woe是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 悲哀, 悲痛, 苦恼,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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thetis wept and answered, 'My son, woe is me that I should have borne or suckled you.
-- There are no longer divided counsels among the gods; Juno has brought them to her own mind, and woe betides the Trojans.'
-- There are no longer divided counsels among the gods; Juno has brought them over to her own mind, and woe betides the Trojans at the hands of Jove.
-- There are no longer divided counsels among the gods; Juno has brought them over to her own mind, and woe betides the Trojans at the hands of Jove.
-- Woe to those fathers whose sons face my might.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Woe be to him who breaks the Law!'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Woe betide the wretch who is born to behold this plain, with the judgment hanging about his soul!Ha as I am a man of white blood, yonder lies a red-skin, without the hair of his head where nature rooted it!Look to him, Delaware; it may be one of your missing people; and he should have burial like a stout warrior.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His garb of woe suggested that he had lost in one catastrophe every relation he had in the world, even to cousins by marriage twice removed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And woe to the insects which dared to venture there!No mercy was shown them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If you're not sharp enough, I'll creak the door, and woe betide you if I have to creak it much.
-- Woe betide you if you fail to do it, or disobey me by a hair's breadth.
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