hook是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 钩, 吊钩, 钩状物v. 钩住,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In obedience to the captain's orders, the sailors threw a strong rope over the starboard side of the yacht, with a big hook at the end of it, concealed in a thick lump of bacon.
-- The hook had fixed right in the stomach, which was found to be absolutely empty, and the disappointed sailors were just going to throw the remains overboard, when the boatswain's attention was attracted by some large object sticking fast in one of the viscera.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The prince has simply caught her with hook and line; firstly, because he never thought of fishing for her, and secondly, because he is an idiot in the eyes of most people.
-- He would take up a hook from the table and open it talking all the while, look at the heading of a chapter, shut it and put it back again, seizing another immediately, but holding it unopened in his hand, and waving it in the air as he spoke.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Patroclus went up to him and drove a spear into his right jaw; he thus hooked him by the teeth and the spear pulled him over the rim of his car, as one who sits at the end of some jutting rock and draws a strong fish out of the sea with a hook and a line even so with his spear did he pull Thestor all gaping from his char-iot; he then threw him down on his face and he died while falling.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that -ingenious way which is commonly denominated 'by hook and by crook,' the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of the la-bor of headwork, to have a wonderfully easy life of it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- While they were thus employed, a tallish gentleman with a hook nose and black hair, dressed in a military surtout very short and tight in the sleeves, and which had once been frogged and braided all over, but was now sadly shorn of its garniture and quite threadbare dressed too in ancient grey pantaloons fitting tight to the leg, and a pair of pumps in the winter of their existence looked in at the door and smiled affably.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- An iron ladder, fastened with an iron hook to the partition, led to the upper end.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The hook was soldered into the staple: a circumstance observed by me when awake, but forgotten.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward.
-- What am I that I should essay to hook the nose of this leviathan!The awful tauntings in Job might well appal me.
-- Whisper it not, and I will tell; with a treacherous hook and line, as the fowl floated on the sea.
-- When reaching far over the bow, Stubb slowly churned his long sharp lance into the fish, and kept it there, carefully churning and churning, as if cautiously seeking to feel after some gold watch that the whale might have swallowed, and which he was fearful of breaking ere he could hook it out.
-- And now suspended in stages over the side, Starbuck and Stubb, the mates, armed with their long spades, began cutting a hole in the body for the insertion of the hook just above the nearest of the two side-fins.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It appears, at first sight not unreasonable to suppose, that, if he had entertained a becoming feeling of respect for the prediction of the gentleman in the white waistcoat, he would have established that sage individual's prophetic character, once and for ever, by tying one end of his pocket-handkerchief to a hook in the wall, and attaching himself to the other.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After we had fished some time and caught nothing - for when I had fish on my hook I would not pull them up, that he might not see them - I said to the Moor, 'This will not do; our master will not be thus served; we must stand far-ther off.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "It's no easy thing to go on your own hook here."
-- A Mr. Withers-- whom she did not know from Adam--having learned by some hook or crook where she resided, bowed himself politely in.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But answer me only jest this one more now DON'T git mad; didn't you have it in your mind to hook the money and hide it?'
-- You slide in, in the middle of the night, and hook that yaller girl's frock.'
-- I'll hook a gown from Aunt Sally.'
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