bullet是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 子弹, 枪弹,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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The bullet did its work; it hit the animal, and, sliding off the rounded surface, was lost in two miles depth of sea.
-- All at once, carried away by its frightful overcharge, the Nautilus sank like a bullet under the waters, that is to say, it fell as if it was in a vacuum.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And now, all this scaffolding of reasonings fell before a simple ball of metal, found in the body of an inoffensive rodent!In fact, this bullet must have issued from a firearm, and who but a human being could have used such a weapon?
-- When Pencroft had placed the bullet on the table, his companions looked at it with intense astonishment.
-- He took the bullet, turned it over and over, rolled it between his finger and thumb; then, turning to Pencroft, he asked, Are you sure that the peccary wounded by this bullet was not more than three months old?"
-- "But it would be much more astonishing, I should think, observed the reporter, "if this peccary had been born with a bullet in its inside!"
-- "Do you think I could have a bullet in my jaw for five or six months without finding it out?
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A voice replied, telling him to keep out of the moonlight or he would get some lead in him, and at the same time a bullet whistled close by his arm.
-- I stand here and tell you so; and they're the last good words you'll get from me, for in the name of heaven, I'll put a bullet in your back when next I meet you.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We cannot see it, nor can we appreciate this machine, any more than we can the spoke of a wheel spinning, or a bullet flying through the air.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I told you to take that loping miscreant under the line of white point; now, if your bullet went a hair's breadth it went two inches above it.
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