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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Daylight found the vicar and his wife, a quaintly-costumed little couple, still marvelling about on their own ground floor by the unnecessary light of a guttering candle.
-- They had hardly entered the cellar when Mrs. Hall found she had forgotten to bring down a bottle of sarsaparilla from their joint-room.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The following narrative was found among his papers by the undersigned, his nephew and heir, but unaccompanied by any definite request for publication.
-- A party of sailors then landed, but found nothing living thereon except certain curious white moths, some hogs and rabbits, and some rather peculiar rats.
-- It never entered my head to attempt to attract attention, and I do not remember anything distinctly after the sight of her side until I found myself in a little cabin aft.
-- THE MAN WHO WAS GOING NOWHERE HE cabin in which I found myself was small and rather Tuntidy.
-- E left the cabin and found a man at the companion Wobstructing our way.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily.
-- He found a branch that satisfied him, and in the evening when Tabaqui came to the cave and told him rudely enough that he was wanted at the Council Rock, he laughed till Tabaqui ran away.
-- And a wolf stole back, and a wolf stole back To carry the word to the waiting pack, And we sought and we found and we bayed on his track Once, twice and again!
-- But whenever they found a sick wolf, or a wounded tiger, or bear, the monkeys would torment him, and would throw sticks and nuts at any beast for fun and in the hope of being noticed.
-- They found him stretched out on a warm ledge in the afternoon sun, admiring his beautiful new coat, for he had been in retirement for the last ten days changing his skin, and now he was very splendid darting his big blunt-nosed head along the ground, and twisting the thirty feet of his body into fantastic knots and curves, and licking his lips as he thought of his dinner to come.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Receiving no reply to this extraordinary appeal, which in truth, as it was delivered with the vigor of full and so-norous tones, merited some sort of notice, he who had thus sung forth the language of the holy book turned to the si-lent figure to whom he had unwittingly addressed himself, and found a new and more powerful subject of admiration in the object that encountered his gaze.
-- On the con-trary, there was an air of neglect about his person, like that which might have proceeded from great and recent exer-tion, which he had not yet found leisure to repair.
-- 'If enemies have reached the portage at all, a thing by no means probable, as our scouts are abroad, they will surely be found skirting the column, where scalps abound the most.
-- The Dutch landed, and gave my people the fire-water; they drank until the heavens and the earth seemed to meet, and they foolishly thought they had found the Great Spirit.
-- But where are to be found those of your race who came to their kin in the Delaware country, so many summers since?'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Found among the papers of the late Diedrech Knickerbock-er.
-- I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that popula-tion, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless coun-try, sweeps by them unobserved.
-- He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest; and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnan-imously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours to-gether.
-- Ichahod Crane had a soft and foolish heart towards the sex; and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a mor-sel soon found favor in his eyes, more especially after he had visited her in her paternal mansion.
-- It was toward evening that Ichabod arrived at the cas-tle of the Heer Van Tassel, which he found thronged with the pride and flower of the adjacent country Old farmers, a spare leathern- faced race, in homespun coats and breeches, blue stockings, huge shoes, and magnificent pewter buck-les.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness.
-- I think he must have read the verse of these young men who were making so great a stir in the world, and I fancy he found it poor stuff.
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