misfortune是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 不幸, 灾祸,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:
-- 'Has it been your misfortune to undergo a long impris-onment, without trial, or even accusation, in your native country, Doctor Manette?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, and caused by his own fault.
-- But now, when the misfortune had come upon himself, he was so far from thinking of putting an end to the position that he would not recognize it at all, would not recognize it just because it was too awful, too unnatural.
-- "Admitting that a certain quite irrational ridicule falls to the lot of these men, yet I never saw anything but a misfortune in it, and always felt sympathy for it," Alexey Alexandrovitch said to himself, though indeed this was not the fact, and he had never felt sympathy for misfortunes of that kind, but the more frequently he had heard of instances of unfaithful wives betraying their husbands, the more highly he had thought of himself.
-- "It is a misfortune which may befall anyone.
-- And this misfortune has befallen me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He bore his misfortune with his habitual tranquillity.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But Clif and Martin came to the misfortune of Founder's Day.
-- One other misfortune occurred.
-- The dinner began with one misfortune in that Terry Wickett, who hitherto could be depended upon to stay decently away, now appeared, volunteering to the wife of an ex-ambassador, "I simply couldn't duck this spread, with dear Sir Isaac coming.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Make this foolish woman understand that she can't be- have like this to a lady in misfortune 芒聙娄 that there is a law for such things芒聙娄.
-- Yet till that moment she had fancied that she might escape misfortune by care, gentleness and submis-siveness before everyone.
-- But it's a misfortune to be broad without a special genius.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 脗路 'And I hope I should have improved, being very anxious to learn, and he very patient to teach, if the great misfortune of his death'- my mother broke down again here, and could get no farther.
-- It was on this very first day that I had the misfortune to throw her,though she was not subject to such weakness in general, into a stateof violent consternation.
-- We must live misfortune down,Trot!'
-- I hope that real love and truth are stronger inthe end than any evil or misfortune in the world.'
-- My whole manner of thinking of our late misfortune was changed.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seven-teen.
-- The misfortune of Harriet's cold had been pretty well gone through before her arrival.
-- 'Yes, and what you told me on that head, confirmed an idea which I had entertained before. I do not mean to re-flect upon the good intentions of either Mr. Dixon or Miss Fairfax, but I cannot help suspecting either that, after mak-ing his proposals to her friend, he had the misfortune to fall in love with her, or that he became conscious of a lit-tle attachment on her side.
-- 386 EmmaChapter IINo misfortune occurred, again to prevent the ball.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His concern at this dilemma (which would have been alarm, had he been a thriving man; but misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror) led him to peer cautiously from the hay, and the first sight he beheld was the stars above him.
-- Fray here drew up his features to the mild degree of melancholy required when the persons involved in the given misfortune do not belong to your own family.
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