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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As far back as Scarlett could remember, her mother had always been the same, her voice soft and sweet whetherin praising or in reproving, her manner efficient and unruffled despite the daily emergencies of Gerald's turbulenthousehold, her spirit always calm and her back unbowed, even in the deaths of her three baby sons.
-- His five tall brothersgave him good-by with admiring but slightly patronizing smiles, for Gerald was the baby and the little one of a brawnyfamily.
-- He swaggered among the tall O'Haras like a struttingbantam in a barnyard of giant Cochin roosters, and they loved him, baited him affectionately to hear him roar andhammered on him with their large fists no more than was necessary to keep a baby brother in his proper place.
-- When Scarlett was a year old, and more healthy and vigorous than a girl baby had any right to be, in Mammy'sopinion, Ellen's second child, named Susan Elinor, but always called Suellen, was born, and in due time came Carreen,listed in the family Bible as Caroline Irene.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was at a loss to account for this surprising circumstance, and could not help giving my mind to speculations about it, until by and by Millers came down with the baby, which baby was handed to Flopson, which Flopson was handing it to Mrs. Pocket, when she too went fairly head foremost over Mrs. Pocket, baby and all, and was caught by Herbert and myself.
-- There were four little girls, and two little boys, besides the baby who might have been either, and the baby's next successor who was as yet neither.
-- One of the little girls, a mere mite who seemed to have prematurely taken upon herself some charge of the others, stepped out of her place by me, and danced to and from the baby until it left off crying, and laughed.
-- Flopson, by dint of doubling the baby at the joints like a Dutch doll, then got it safely into Mrs. Pocket's lap, and gave it the nut-crackers to play with; at the same time recommending Mrs. Pocket to take notice that the handles of that instrument were not likely to agree with its eyes, and sharply charging Miss Jane to look after the same.
-- I was made very uneasy in my mind by Mrs. Pocket's falling into a discussion with Drummle respecting two baronetcies, while she ate a sliced orange steeped in sugar and wine, and, forgetting all about the baby on her lap, who did most appalling things with the nut-crackers.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the queen heard this she jumped for joy, and as soon as her little friend came she sat down upon her throne, and called all her court round to enjoy the fun; and the nurse stood by her side with the baby in her arms, as if it was quite ready to be given up.
-- Then he made the best of his way off, while the nurse laughed and the baby crowed; and all the court jeered at him for having had so much trouble for nothing, and said, 'We wish you a very good morning, and a merry feast, Mr RUMPLESTILTSKIN!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The poor girl was almost distracted: that quarter of the palace was all in an uproar; the servants ran for ladders; the monkey was seen by hundreds in the court, sitting upon the ridge of a building, holding me like a baby in one of his forepaws, and feeding me with the other, by cramming into my mouth some victuals he had squeezed out of the bag on one side of his chaps, and patting me when I would not eat; whereat many of the rabble below could not forbear laughing; nei-ther do I think they justly ought to be blamed, for, without question, the sight was ridiculous enough to every body but myself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Enough to give a baby cold,' Mrs. Gradgrind considered.
-- Bring to me, says M'Choakumchild, yonder baby just able to walk, and I will engage that it shall never wonder.
-- Body number three, wrote leaden little books for them, showing how the good grown-up baby invariably got to the Savings-bank, and the bad grown-up baby invariably got transported.
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:
-- Her husband, Ted Bolton, had been killed in the pit, twenty-two years ago, twenty-two years last Christmas, just at Christmas time, leaving her with two children, one a baby in arms.
-- Oh, the baby was married now, Edith, to a young man in Boots Cash Chemists in Sheffield.
-- When the baby could toddle she'd keep both the children for the day, while she, Ivy Bolton, went to Sheffield, and -attended classes in ambulance, and then the fourth year she even took a nursing course and got qualified.
-- But gradu-ally, as she came to the bottom of him, to use her own term, she found he was like the rest, a baby grown to man's pro-portions: but a baby with a queer temper and a fine manner and power in its control, and all sorts of odd knowledge that she had never dreamed of, with which he could still bully her.
-- They went into the living-room, where a baby was sit-ting on the rag hearth rug, and the table was roughly set for tea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pet and her baby sister were so exactly alike, and so completely one, that in our thoughts we have never been able to separate them since.
-- 'In the days of old, Arthur, treated of in this commentary, there were pious men, beloved of the Lord, who would have cursed their sons for less than this: who would have sent them forth, and sent whole nations forth, if such had supported them, to be avoided of God and man, and perish, down to the baby at the breast.
-- And I'll go another seven and sixpence to name which is the helplessest, the unborn baby or you!'
-- The Child of the MarshalseaThe baby whose first draught of air had been tinctured with Doctor Haggage's brandy, was handed down among the generations of collegians, like the tradition of their common parent.
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