gorgeous是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 令人十分愉快的, 极好的; 华丽的, 灿烂的, 绚丽的,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It took four men, all four ablaze with gorgeous dec-oration, and the Chief of them unable to exist with fewer than two gold watches in his pocket, emulative of the no-ble and chaste fashion set by Monseigneur, to conduct the happy chocolate to Monseigneur's lips.
-- Shortly, this worn-out murderer descried in the imperfect light one of the carriages of Monseigneur, and, staggering to that gorgeous vehicle, climbed in at the door, and shut himself up to take his rest on its dainty cush-ions.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A police officer, regardless of the frost, stood at the entrance, gorgeous in his uniform.
-- Darya Alexandrovna's eyes were fairly dazzled by the elegant carriage of a pattern she had never seen before, the splendid horses, and the elegant and gorgeous people surrounding her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pepper plants replaced the prickly hedges of European fields; sago-bushes, large ferns with gorgeous branches, varied the aspect of this tropical clime; while nutmeg-trees in full foliage filled the air with a penetrating perfume.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And he plays the slickest--the most gorgeous game of tennis.
-- And at infrequent times he perceived the comedy of life; relaxed for a gorgeous hour from the intensity wearing to his admirers.
-- After the Klopchuk affair, Martin and Leora encountered Clay Tredgold and that gorgeous slim woman, his wife, in front of a motion-picture theater.
-- He found the remains of the original pus, made a smear on a glass slide, and stained it with gentian-violet, nervously dribbling out one drop of the gorgeous dye.
-- The dining-room was gorgeous and very hideous, in stamped leather and hysterias of gold, with collections of servants watching one's use of asparagus forks.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Heruvimov is going to bring out this work as a contribution to the woman question; I am trans-lating it; he will expand these two and a half signatures into six, we shall make up a gorgeous title half a page long and bring it out at half a rouble.
-- It left him strangely cold; this gorgeous picture was for him blank and lifeless.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Dog-star and Aldebaran, pointing to the restless Pleiades, were half-way up the Southern sky, and between them hung Orion, which gorgeous constellation never burnt more vividly than now, as it soared forth above the rim of the landscape.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Goriot had brought with him a considerable wardrobe, the gorgeous outfit of a retired tradesman who denies himself nothing.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "And you look gorgeous when you are mad.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Queen of Denmark, a very buxom lady, though no doubt historically brazen, was considered by the public to have too much brass about her; her chin being attached to her diadem by a broad band of that metal (as if she had a gorgeous toothache), her waist being encircled by another, and each of her arms by another, so that she was openly mentioned as "the kettle-drum."
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:
-- There was a gorgeous talk on Sunday evening, when the conversation drifted again to love.
-- Stacks Gate, as seen from the highroad, was just a huge and gorgeous new hotel, the Coningsby Arms, standing red and white and gilt in barbarous isolation off the road.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The farewell banquet was of a gorgeous nature, and wound up his visit in a most brilliant manner.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Very clever were some of their productions, pasteboard guitars, antique lamps made of old-fashioned butter boats covered with silver paper, gorgeous robes of old cotton, glittering with tin spangles from a pickle factory, and armor covered with the same useful diamond shaped bits left inn sheets when the lids of preserve pots were cut out.
-- He came in gorgeous array, with plumed cap, red cloak, chestnut lovelocks, a guitar, and the boots, of course.
-- But in spite of the comical red imps, sparkling elves, and the gorgeous princes and princesses, Jo's pleasure had a drop of bitterness in it.
-- Every one of us, but Beth, wants to be rich and famous, and gorgeous in every respect.
-- Such sights as I saw, my dear!It was as good as Punch, for there were fat dowagers rolling about in their red and yel-low coaches, with gorgeous Jeameses in silk stockings and velvet coats, up behind, and powdered coachmen in front.
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