contrast是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 使对比, 形成对照; n. 明显的差别，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All was silent within, and he would have passed on in the belief that the party had broken up, had not a dim light, yellow as saffron by contrast with the greenish whiteness outside, streamed through a knot-hole in the folding doors.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer's boarders formed a striking contrast to the rest.
-- In another moment the law student was enlightened as to the cause of their hilarity; he felt the full force of the contrast between his equipage and one of the smartest broughams in Paris; a coachman, with powdered hair, seemed to find it difficult to hold a pair of spirited horses, who stood chafing the bit.
-- The transition was too sudden, and the contrast was so violent that it could not but act as a powerful stimulant; his ambition developed and grew beyond all social bounds.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted in our characters drew us nearer together.
-- Beautiful!Great God!His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lus-trous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
-- Nothing could exceed in beauty the contrast between these two excellent creatures.
-- I improved, how-ever, sensibly in this science, but not sufficiently to follow up any kind of conversation, although I applied my whole mind to the endeavour, for I easily perceived that, although I eagerly longed to discover myself to the cottagers, I ought not to make the attempt until I had first become master of their language, which knowledge might enable me to make 132 Frankensteinthem overlook the deformity of my figure, for with this also the contrast perpetually presented to my eyes had made me acquainted.
-- Alas, how great was the contrast between us!He was alive to every new scene, joyful when he saw the beauties of the setting sun, and more happy when he beheld it rise and recommence a new day.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By contrast with his own miserable existence, they were well-fed, well-clothed andlooked after in sickness and old age.
-- How strange to have a big battle going on just a few miles awayand to know nothing of it!How strange the quiet of this deserted end of town in contrast with the day of the fighting atPeachtree Creek!Aunt Pitty's house was one of the last on the north side of Atlanta and with the fighting somewhereto the far south, there were no reinforcements going by at double-quick, no ambulances and staggering lines of walkingwounded coming back.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am afraid--sore afraid--that this purpose originated in my sense of the contrast there would be between me and Joe, if we went to the coach together.
-- The air of completeness and superiority with which she walked at my side, and the air of youthfulness and submission with which I walked at hers, made a contrast that I strongly felt.
-- While my mind was thus engaged, I thought of the beautiful young Estella, proud and refined, coming towards me, and I thought with absolute abhorrence of the contrast between the jail and her.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He found that the light came from a house which looked smaller than it really was, from the contrast of its height with that of an immense giant who stood in front of it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His cold eyes would hardly have been eyes, but for the short ends of lashes which, by bringing them into immediate contrast with something paler than themselves, expressed their form.
-- And very white he looked, in contrast with the roses.
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：
-- said Connie, rather shamefacedly; but she knew how she had suffered in contrast to Hilda.
-- Yes, he still would do a Vene-tian lagoonscape, now and then, in contrast to his Scottish landscapes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is no proof of an inconstant mind, but exactly the opposite, when the idea will not bear close comparison with the reality, and the contrast is a fatal shock to it.
-- There really was a genuineness in the poor fellow, and a contrast between the hardness of his hat and the softness of his heart (albeit, perhaps, of his head, too), that was moving.
-- 'Most unkind never to have come back to see us since that day, though naturally it was not to be expected that there should be any attraction at our house and you were much more pleasantly engaged, that's pretty certain, and is she fair or dark blue eyes or black I wonder, not that I expect that she should be anything but a perfect contrast to me in all particulars for I am a disappointment as I very well know and you are quite right to be devoted no doubt though what I am saying Arthur never mind I hardly know myself Good gracious!'
-- As Clennam followed, she said to him, with the same external composure and in the same level voice, but with a smile that is only seen on cruel faces: a very faint smile, lifting the nostril, scarcely touching the lips, and not breaking away gradually, but instantly dismissed when done with:'I hope the wife of your dear friend Mr Gowan, may be happy in the contrast of her extraction to this girl's and mine, and in the high good fortune that awaits her.'
-- At that time the contrast was far greater; there being no small steam-boats on the river, no landing places but slippery wooden stairs and foot-causeways, no railroad on the opposite bank, no hanging bridge or fish-market near at hand, no traffic on the nearest bridge of stone, nothing moving on the stream but watermen's wherries and coal-lighters.
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