baby是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 婴儿; 年龄最小的人; 小动物a. 婴儿似的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor's house-hold should; and even the little tailor, whom he had fined five shillings on the previous Monday for being drunk and bloodthirsty in the streets, stirred up to-morrow's pudding in his garret, while his lean wife and the baby sallied out to buy the beef.
-- The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed 48 Sons and Loversa fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter.
-- Without ventur-ing for Scrooge quite as hardily as this, I don't mind calling on you to believe that he was ready for a good broad field of strange appearances, and that nothing between a baby and rhinoceros would have astonished him very much.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Villain Foulon taken, my sis-ter!Old Foulon taken, my mother!Miscreant Foulon taken, my daughter!Then, a score of others ran into the midst of these, beating their breasts, tearing their hair, and scream-ing, Foulon alive!Foulon who told the starving people they might eat grass!Foulon who told my old father that he might eat grass, when I had no bread to give him!Foulon who told my baby it might suck grass, when these breasts where dry with want!O mother of God, this Foulon!O Heaven our suffering!Hear me, my dead baby and my withered father: I swear on my knees, on these stones, to avenge you on Fou-lon!Husbands, and brothers, and young men, Give us the blood of Foulon, Give us the head of Foulon, Give us the heart of Foulon, Give us the body and soul of Foulon, Rend Foulon to pieces, and dig him into the ground, that grass may grow from him!With these cries, numbers of the wom-en, lashed into blind frenzy, whirled about, striking and tearing at their own friends until they dropped into a pas-sionate swoon, and were only saved by the men belonging to them from being trampled under foot.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She knew that there was to be a consultation that day, and though she was only just up after her confinement (she had another baby, a little girl, born at the end of the winter), though she had trouble and anxiety enough of her own, she had left her tiny baby and a sick child, to come and hear Kitty's fate, which was to be decided that day.
-- Besides this, the care of her large family was a constant worry to her: first, the nursing of her young baby did not go well, then the nurse had gone away, now one of the children had fallen ill. "Well, how are all of you?"
-- When, after her separation from her husband, she gave birth to her only child, the child had died almost immediately, and the family of Madame Stahl, knowing her sensibility, and fearing the news would kill her, had substituted another child, a baby born the same night and in the same house in Petersburg, the daughter of the chief cook of the Imperial Household.
-- The people are poor and ignorant--that we see as surely as the peasant woman sees the baby is ill because it screams.
-- "Yes, but a man can't nurse a baby," said Pestsov, "while a woman..." "No, there was an Englishman who did suckle his baby on board ship," said the old prince, feeling this freedom in conversation permissible before his own daughters.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But she took his hand and mourned, "I hope you and my baby will be happy.
-- He landed from a boat at what had been the second story of a tenement and delivered a baby on the top floor; he bound up heads and arms for a line of men; but what gave him glory was the perfectly foolhardy feat of swimming the flood to save five children marooned and terrified on a bobbing church pew.
-- As he passed a farmhouse a woman ran out shrieking that her baby had swallowed a thimble and was choking to death.
-- V Their baby was coming in five months.
-- Trained now to the false cheerfulness of the doctor, he shouted, when she was racked and ghastly with the indignity of morning sickness, "There, that's fine, old girl!Wouldn't be making a good baby if you weren't sick.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The child suddenly becoming an-imated, chattered away in her baby language, something about 'mammy' and that 'mammy would beat her,' and about some cup that she had 'bwoken.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But if he had askedthe question twenty times, each time with twenty blows, I believemy baby heart would have burst before I would have told him so.
-- After that, she took the baby out of its little cradle, andnursed it.
-- Itook the little baby in my arms when it was awake, and nursed itlovingly.
-- I came into the room where she and my mother were sitting; andthe baby (who was only a few weeks old) being on my mother'slap, I took it very carefully in my arms.
-- 'Who else could comparemy brother's baby with your boy?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mrs. Weston, with her baby on her knee, indulging in such reflections as these, was one of the happiest women in the world.
-- If any thing could increase her delight, it was perceiving that the baby would soon have outgrown its first set of caps.
-- When Mr. Weston joined the par-ty, however, and when the baby was fetched, there was no longer a want of subject or animation or of courage and opportunity for Frank Churchill to draw near her and say, 'I have to thank you, Miss Woodhouse, for a very kind forgiving message in one of Mrs. Weston's letters.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Emmie's baby has been born and is dying and must be baptized.
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