release是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. /n. 释放; 发表,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I made no ado, but set to work on the biscuits at once, while the white-haired man helped Montgomery to release about a score more of the rabbits.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At least, release my gentle sister, and pour out all your malice on me.
-- The impatient Duncan now made several hasty and desperate propositions to attempt the release of the sisters.
-- While you, therefore, are negotiating with your friends for the release of one of the sisters, I will effect that of the other, or die.'
-- The maiden struggled gently to release herself, and Hey-ward was compelled to part with his precious burden.
-- I might consent to go into winter quarters, now at least six weeks afore the leaves will turn on condi- tion you will release the maiden.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of his thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.
-- I saw a tormented spirit striving for the release of expression.
-- I do not know what infinite yearning possesses you, so that you are driven to a perilous, lonely search for some goal where you expect to find a final release from the spirit that torments you.
-- Perhaps it is Truth and Freedom that you seek, and for a moment you thought that you might find release in Love.
-- It is possible that Strickland hated the normal release of sex because it seemed to him brutal by comparison with the satisfaction of artistic creation.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nekhludoff had heard that an army officer was courting her, and while he was tormented by jealousy, he was at the same time gladdened by the hope of release from the oppressive lie.
-- The foreman insisted that she was guilty of both the poisoning and robbery; the merchant, colonel, clerk and laborer opposed this view, while the others hesitated, but the opinion of the foreman began to predominate, principally because the jury were tired out, and they willingly joined the side which promised to prevail the sooner, and consequently release them quicker.
-- Maslova and Miss Dandy sprang up and took hold of the hands of the red-haired woman, endeavoring to release her hold on Korableva, but the hand that clutched the hair would not open.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the yard, was the insolvent whose utmost energies were always set on getting into debt, who broke into prison with as much pains as other men have broken out of it, and who was always being cleared and complimented; while the insolvent at his elbow a mere little, snivelling, striving tradesman, half dead of anxious efforts to keep out of debt found it a hard matter, indeed, to get a Commissioner to release him with much reproof and reproach.
-- Then she sank upon her own bed, and fell into a deep sleep: the sleep of exhaustion and rest, though not of complete release from a pervading consciousness of affliction.
-- Well understanding what was meant by the convenient phrase, and wanting a companion with a knowledge of what I knew, I thought I would try to release the girl from her bondage and sense of injustice.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The moment of her release from him was ecstasy.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I showed him all that was sent to me; I told him that, next to the providence of Heaven, which disposed all things, it was owing to him; and that it now lay on me to reward him, which I would do a hundred-fold: so I first re-turned to him the hundred moidores I had received of him; then I sent for a notary, and caused him to draw up a gen-eral release or discharge from the four hundred and seventy moidores, which he had acknowledged he owed me, in the fullest and firmest manner possible.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Though aware, before she began it, that it must bring a confession of his inconstancy, and confirm their separation for ever, she was not aware that such language could be suffered to announce it; nor could she have supposed Willoughby capable of departing so far from the appearance of every honourable and delicate feeling so far from the common decorum of a gentleman, as to send a letter so impudently cruel: a letter which, instead of bringing with his desire of a release any professions of regret, acknowledged no breach of faith, denied all peculiar affection whatever a letter of which every line was an insult, and which proclaimed its writer to be deep in hardened villainy.
-- CHAPTER 49Unaccountable, however, as the circumstances of his release might appear to the whole family, it was certain that Edward was free; and to what purpose that freedom would be employed was easily pre-determined by all; for after experiencing the blessings of ONE imprudent engagement, contracted without his mother's consent, as he had already done for more than four years, nothing less could be expected of him in the failure of THAT, than the immediate contraction of another.
-- Mrs. Dashwood, too happy to be comfortable, knew not how to love Edward, nor praise Elinor enough, how to be enough thankful for his release without wounding his delicacy, nor how at once to give them leisure for unrestrained conversation together, and yet enjoy, as she wished, the sight and society of both.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- and the new owner won't release it to us.
-- Now the track was quickly cleared and the release effected.
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