternary epoch.
-- I am rather inclined to admit the existence of some animal resembling in structure the human race--of some monkey of the first geological epoc hs, like that discovered by M. Lartet in the ossiferous deposit of Sansan.
-- So enraged was I that I would not admit the reality of any obstacle.
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:
-- He'd been a clever boy, had a scholar-ship for Sheffield Grammar School, and learned French and things: and then after all had become an overhead black-smith shoeing horses, because he was fond of horses, he said: but really because he was frightened to go out and face the world, only he'd never admit it.
-- And it was strange, how free and full of life it made her feel, to hate him and to admit it fully to herself. 'Now I've hated him, I shall never be able to go on living with him,' came the thought into her mind.
-- Even, she was sure, Sir Clifford was inwardly absolutely aware of it, only he wouldn't admit it to himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The bars were wide enough apart to admit of his thrusting his arm through to the elbow; and so he held on negligently, for his greater ease.
-- I admit that I was poor; I had been ill.
-- I admit it.
-- 'I admit that I was accessory to that man's captivity.
-- 'Better admit motive to be good.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but sorry guard.
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