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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As this was a time when everybody had his own life to think of, nobody minded me, or what was become of me; but another man stepped up to the pump, and thrusting me aside with his foot, let me lie, thinking I had been dead; and it was a great while before I came to myself.
-- It was to no purpose for them or us, after we were in the boat, to think of reaching their own ship; so all agreed to let her drive, and only to pull her in towards shore as much as we could; and our master prom-ised them, that if the boat was staved upon shore, he would make it good to their master: so partly rowing and partly driving, our boat went away to the northward, sloping to-wards the shore almost as far as Winterton Ness.
-- I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruc-tion, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.
-- Besides,' said he, 'when I carry you to the Brazils, so great a way from your own country, if I should take from you what you have, you will be starved there, and then I only take away that life I have given.
-- As he was charitable in this proposal, so he was just in the performance to a tittle; for he ordered the seamen that none should touch anything that I had: then he took every-thing into his own possession, and gave me back an exact inventory of them, that I might have them, even to my three earthen jars.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By his own marriage, likewise, which happened soon afterwards, he added to his wealth.
-- Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only a life-interest in it.
-- The whole was tied up for the benefit of this child, who, in occasional visits with his father and mother at Norland, had so far gained on the affections of his uncle, by such attractions as are by no means unusual in children of two or three years old; an imperfect articulation, an earnest desire of having his own way, many cunning tricks, and a great deal of noise, as to outweigh all the value of all the attention which, for years, he had received from his niece and her daughters.
-- The prospect of four thousand a-year, in addition to his present income, besides the remaining half of his own mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity. "Yes, he would give them three thousand pounds: it would be liberal and handsome!It would be enough to make them completely easy.
-- So acutely did Mrs. Dashwood feel this ungracious behaviour, and so earnestly did she despise her daughter-in-law for it, that, on the arrival of the latter, she would have quitted the house for ever, had not the entreaty of her eldest girl induced her first to reflect on the propriety of going, and her own tender love for all her three children determined her afterwards to stay, and for their sakes avoid a breach with their brother.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If, when she reached her destination he did not alight and attend her baggage for her, it was because, in his own estimation, he had signally failed.
-- Her own plain blue dress, with its black cotton tape trimmings, now seemed to her shabby.
-- Finally, wearied by her own reflections, she began to grow dull in her chair, and feeling the need of sleep, arranged her clothing for the night and went to bed.
-- Their clothes were neat, in many instances fine, and wherever she encountered the eye of one it was only to recognise in it a keen analysis of her own position--her individual shortcomings of dress and that shadow of manner which she thought must hang about her and make clear to all who and what she was.
-- She felt the flow of the tide of effort and interest--felt her own helplessness without quite realising the wisp on the tide that she was.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jim always kept that five-center piece round his neck with a string, and said it was a charm the devil give to him with his own hands, and told him he could cure anybody with it and fetch witches when-ever he wanted to just by saying some- thing to it; but he never told what it was he said to it.
-- Everybody said it was a real beautiful oath, and asked Tom if he got it out of his own head.
-- De bes' way is to res' easy en let de ole man take his own way.
-- When I lit my candle and went up to my room that night there sat pap his own self!
-- I'll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better'n what HE is.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The two little old men, each with his own wig back on his own head, shook hands and swore to be good friends for the rest of their lives.
-- But instead of giving it back, Pinocchio put it on his own head, which was half swallowed up in it.
-- "Let me tell you, for your own good, Pinocchio," said the Talking Cricket in his calm voice, "that those who follow that trade always end up in the hospital or in prison."
-- CHAPTER 7 Geppetto returns home and gives his own breakfast to the Marionette The poor Marionette, who was still half asleep, had not yet found out that his two feet were burned and gone.
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