extraordinary是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 非常的; 格外的; 意外的; 离奇的; 临时的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With a large allowance for difference of tastes, and with all submission to the patricians of Coketown, this seemed so extraordinary a source of interest to take so much trouble about, that it perplexed him.
-- He had wormed a finger, in the darkness, through a button-hole of Stephen's coat, and was screwing that corner of the garment tight up round and round, in an extraordinary manner.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was about five inches by three and was scrawled over in the mos t extraordinary fashion.
-- This appears an extraordinary combination.
-- Hence the name applied to every volcano on this extraordinary island."
-- Hans, our extraordinary guide, went first, walking with a steady, rapid, unvarying step.
-- Beyond the extraordinary basaltic wall of the fjord of Stapi we found ourselves making our way through fibrous turf, over which grew a scanty vegetation of grass, the residuum of the ancient vegetation of the swampy peninsula.
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:
-- The observation was extraordinary and pecu-liar.
-- Connie really wondered at this queer, melancholy speci-men of extraordinary success; it was said he had an income of fifty thousand dollars from America alone.
-- How extraordinary it was!How extraordi-nary he was, bent there over the book, queer and rapacious and civilized, with broad shoulders and no real legs!What a strange creature, with the sharp, cold inflexible will of some bird, and no warmth, no warmth at all!One of those creatures of the afterwards, that have no soul, but an extra-alert will, cold will.
-- 'Oh, exactly!And what has caused this extraordinary change in you?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'It's extraordinary to me if you'll excuse my freedom in saying so that you don't go straight to London,' said Mr Meagles, in the tone of a confidential adviser.
-- She had an extraordinary repugnance to dining in company; would never do so, if it were possible to escape.
-- It strikes me as rather extraordinary that you should come, with such an object, to me.'
-- 'It may be all extraordinary together,' returned Pancks.
-- They walked up the street on one side of the way, and down it on the other, what time two vociferous news-sellers, announcing an extraordinary event that had never happened and never would happen, pitched their hoarse voices into the secret chambers; but nothing came of it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, I had never been in the South Seas; and perhaps the sun there produced these extraordinary effects upon the skin.
-- said the mate, astonished at an order seldom or never given on ship-board except in some extraordinary case.
-- Considering that with two legs man is but a hobbling wight in all times of danger; considering that the pursuit of whales is always under great and extraordinary difficulties; that every individual moment, indeed, then comprises a peril; under these circumstances is it wise for any maimed man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt?
-- It may be but an idle whim, but it has always seemed to me, that the extraordinary vacillations of movement displayed by some whales when beset by three or four boats; the timidity and liability to queer frights, so common to such whales; I think that all this indirectly proceeds from the helpless perplexity of volition, in which their divided and diametrically opposite powers of vision must involve them.
-- Not so with the whale; one of whose peculiarities it is to have an entire non-valvular structure of the blood-vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to pour from him in incessant streams.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It cannot be expected that this system of farming would produce any very extraordinary or luxuriant crop.
-- At last, the Dodger trod upon his toes, or ran upon his boot accidently, while Charley Bates stumbled up against him behind; and in that one moment they took from him, with the most extraordinary rapidity, snuff-box, note-case, watch-guard, chain, shirt-pin, pocket-handkerchief, even the spectacle-case.
-- Oliver got through it with extraordinary expedition.
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