become是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vi. 变成, 开始变得vt. 适合, 同…相称,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:
-- Then the princess was so thirsty that she got off her horse, and lay down, and held her head over the run-ning stream, and cried and said, 'What will become of me?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new- fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remem-ber upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.
-- I desired the secretary to present my humble duty to the emperor; and to let him know, 'that I thought it would not become me, who was a foreigner, to interfere with parties; but I was ready, with the hazard of my life, to defend his person and state against all invaders.'
-- And your friend the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected, concerning the great charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said, that his excellency, who had the sole disposal of the em-peror's revenue, might easily provide against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently, decay, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of your carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more than half diminished; and immediately upon your death five or six thousand of his majesty's subjects might, in two or three days, cut your flesh from your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to pos-terity.
-- It is the custom, that every Wednesday (which, as I have observed, is their Sabbath) the king and queen, with the roy-128 Gulliver's Travelsal issue of both sexes, dine together in the apartment of his majesty, to whom I was now become a great favourite; and at these times, my little chair and table were placed at his left hand, before one of the salt- cellars.
-- I believe it was near a minute before any one knew what was become of me; for I thought it below me to cry out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was a child now, of fifteen or sixteen; but at no distant day would seem to become a woman all at once.
-- At about this point, Mr. Gradgrind's eye would fall upon her; and under the influence of that wintry piece of fact, she would become torpid again.
-- It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else's thorns in addition to his own.
-- Somehow or other, he had become possessed by an idea that there was something in this girl which could hardly be set forth in a tabular form.
-- So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the things it looks upon to bless.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Surely Professor Hardwigg did not intend the old woman and myself to become martyrs to his obstinate will.
-- What would become of us?"
-- He moves so little that it is impossible for him to become fatigued.
-- "If he does wake what is to become of us?"
-- The barometer, in fact, was about to become useless--as soon as the weight of the air was greater than what was calculated as above the level of the ocean.
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:
-- Now he had become a first lieutenant in a smart regiment, so he could mock at everything more becomingly in uniform.
-- Connie wondered a little over Clifford's blind, imperious instinct to become known: known, that is, to the vast amor-phous world he did not himself know, and of which he was uneasily afraid; known as a writer, as a first-class modern writer.
-- With his uncanny lame instinct for pub-licity, he had become in four or five years one of the best known of the young 'intellectuals'.
-- The worst of it was, Clifford tended to become vague, ab-sent, and to fall into fits of vacant depression.
-- Ravished by dead words become obscene, and dead ideas become obsessions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Everything in Marseilles, and about Marseilles, had stared at the fervid sky, and been stared at in return, until a staring habit had become universal there.
-- When your lawyers, your politicians, your intriguers, your men of the Exchange fall ill, and have not scraped money together, they become poor.
-- Quarrels began to arise between us; and, propagated and exaggerated by the slanders of the relations of Madame Rigaud, to become notorious to the neighbours.
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