own是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. (用在所有格后面, 加强语气) 自己的,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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For, as without law there is no sin, without eyes there is no indecorum; and she appeared to feel that Gabriel's espial had made her an indecorous woman without her own connivance.
-- The dog took no notice, for he had arrived at an age at which all superfluous barking was cynically avoided as a waste of breath in fact, he never barked even at the sheep except to order, when it was done with an absolutely neutral countenance, as a sort of Commination-service, which, though offensive, had to be gone through once now and then to frighten the flock for their own good.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ah!once for all, this drama is neither a fiction nor a romance!_All is true_,--so true, that every one can discern the elements of the tragedy in his own house, perhaps in his own heart.
-- Vauquer's own property.
-- Vauquer (_nee_ de Conflans), who, as a matter of fact, had seen forty-eight summers, though she would only own to thirty-nine of them--Mme.
-- Vauquer had her own ideas.
-- The widow often talked of this deplorable business, and regretted her own too confiding disposition.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I also became a poet and for one year lived in a paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.
-- I must own I felt a little proud when my captain offered me the second dignity in the vessel and entreated me to remain with the greatest earnestness, so valuable did he consider my services.
-- At that age I became acquainted with the celebrated poets of our own country; but it was only when it had ceased to be in my power to derive its most important benefits from such a conviction that I perceived the necessity of becoming acquainted with more languages than that of my native country.
-- Be assured that for my own sake, as well as yours, I will not rashly encounter danger.
-- 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.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And after an interval a tall black boy of their own age ran breathlessly around thehouse and out toward the tethered horses.
-- He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenthbirthday.
-- Why, you liar, I saw you with my own eyes sidleround the corner of the porch and squat in the cape jessamine bush by the wall.
-- It was supposed to be a secret and a surprise, anda man's got a right to keep his own engagement quiet, hasn't he?
-- The Wilkes and Hamiltons always marry their own cousins.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He gave me a most tremendous dip and roll, so that the church jumped over its own weathercock.
-- Joe was a fair man, with curls of flaxen hair on each side of his smooth face, and with eyes of such a very undecided blue that they seemed to have somehow got mixed with their own whites.
-- But he was down on the rank wet grass, filing at his iron like a madman, and not minding me or minding his own leg, which had an old chafe upon it and was bloody, but which he handled as roughly as if it had no more feeling in it than the file.
-- Mr. Wopsle, the clerk at church, was to dine with us; and Mr. Hubble the wheelwright and Mrs. Hubble; and Uncle Pumblechook (Joe's uncle, but Mrs. Joe appropriated him), who was a well-to-do cornchandler in the nearest town, and drove his own chaise-cart.
-- Mr. Pumblechook made out, after carefully surveying the premises, that he had first got upon the roof of the forge, and had then got upon the roof of the house, and had then let himself down the kitchen chimney by a rope made of his bedding cut into strips; and as Mr. Pumblechook was very positive and drove his own chaise-cart--over everybody--it was agreed that it must be so.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He could not go back to his own home, so he went to a strange village, and em-ployed himself in keeping sheep.
-- As soon as they had satisfied themselves, they put out the lights, and each once more sought out a resting-place to his own liking.
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