round是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 圆的prep. 围绕ad. 在周围v. 绕行n. (一) 回合,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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I got up out of my cabin and looked out; but such a dismal sight I never saw: the sea ran mountains high, and broke upon us every three or four minutes; when I could look about, I could see nothing but distress round us; two ships that rode near us, we found, had cut their masts by the board, being deep laden; and our men cried out that a ship which rode about a mile ahead of us was foundered.
-- I found him by his blood staining the water; and by the help of a rope, which I slung round him, and gave the negroes to haul, they dragged him on shore, and found that it was a most curious leopard, spotted, and fine to an admirable degree; and the negroes held up their hands with admiration, to think what it was I had killed him with.
-- I cast my eye to the stranded vessel, when, the breach and froth of the sea being so big, I could hardly see it, it lay so far of; and considered, Lord!how was it possible I could get on shore After I had solaced my mind with the comfortable part of my condition, I began to look round me, to see what kind of place I was in, and what was next to be done; and I soon found my comforts abate, and that, in a word, I had a dread-ful deliverance; for I was wet, had no clothes to shift me, nor anything either to eat or drink to comfort me; neither did I see any prospect before me but that of perishing with hun-ger or being devoured by wild beasts; and that which was particularly afflicting to me was, that I had no weapon, -either to hunt and kill any creature for my sustenance, or to defend myself against any other creature that might desire to kill me for theirs.
-- I swam round her twice, and the second time I spied a small piece of rope, which I wondered I did not see at first, hung down by the fore-chains so low, as that with great difficulty I got hold of it, and by the help of that rope I got up into the forecastle of the ship.
-- However, as well as I could, I barricaded myself round with the chest and boards that I had brought on shore, and made a kind of hut for that night's lodging.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A gentleman carrying a gun, with two pointers playing round him, was passing up the hill and within a few yards of Marianne, when her accident happened.
-- "You have said so," replied Elinor, "almost every day since they first met on High-church Down; and they had not known each other a week, I believe, before you were certain that Marianne wore his picture round her neck; but it turned out to be only the miniature of our great uncle."
-- He turned round on their coming in, and his countenance shewed that he strongly partook of the emotion which over-powered Marianne.
-- Marianne looked again; her heart sunk within her; and abruptly turning round, she was hurrying back, when the voices of both her sisters were raised to detain her; a third, almost as well known as Willoughby's, joined them in begging her to stop, and she turned round with surprise to see and welcome Edward Ferrars.
-- said she, when dinner was over and they had drawn round the fire; "are you still to be a great orator in spite of yourself?"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She realised that hers was not to be a round of pleasure, and yet there was something promising in all the material prospect he set forth.
-- No round of amusement.
-- Minnie's manner was one of trained industry, and Carrie could see that it was a steady round of toil with her.
-- She read from the manner of Hanson, in the subdued air of Minnie, and, indeed, the whole atmosphere of the flat, a settled opposition to anything save a conservative round of toil.
-- Before following her in her round of seeking, let us look at the sphere in which her future was to lie.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round more than a body could tell what to do with.
-- Jim always kept that five-center piece round his neck with a string, and said it was a charm the devil give to him with his own hands, and told him he could cure anybody with it and fetch witches when-ever he wanted to just by saying some- thing to it; but he never told what it was he said to it.
-- Here's what the law does: The law takes a man worth six thousand dollars and up'ards, and jams him into an old trap of a cabin like this, and lets him go round in clothes that ain't fitten for a hog.
-- He started and run round and round the cabin, hollering 'Take him off!take him off!he's biting me on the neck!'
-- He chased me round and round the place with a clasp- knife, calling me the Angel of Death, and saying he would kill me, and then I couldn't come for him no more.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His real name was Mastro Antonio, but everyone called him Mastro Cherry, for the tip of his nose was so round and red and shiny that it looked like a ripe cherry.
-- Suddenly, he saw, among the sweepings in a corner, something round and white that looked very much like a hen's egg.
-- Round about him, not a leaf stirred.
-- Imagine to yourselves a little, fat man, much wider than he was long, round and shiny as a ball of butter, with a face beaming like an apple, a little mouth that always smiled, and a voice small and wheedling like that of a cat begging for food.
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