found是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 建立; 创立; 创办; 使有根据; 铸造; 熔制,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:
-- But the heat grew greater as soon as noon came on, till at last, as he found himself on a 12 Grimms' Fairy Taleswide heath that would take him more than an hour to cross, he began to be so hot and parched that his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth.
-- Hans told him what had happened, how he was dry, and wanted to milk his cow, but found the cow was dry too.
-- They had wandered a long way; and when they looked to see which way they should go home, they found themselves at a loss to know what path to take.
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.
-- By an observation, we found ourselves in the latitude of 30 degrees 2 minutes south.
-- I often let my legs drop, and could feel no bottom; but when I was almost gone, and able to struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth; and by this time the storm was much abated.
-- I was extremely tired, and with that, and the heat of the weather, and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as I left the ship, I found myself much inclined to sleep.
-- I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir: for, as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground; and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The emphasis was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall.
-- They had a little conchological cabinet, and a little metallurgical cabinet, and a little mineralogical cabinet; and the specimens were all arranged and labelled, and the bits of stone and ore looked as though they might have been broken from the parent substances by those tremendously hard instruments their own names; and, to paraphrase the idle legend of Peter Piper, who had never found his way into their nursery, If the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped at more than this, what was it for good gracious goodness' sake, that the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped it!
-- These attributes of Coketown were in the main inseparable from the work by which it was sustained; against them were to be set off, comforts of life which found their way all over the world, and elegancies of life which made, we will not ask how much of the fine lady, who could scarcely bear to hear the place mentioned.
-- She came bounding down again in a great hurry, opened a battered and mangy old hair trunk, found it empty, and looked round with her hands clasped and her face full of terror.
-- Mr. Bounderby being restrained by this mild suggestion, Mr. Gradgrind found an opening for his eminently practical exposition of the subject.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was one of those yellow-leaved volumes now rarely found on stalls, and to me it appeared to possess but little value.
-- His delight was to have found the original work in the Ice landic tongue, which he declared to be one of the most magnificent and yet simple idioms in the world--while at the same time its grammatical combinations were the most varied known to students.
-- This is about the proportion found in most southern languages, the idioms of the north being much more rich in consonants.
-- When our cook wanted to go out to market, or on any other errand, she found the front door locked and the key taken away.
-- Besides, some means would surely be found to keep my uncle back from attempting any such absurd expedition.
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:
-- And afterwards looked rather as if they had lost a shilling and found sixpence.
-- Till the reaction, when he found he had been made ridiculous.
-- He found an opportunity to say to her, as they were light-ing the candles in the hall: 'May I come?'
-- Connie found it impossible to come to her crisis before he had really finished his.
-- At the same time she felt in the pocket of her knitted jacket, and luckily found a sixpence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ever touched the broom, or spread the mats, or rolled them up, or found the draughts, or collected the dominoes, or put my hand to any kind of work?'
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