succeed是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vi. 成功; 继承, 接替vt. 接替; 继…之后,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《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then, came that singular calm and silence which succeed all uproars; and then, with the vague sensation which I have always connected with such a lull,--namely, that it was Sunday, and somebody was dead,--I went upstairs to dress myself.
-- When my lips had parted, and had shaped some words that were without sound, I forced myself to tell him (though I could not do it distinctly), that I had been chosen to succeed to some property.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a great noise and crowd in the streets, and a man rode up on horse-back, crying aloud: 'The king's daughter wants a husband; but whoever seeks her hand must perform a hard task, and if he does not succeed he will forfeit his life.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'As soon as they have completed the term of eighty years, they are looked on as dead in law; their heirs immediately succeed to their estates; only a small pittance is reserved for their support; and the poor ones are maintained at the pub-lic charge.
-- I did not succeed in this so well as in the former; but after two or three farther trials, I had better fortune; and they both appeared amazed at my capacity.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They very rarely succeed in a good show of yellow.
-- "I think the idea a good one," I cried in reply, "and with this rivulet as a companion, there is no further reason why we should not succeed in our marvelous project."
-- Light is so diffuse, so subtle, that it permeates everywhere, and whatever little may remain, the retina of the eye will succeed in finding it.
-- "Exactly, my observant nephew," exclaimed my uncle, elated and delighted, "and it is quite probable that if we succeed in getting toward the polar regions --somewhere near the seventy-third degree of latitude, where Sir James Ross discovered the magnetic pole, we shall behold the needle point directly upward.
-- I was tight bound, and did not succeed in changing my position an inch.
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:
-- It was a madness, and it required a madman to succeed in it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She would officially succeed to the chamber she had rented so long.
-- They rode to the top of Oxford Street, and there alighting, dived in among the great streets of melancholy stateliness, and the little streets that try to be as stately and succeed in being more melancholy, of which there is a labyrinth near Park Lane.
-- To this would succeed a labyrinth of bare passages and pillared galleries, with the family procession already preparing in the quadrangle below, through the carriages and luggage being brought together by the servants for the day's journey.
-- If I was to try no matter whether on myself, on somebody else, or both any genteel mystifications, I should probably not succeed in them.'
-- The next man who has as large a capacity and as genuine a taste for swindling, will succeed as well.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Believ-ing that they could not begin too early to cultivate energy, industry, and independence, their parents consented, and both fell to work with the hearty good will which in spite of all obstacles is sure to succeed at last.
-- The little girls hailed Amy and her treasures with delight, which cordial reception somewhat soothed her perturbed spirit, and she fell to work, determined to succeed florally, if she could not artistically.
-- The maneuver did not succeed as well as she expect-ed, however, for though just in the act of setting fire to a funeral pyre, the Professor dropped his torch, metaphori-cally speaking, and made a dive after the little blue ball.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have forgotten to mention that, in many things, Queequeg placed great confidence in the excellence of Yojo's judgment and surprising forecast of things; and cherished Yojo with considerable esteem, as a rather good sort of god, who perhaps meant well enough upon the whole, but in all cases did not succeed in his benevolent designs.
-- There are only two books in being which at all pretend to put the living sperm whale before you, and at the same time, in the remotest degree succeed in the attempt.
-- Nevertheless, so well did he succeed in that dissembling, that when with ivory leg he stepped ashore at last, no Nantucketer thought him otherwise than but naturally grieved, and that to the quick, with the terrible casualty which had overtaken him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Do you think it incredible that Mr. Collins should be able to pro-cure any woman's good opinion, because he was not so happy as to succeed with you?'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The motive was too common to be wondered at; but the means, however they might succeed by establishing his superiority in ill-breeding, were not likely to attach any one to him except his wife.
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