front是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 前面的, 前部的n. 正面; 前线, 战线v. 面对,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:
-- This dial hanging in front of us indicates the speed of the Nautilus.
-- The front and back of the Nautilus was of that spindle-shape which caused it justly to be compared to a cigar.
-- Then, leaning on the cage of the watch-light that jutted out from the front of the platform, set myself to look over all the line of the sky and sea.
-- One cachalot killed, it ran at the next, tacked on the spot that it might not miss its prey, going forwards and backwards, answering to its helm, plunging when the cetacean dived into the deep waters, coming up with it when it returned to the surface, striking it front or sideways, cutting or tearing in all directions and at any pace, piercing it with its terrible spur.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ursula stood in front of the class, leading the children by questions to understand the structure and the meaning of the catkins.
-- She stood in shadow in front of the class, with catkins in her hand, and she leaned towards the children, absorbed in the passion of instruction.
-- he asked, picking up a piece of hazel from a scholar's desk in front of him.
-- In front of them, at the corner of the lake, near the road, was a mossy boat-house under a walnut tree, and a little landing-stage where a boat was moored, wavering like a shadow on the still grey water, below the green, decayed poles.
-- You haven't the thousand obstacles a woman has in front of her."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I see the house at Wuthering Heights has "Earnshaw" carved over the front door.
-- When we got to Wuthering Heights, there he stood at the front door; and, as I passed in, I asked, 'how was the baby?
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Another pause, and then, not a quarter of a mile in front of me, I beheld the Union Jack flutter in the air above a wood.
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