other是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 另外的, 其他的n. /pron. 另一个人(或事),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:
-- "I want you to help me get clothes and shelter and then, with other things.
-- Haysman's meadow was gay with a tent, in which Mrs. Bunting and other ladies were preparing tea, while, without, the Sunday-school children ran races and played games under the noisy guidance of the curate and the Misses Cuss and Sackbut.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken cap-tain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the ves-sel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disappeared from those seas (with a consider-able amount of copra aboard), sailing to its unknown fate from Bayna in December, 1887, a date that tallies entirely with my uncle's story.
-- The two other men who had escaped so far with me were a man named Helmar, a passenger like myself, and a seaman whose name I don't know, a short sturdy man, with a stammer.
-- For a minute we stared at each other without speaking.
-- There were three other men besides, three strange brutish-look- ing fellows, at whom the staghounds were snarling savagely.
-- I fancied while we were still far off that I saw some other and very grotesque-looking creatures scuttle into the bushes upon the slope; but I saw nothing of these as we drew nearer.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Night-Song in the Jungle It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one af-ter the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
-- He had almost forgot-ten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment's sake.
-- But as soon as his cubs are old enough to stand on their feet he must bring them to the Pack Council, which is generally held once a month at full moon, in order that the other wolves may identify them.
-- The cubs tumbled over each other in the center of the circle where their mothers and fathers sat, and now and again a senior wolf would go quietly up to a cub, look at him care-fully, and return to his place on noiseless feet.
-- Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
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:
-- In this, perhaps, he does no more than any other energetic and imaginative race would do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself.
-- The warriors appeared to be on the most friendly terms, and seemingly conversed much together; yet, according to the account of the in-terpreter, each was absolutely ignorant of what the other said.
-- They mutually exhorted each other to be of use in the event of the chances of war throwing either of the parties into the hands of his enemies.
-- Like nations of higher pretensions, the American Indian gives a very different account of his own tribe or race from that which is given by other people.
-- But, beyond this, the enterprise and energy of a people who have done so much in other places have done little here.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols.
-- 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.
-- In addition to his other vocations, he was the singing- master of the neighborhood, and picked up many bright shillings by instructing the young folks in psalmody.
-- Certain it is, his advances were signals for rival can-didates to retire, who felt no inclination to cross a lion in his amours; insomuch, that when his horse was seen tied to Van Tassel's paling, on a Sunday night, a sure sign that his master was courting, or, as it is termed, ' sparking,' within, all other suitors passed by in despair, and carried the war into other quarters.
-- He was gaunt and shagged, with a ewe neck, and a head like a hammer; his rusty mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burs; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral, but the other had the gleam of a genu-ine devil in it.
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:
-- But I think the conversation never settled down so comfortably as when it turned to the details of the trade which was the other side of the art we practised.
-- When she came to know writers it was like adventuring upon a stage which till then she had known only from the other side of the footlights.
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