affect是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 影响,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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How it would affect Frank was among the earliest thoughts of both.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But such discoveries did not much affect her now.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If the censure of the Yahoos could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain, that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain, and have gone so far as to drop hints, that the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos have no more existence than the inhabitants of Utopia.
-- Nothing angered and mortified me so much as the queen's dwarf; who being of the lowest stature that was ever in that country (for I verily think he was not full thirty feet high), became so insolent at seeing a creature so much be-neath him, that he would always affect to swagger and look big as he passed by me in the queen's antechamber, while I was standing on some table talking with the lords or la-dies of the court, and he seldom failed of a smart word or two upon my littleness; against which I could only revenge myself by calling him brother, challenging him to wrestle, 130 Gulliver's Travelsand such repartees as are usually in the mouths of court pages.
-- He observed, 'that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry, I had mentioned gaming: he desired to know at what age this entertainment was usually taken up, and when it was laid down; how much of their time it employed; whether it ever went so high as to affect their fortunes; whether mean, vicious people, by their dexterity in that art, might not arrive at great riches, and sometimes keep our very nobles in dependence, as well as habituate them to vile companions, wholly take them from the improvement of their minds, and force them, by the losses they received, to learn and practise that infamous dexterity upon others?'
-- These people are under continual disquietudes, never enjoying a minutes peace of mind; and their disturbances proceed from causes which very little affect the rest of mor-tals.
-- But this description, I confess, does by no means affect the British nation, who may be an example to the whole world for their wisdom, care, and justice in planting col-onies; their liberal endowments for the advancement of religion and learning; their choice of devout and able pas-tors to propagate Christianity; their caution in stocking their provinces with people of sober lives and conversations from this the mother kingdom; their strict regard to the distribution of justice, in supplying the civil administra-tion through all their colonies with officers of the greatest abilities, utter strangers to corruption; and, to crown all, by sending the most vigilant and virtuous governors, who have no other views than the happiness of the people over whom they preside, and the honour of the king their master.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, I don't care a button what you do to me, because I don't affect to be anybody.
-- But he could as easily have changed a clear sky by looking at it in surprise, as affect her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was cold, but even that did not affect me so much as ravenous hunger.
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:
-- Do these things really affect us very deeply?...You had that lover in Germany...what is it now?
-- If it's going to affect that, then I'm all against it.
-- It's only muscular paralysis with Sir Clifford it doesn't affect him,' said Connie, lying as naturally as breathing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It would affect my daughter greatly, sir, if she heard it.
-- This, Arthur received as an assurance that he might implicitly rely on Pancks, if he ever should come to need assistance; either in any of the matters of which they had spoken that night, or any other subject that could in any way affect himself.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Somehow it seemed as if they couldn't have got through the day without that, for what-ever their mood might be, the last glimpse of that motherly face was sure to affect them like sunshine.
-- As everyone exclaimed, and Beth hugged the cropped head tenderly, Jo assumed an indifferent air, which did not deceive anyone a particle, and said, rumpling up the brown bush and trying to look as if she liked it, 'It doesn't affect the fate of the nation, so don't wail, Beth.
-- He does not let business wean him from the little cares and du-ties that affect us all, and I try not to let domestic worries destroy my interest in his pursuits.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So powerfully did the whole grim aspect of Ahab affect me, and the livid brand which streaked it, that for the first few moments I hardly noted that not a little of this overbearing grimness was owing to the barbaric white leg upon which he partly stood.
-- Besides, the English whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American whalers; regarding the long, lean Nantucketer, with his nondescript provincialisms, as a sort of sea-peasant.
-- And since the nose is the central and most conspicuous of the features; and since it perhaps most modifies and finally controls their combined expression; hence it would seem that its entire absence, as an external appendage, must very largely affect the countenance of the whale.
-- But these were the first sharks that had been observed by the Pequod since the White Whale had been first descried; and whether it was that Ahab's crew were all such tiger-yellow barbarians, and therefore their flesh more musky to the senses of the sharks a matter sometimes well known to affect them, however it was, they seemed to follow that one boat without molesting the others.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Although I do not mean to assert that it is usually the practice of renowned and learned sages, to shorten the road to any great conclusion (their course indeed being rather to lengthen the distance, by various circumlocutions and discursive staggerings, like unto those in which drunken men under the pressure of a too mighty flow of ideas, are prone to indulge); still, I do mean to say, and do say distinctly, that it is the invariable practice of many mighty philosophers, in carrying out their theories, to evince great wisdom and foresight in providing against every possible contingency which can be supposed at all likely to affect themselves.
-- The Jew saw that it would be hopeless to affect any further mistake regarding the reality of Miss Nancy's rage; and, shrinking involuntarily back a few paces, cast a glance, half imploring and half cowardly, at Sikes: as if to hint that he was the fittest person to pursue the dialogue.
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