sight是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 视力; 望见, 瞥见; 视域; 眼界; 情景, 奇观,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:
-- But prominent in it was a draped table with a gilded looking-glass, and that I made out at first sight to be a fine lady's dressing-table.
-- Nothing less than the frosty light of the cheerful sky, the sight of people passing beyond the bars of the court-yard gate, and the reviving influence of the rest of the bread and meat and beer, would have brought me round.
-- And the mere sight of the torment, with his fishy eyes and mouth open, his sandy hair inquisitively on end, and his waistcoat heaving with windy arithmetic, made me vicious in my reticence.
-- This lady, whose name was Camilla, very much reminded me of my sister, with the difference that she was older, and (as I found when I caught sight of her) of a blunter cast of features.
-- All in a moment, with nothing to lead up to it, my sister would stop herself in a yawn, and catching sight of me as it were incidentally, would swoop upon me with, "Come!there's enough of you!You get along to bed; you've given trouble enough for one night, I hope!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At this sight the fisherman was dreadfully frightened, and he trem-bled so that his knees knocked together: but still he went down near to the shore, and said: 'O man of the sea!
-- At this sight she was sadly frightened, and shutting the door as fast as she could came back to her seat.
-- and caused live coals to be brought, and these the dog was compelled to devour before the sight of all, until flames burst forth from its throat.
-- Then the king's son lost sight of her, and could not find out where she was gone, but waited till her father came home, and said to him, 'The unknown lady 205who danced with me has slipped away, and I think she must have sprung into the pear-tree.'
-- what a sight she saw there!The house-door stood wide open.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nothing can be more depressing than the sight of that sitting-room.
-- Dramas brought to a close or still in progress are foreshadowed by the sight of such actors as these, not the dramas that are played before the footlights and against a background of painted canvas, but dumb dramas of life, frost-bound dramas that sere hearts like fire, dramas that do not end with the actors' lives.
-- Indeed, the man appeared to have been one of the beasts of burden in our great social mill; one of those Parisian Ratons whom their Bertrands do not even know by sight; a pivot in the obscure machinery that disposes of misery and things unclean; one of those men, in short, at sight of whom we are prompted to remark that, "After all, we cannot do without them."
-- he cried at the sight of his hostess, and he put his arm gaily round her waist.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.
-- Some of my comrades groaned, and my own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts, when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention and diverted our solicitude from our own sit-uation.
-- The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions seem still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth.
-- I was unwilling to quit the sight of those that remained to me, and above all, I desired to see my sweet Elizabeth in some degree consoled.
-- When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At the sight of him, the Tarleton hounds rose up out of the red dust and stood waiting expectantly for theirmasters.
-- She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in lovewith any woman not herself, and the sight of India Wilkes and Stuart at the speaking had been too much for herpredatory nature.
-- From the avenue of cedars to the row of whitecabins in the slave quarters, there was an air of solidness, of stability and permanence about Tara, and whenever Geraldgalloped around the bend in the road and saw his own roof rising through green branches, his heart swelled with prideas though each sight of it were the first sight.
-- The sight of Tom Slattery dawdling on his neighbors' porches, begging cotton seed for planting or a side of baconto "tide him over," was a familiar one.
-- It was a friendly and comfortable room and, ordinarily, Scarlett loved the quiet hours which the family spentthere after supper; but tonight she hated the sight of it and, if she had not feared her father's loudly bawled questions,she would have slipped away, down the dark hall to Ellen's little office and cried out her sorrow on the old sofa.
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