rotten是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 腐烂的， 腐朽的，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：
-- The Court, from that exclusive inner circle to its outermost rotten ring of intrigue, corruption, and dissimulation, was all gone together.
-- It sheared off heads so many, that it, and the ground it most polluted, were a rotten red.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Isn't it just rotten fossil fish--isn't it like the mummy-dust and puppy- ear stuff they used to give in the olden days?"
-- Fact is, I had a rotten headache.
-- When he was certain that Leora would recover, Martin sat by her bed, coaxing, "We'll just have to make up our minds we never can have a baby now, and so I want-- Oh, I'm no good!And I've got a rotten temper.
-- "Oh, he's awfully optimistic--he puts things over--he-- Oh, Leora, am I going to be a sour, cranky, unpopular, rotten failure again?"
-- "I'm a rotten bacteriologist.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is a strange unwholesome smell upon the room, likemildewed corduroys, sweet apples wanting air, and rotten books.
-- If the day were half as tremendous to any other professionalgentleman in Doctors' Commons as it was to me, I sincerely believehe made some expiation for his share in that rotten oldecclesiastical cheese.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As far as could be learnt it appeared that the poor young dog, still under the impression that since he was kept for running after sheep, the more he ran after them the better, had at the end of his meal off the dead lamb, which may have given him additional energy and spirits, collected all the ewes into a corner, driven the timid creatures through the hedge, across the upper field, and by main force of worrying had given them momentum enough to break down a portion of the rotten railing, and so hurled them over the edge.
-- The sight of the pigs turning in disgust from the rotten ears seemed to arouse Boldwood, and he one evening sent for Oak.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'd have known I never wanted to lay eyes on you again!Butyou aren't a gentleman!You are just a nasty ill-bred creature!And you think that because your rotten little boats canoutrun the Yankees, you've the right to come here and jeer at men who are brave and women who are sacrificingeverything for the Cause " "Stop, stop " he begged with a grin.
-- Letters from men at the front complained constantly of shoes that wore outin a week, gunpowder that would not ignite, harness that snapped at any strain, meat that was rotten and flour that wasfull of weevils.
-- How dared he sit there on that fine horse, in shining boots and handsome white linensuit so sleek and well fed, smoking an expensive cigar, when Ashley and all the other boys were fighting the Yankees,barefooted, sweltering in the heat, hungry, their bellies rotten with disease?
-- Thedust from the ambulances came into her face with choking dryness, and the rotten smells were like a foul liquid in hernostrils.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked at Sarah Pocket with triumph in her weird eyes, and so I left my fairy godmother, with both her hands on her crutch stick, standing in the midst of the dimly lighted room beside the rotten bride-cake that was hidden in cobwebs.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For instance, a crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the topmast; they go on shore to rob and plunder, they see a harmless people, are entertained with kindness; they give the country a new name; they take formal possession of it for their king; they set up a rotten plank, or a stone, for a memorial; they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple more, by force, for a sample; return home, and get their pardon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They walked on across the fields and down the shady lanes, sometimes getting over a fragment of a fence so rotten that it dropped at a touch of the foot, sometimes passing near a wreck of bricks and beams overgrown with grass, marking the site of deserted works.
-- As Sissy said it, her eyes were attracted by another of those rotten fragments of fence upon the ground.
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：
-- Therefore let's live the mental life, and glory in our spite, and strip the rotten old show.
-- They're the mingiest set of ladylike snipe ever invented: full of conceit of themselves, frightened even if their boot-laces aren't correct, rotten as high game, and always in the right.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The features of the surrounding picture were, a church with hoarding and scaffolding about it, which had been under suppositious repair so long that the means of repair looked a hundred years old, and had themselves fallen into decay; a quantity of washed linen, spread to dry in the sun; a number of houses at odds with one another and grotesquely out of the perpendicular, like rotten pre-Adamite cheeses cut into fantastic shapes and full of mites; and a feverish bewilderment of windows, with their lattice-blinds all hanging askew, and something draggled and dirty dangling out of most of them.
-- The three places in question were three little rotten holes in this Island, containing three little ignorant, drunken, guzzling, dirty, out-of-the-way constituencies, that had reeled into Mr Merdle's pocket.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a minute Jo stood still with a strange feeling in her heart, then she re-solved to go on, but something held and turned her round, just in time to see Amy throw up her hands and go down, with a sudden crash of rotten ice, the splash of water, and a cry that made Jo's heart stand still with fear.
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