stomach是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 胃, 胃口; 肚子, 腹部vt. 承受, 忍受,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But when he be-gan to walk and to move about, the stones in his stomach knocked against each other and rattled.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I measured the tail of the dead rat, and found it to be two yards long, wanting an inch; but it went against my stomach to drag the carcass off the bed, where it lay still bleeding; I observed it had yet some life, but with a strong slash across the neck, I thoroughly despatched it.
-- The captain understood my raillery very well, and merrily replied with the old English proverb, 'that he doubted mine eyes were bigger than my belly, for he did not observe my stomach so good, although I had fasted all day;' and, continuing in his mirth, protested 'he would have gladly given a hundred pounds, to have seen my closet 187in the eagle's bill, and afterwards in its fall from so great a height into the sea; which would certainly have been a most astonishing object, worthy to have the description of it transmitted to future ages:' and the comparison of Pha-eton was so obvious, that he could not forbear applying it, although I did not much admire the conceit.
-- Their next business is from herbs, minerals, gums, oils, shells, salts, juices, sea-weed, excre-ments, barks of trees, serpents, toads, frogs, spiders, dead men's flesh and bones, birds, beasts, and fishes, to form a composition, for smell and taste, the most abominable, nauseous, and detestable, they can possibly contrive, which the stomach immediately rejects with loathing, and this they call a vomit; or else, from the same store-house, with some other poisonous additions, they command us to take in at the orifice above or below (just as the physician then happens to be disposed) a medicine equally annoying and disgustful to the bowels; which, relaxing the belly, drives down all before it; and this they call a purge, or a clyster.
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:
-- 'You've got to have a certain amount of it to be able to live and get along...even to be free to THINK you must have a certain amount of money, or your stomach stops you.
-- The man lay flat on his stomach on the floor, his neck pressed back, wriggling under the engine and poking with his finger.
-- The keeper lay on his stomach again.
-- 'You say a man's got no brain, when he's a fool: and no heart, when he's mean; and no stomach when he's a funker.
-- But anyhow, with all the cocktails, all the lying in warmish wa-ter and sunbathing on hot sand in hot sun, jazzing with your stomach up against some fellow in the warm nights, cooling off with ices, it was a complete narcotic.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As this glad ship of good luck bore down upon the moody Pequod, the barbarian sound of enormous drums came from her forecastle; and drawing still nearer, a crowd of her men were seen standing round her huge try-pots, which, covered with the parchment-like poke or stomach skin of the black fish, gave forth a loud roar to every stroke of the clenched hands of the crew.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was so much amazed with the thing itself, having never felt the like, nor discoursed with any one that had, that I was like one dead or stupefied; and the motion of the earth made my stomach sick, like one that was tossed at sea; but the noise of the falling of the rock awakened me, as it were, and rousing me from the stupefied condition I was in, filled me with horror; and I thought of nothing then but the hill falling upon my tent and all my household goods, and burying all at once; and this sunk my very soul within me a second time.
-- Be that, however, one way or the other, when I awaked I found myself exceedingly refreshed, and my spirits lively and cheerful; when I got up I was stronger than I was the day before, and my stomach better, for I was hungry; and, in short, I had no fit the next day, but continued much altered for the better.
-- I was so astonished with the sight of these things, that I entertained no notions of any danger to myself from it for a long while: all my apprehensions were buried in the thoughts of such a pitch of inhuman, hellish brutality, and the horror of the degeneracy of human nature, which, though I had heard of it often, yet I never had so near a view of before; in short, I turned away my face from the horrid spectacle; my stomach grew sick, and I was just at the point of fainting, when nature discharged the disorder from my stomach; and having vomited with uncommon violence, I was a little relieved, but could not bear to stay in the place a moment; so I got up the hill again with all the speed I could, and walked on towards my own habitation.
-- I found Friday had still a hankering stomach after some of the flesh, and was still a cannibal in his nature; but I showed so much abhorrence at the very thoughts of it, and at the least appearance of it, that he durst not discover it: for I had, by some means, let him know that I would kill him if he of-fered it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After the palatial resort in Adams Street, he could not stomach the commonplace saloons which he found advertised.
-- A little food in the stomach does wonders.
-- His stomach was so empty that it ached.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Miss Watson's nigger, Jim, had a hair-ball as big as your fist, which had been took out of the fourth stomach of an ox, and he used to do magic with it.
-- We found a brass button in his stomach and a round ball, and lots of rubbage.
-- Despised love struck not with woe That head of curly knots, Nor stomach troubles laid him low, Young Stephen Dowling Bots.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For, as night came on, a queer, empty feeling at the pit of his stomach reminded the Marionette that he had eaten nothing as yet.
-- And as his stomach kept grumbling more than ever and he had nothing to quiet it with, he thought of going out for a walk to the near-by village, in the hope of finding some charitable person who might give him a bit of bread.
-- After sneezing, Fire Eater, ugly as ever, cried to Pinocchio: "Stop crying!Your wails give me a funny feeling down here in my stomach and--E--tchee!--E--tchee!"
-- His stomach seemed a bottomless pit.
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