smoking是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 抽烟,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The noonday meal was spread; the soup tureen was smoking between roast beef and a leg of mutton, surrounded by large plates of olives, grapes, and oranges.
-- Supper was soon smoking on the table.
-- Numerous footmarks were there and several half-burned caps were lying smoking on the ground.
-- "Well, McNabbs, if it will comfort you—you may as well be told—the New Zealanders do not eat flesh without cooking or smoking it.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That night he went out as usual for his nocturnal walk, in the course of which he was in the habit of smoking a cigar.
-- The next night we lowered the lamp, and sat smoking cigarettes without making the least sound.
-- Both of them were smoking cigars, and coffee and wine were in front of them.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You see, I'm used to smoking a good deal, and now I haven't had a puff for three hours; however, just as you like.'
-- Smoking is not allowed, but is not prohibited either; it is half allowed so to speak, winked at.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When Mrs. Hall went to clear away the stranger's lunch, her idea that his mouth must also have been cut or disfigured in the accident she supposed him to have suffered, was confirmed, for he was smoking a pipe, and all the time that she was in the room he never loosened the silk muffler he had wrapped round the lower part of his face to put the mouthpiece to his lips.
-- For the most part he was quite still during that time; it would seem he sat in the growing darkness smoking in the firelight perhaps dozing.
-- While these things were going on in the parlour, and while Mr. Huxter was watching Mr. Marvel smoking his pipe against the gate, not a dozen yards away were Mr. Hall and Teddy Henfrey discussing in a state of cloudy puzzlement the one Iping topic.
-- I did not go that way, because of the crowd halfway down it opposite to the still smoking ruins of the house I had fired.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I turned and stared, arms akimbo, at the thick green behind me, into which the steamy ravine cut like a smoking gash.
-- After breakfast I went to the open gateway of the enclo-sure, and stood there smoking a cigarette and enjoying the freshness of the early morning.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For now I liked nothing better than to have Queequeg smoking by me, even in bed, because he seemed to be full of such serene household joy then.
-- But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Seated round the table were four or five boys, none older than the Dodger, smoking long clay pipes, and drinking spirits with the air of middle-aged men.
-- He had scarcely washed himself, and made everything tidy, by emptying the basin out of the window, agreeably to the Jew's directions, when the Dodger returned: accompanied by a very sprightly young friend, whom Oliver had seen smoking on the previous night, and who was now formally introduced to him as Charley Bates.
-- Whether it was the sense of freedom and independence which a rational animal may be supposed to feel when he sits on a table in an easy attitude smoking a pipe, swinging one leg carelessly to and fro, and having his boots cleaned all the time, without even the past trouble of having taken them off, or the prospective misery of putting them on, to disturb his reflections; or whether it was the goodness of the tobacco that soothed the feelings of the Dodger, or the mildness of the beer that mollified his thoughts; he was evidently tinctured, for the nonce, with a spice of romance and enthusiasm, foreign to his general nature.
-- Muttering a curse upon his tardiness, Sikes pushed Oliver before him; and they entered a low dark room with a smoky fire, two or three broken chairs, a table, and a very old couch: on which, with his legs much higher than his head, a man was reposing at full length, smoking a long clay pipe.
-- He replied to their salutations in the same way; but bestowed no closer recognition until he reached the further end of the alley; when he stopped, to address a salesman of small stature, who had squeezed as much of his person into a child's chair as the chair would hold, and was smoking a pipe at his warehouse door.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing, and no books nor study.
-- When breakfast was ready we lolled on the grass and eat it smoking hot.
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