hungry是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 饥饿的, 渴望的,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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Menelaus saw him thus stride out before the ranks, and was glad as a hungry lion that lights on the car-case of some goat or horned stag, and devours it there and then, though dogs and youths set upon him.
-- As when fair Juno's lord flashes his lightning in token of great rain or hail or snow when the snow-flakes whiten the ground, or again as a sign that he will open the wide jaws of hungry war, even so did Agamemnon heave many a heavy sigh, for his soul trembled within him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And inside, in the artificial darkness of the parlour, into which only one thin jet of sunlight penetrated, the stranger, hungry we must suppose, and fearful, hidden in his uncomfortable hot wrappings, pored through his dark glasses upon his paper or chinked his dirty little bottles, and occasionally swore savagely at the boys, audible if invisible, outside the windows.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.'
-- The sun makes the rocks dance in the heat, and the herd children hear one kite (nev-er any more) whistling almost out of sight overhead, and they know that if they died, or a cow died, that kite would sweep down, and the next kite miles away would see him drop and follow, and the next, and the next, and almost be-fore they were dead there would be a score of hungry kites come out of nowhere.
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:
-- 'Do I expect a hungry wolf will satisfy his craving with a mouthful!They have lost a man, and 'tis their fashion, when they meet a loss, and fail in the surprise, to fall back; but we shall have them on again, with new expedients to circumvent us, and master our scalps.
-- When Uncas had brained his first antagonist, he turned, like a hungry lion, to seek another.
-- 'Keep everything in the shade,' returned the scout; 'the snapping of a flint, or even the smell of a single karnel of the brimstone, would bring the hungry varlets upon us in a body.
-- The scout turned to her with a smile of honest and cor-dial approbation, as he answered: 'I would I had a thousand men, of brawny limbs and quick eyes, that feared death as little as you!I'd send them jab-bering Frenchers back into their den again, afore the week was ended, howling like so many fettered hounds or hungry wolves.
-- Amid the unnatural shower, a few hungry ravens struggled with the gale; but no sooner was the green ocean of woods which stretched beneath them, passed, than they gladly stopped, at random, to their hideous banquet.
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:
-- After a moment's hesitation, Strickland scrambled to his feet, and together they went to the Bouchee de Pain, where the hungry are given a wedge of bread, which they must eat there and then, for it is forbidden to take it away; and then to the Cuillere de Soupe, where for a week, at eleven and four, you may get a bowl of thin, salt soup.
-- Tough Bill's fare was seldom extravagant, and you rose from his table almost as hungry as you sat down, but for some days they had good reason to regret it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gideon Spilett, with a stone cleverly and vigorously thrown, killed one of these tragopans, on which Pencroft, made hungry by the fresh air, had cast greedy eyes.
-- Now, what will happen if a hungry animal swallows one of these baits?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The clergyman's horse, stumbling with a dull blunt sound among the graves, was cropping the grass; at once deriving orthodox consolation from the dead parishioners, and enforcing last Sunday's text that this was what all flesh came to; a lean ass who had sought to expound it also, without being qualified and ordained, was pricking his ears in an empty pound hard by, and looking with hungry eyes upon his priestly neighbour.
-- At this juncture the poor dogs were standing on their hind legs quite surprisingly; the child, having pity on them, was about to cast some morsels of food to them before she tasted it herself, hungry though she was, when their master interposed.
-- It was not until she was in the act of getting down the cup, and drawing a long breath after the exertion of causing its contents to disappear, that the lady of the caravan beheld an old man and a young child walking slowly by, and glancing at her proceedings with eyes of modest but hungry admiration.
-- 'Well, hungry or not, you had better have some tea,' rejoined her new acquaintance.
-- Between them sat her grandfather, looking intently at the winner with a kind of hungry admiration, and hanging upon his words as if he were some superior being.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But wait till you are hungry and sleepy, you will sing another tune," Peter Gerasimovitch said, laughing still louder.
-- Nekhludoff did not know he was as hungry as he turned out to be, and when he tasted of some cheese and bread he could not stop eating, and ate ravenously.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And once she had really frightened her old nurse by shouting suddenly in her ear, 'Nurse!Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyaena, and you're a bone.'
-- 'He's only just out of prison, and he hadn't finished his tea when he was sent in,' Haigha whispered to Alice: 'and they only give them oyster-shells in there so you see he's very hungry and thirsty.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So a big pigeon pie was brought in and put on a sidetable, and I made a hearty supper, for I was as hungry as a hawk, while Mr. Dance was further complimented and at last dismissed.
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