bent是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 爱好, 癖好,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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such handsome men, thought Scarlett, with a swell of pride in her heart, as the men called greetings, waved tofriends, bent low over the hands of elderly ladies.
-- Scarlett bent her head over the blurred lists,reading rapidly, to find names of friends.
-- She cast a quick glance at the slight figure with blushing face bent overthe sewing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The last I saw of him, his head was bent over his knee and he was working hard at his fetter, muttering impatient imprecations at it and at his leg.
-- Joe scooped his eyes with his disengaged wrist, as if he were bent on gouging himself, but said not another word.
-- "My dear sir," said Mr. Trabb, as he respectfully bent his body, opened his arms, and took the liberty of touching me on the outside of each elbow, "don't hurt me by mentioning that.
-- Mr. Trabb then bent over number four, and in a sort of deferential confidence recommended it to me as a light article for summer wear, an article much in vogue among the nobility and gentry, an article that it would ever be an honor to him to reflect upon a distinguished fellow-townsman's (if he might claim me for a fellow-townsman) having worn.
-- Mr. Jaggers never laughed; but he wore great bright creaking boots, and, in poising himself on these boots, with his large head bent down and his eyebrows joined together, awaiting an answer, he sometimes caused the boots to creak, as if they laughed in a dry and suspicious way.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The old man tried to hinder him, but he was bent upon going.
-- They went on together, and as they passed a cherry-tree, the giant laid hold of the top of the tree where the ripest fruit was hanging, bent it down, gave it into the tailor's hand, and bade him eat.
-- 'You need not concern yourself about that,' an-swered the tailor, 'they have not bent one hair of mine.'
-- And as he bent over to do so, the evil spirit urged her, and crash!
-- He led him into the king's cellar, and the man bent over the huge barrels, and drank and drank till his loins hurt, and before the day was out he had emptied all the barrels.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And from this time began an intrigue between his majes-ty and a junto of ministers, maliciously bent against me, which broke out in less than two months, and had like to have ended in my utter destruction.
-- Once I was strongly bent upon resistance, for, while I had liberty the whole strength of that empire could hardly subdue me, and I might easily with stones pelt the metropolis to pieces; but I soon rejected that project with horror, by remembering the oath I had made to the emperor, the favours I received from him, and the high title of nardac he conferred upon me.
-- How it came to pass, that people were so violently bent upon getting into this assembly, which I allowed to be a great trouble and ex-160 Gulliver's Travelspense, often to the ruin of their families, without any salary or pension?
-- He was strongly bent to get me a woman of my own size, by whom I might propagate the breed: but I think I should rather have died than undergone the disgrace of leaving a posterity to be kept in cages, like tame canary-birds, and perhaps, in time, sold about the kingdom, to persons of quality, for curiosi-ties.
-- When I came to my own house, for which I was forced to inquire, one of the servants opening the door, I bent down to go in, (like a goose under a gate,) for fear of striking my head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then they pressed about her, and bent over her in very natural attitudes, kissing and embracing her: and brought the children to take leave of her; and were a tender-hearted, simple, foolish set of women altogether.
-- Mrs. Sparsit took a little more tea; and, as she bent her again contracted eyebrows over her steaming cup, rather looked as if her classical countenance were invoking the infernal gods.
-- Since you are bent upon it, very well!'
-- Stephen bent over his loom, quiet, watchful, and steady.
-- He crossed the street with his eyes bent upon the ground, and thus was walking sorrowfully away, when he felt a touch upon his arm.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His thoughts were evidently bent on the terrible parchment.
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