strife是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 争吵; 冲突, 斗争; 竞争,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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These were inspired of Mars, but the others by Minerva and with them came Panic, Rout, and Strife whose fury never tires, sister and friend of murder-ous Mars, who, from being at first but low in stature, grows till she uprears her head to heaven, though her feet are still on earth.
-- When she had thus spoken Iris left him, and Hector sprang full armed from his chariot to the ground, brandish-ing his spear as he went about everywhere among the host, cheering his men on to fight, and stirring the dread strife of battle.
-- Therefore, perish strife both from among gods and men, and anger, wherein even a righteous man will harden his heart which rises up in the soul of a man like smoke, and the taste thereof is sweeter than drops of honey.
-- With them were Strife and Riot, and fell Fate who was dragging three men after her, one with a fresh wound, and the other unwounded, while the third was dead, and she was dragging him along by his heel: and her robe was bedrabbled in men's blood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Although they had but that moment left the school be-hind them, they were now in the busy thoroughfares of a city, where shadowy passengers passed and repassed; where shadowy carts and coaches battle for the way, and all the strife and tumult of a real city were.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The worst of the strife was over.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was something mortifying in the way he had said "Come, that's good," as one says to a child when it leaves off being naughty, and still more mortifying was the contrast between her penitent and his self-confident tone; and for one instant she felt the lust of strife rising up in her again, but making an effort she conquered it, and met Vronsky as good-humoredly as before.
-- And death rose clearly and vividly before her mind as the sole means of bringing back love for her in his heart, of punishing him and of gaining the victory in that strife which the evil spirit in possession of her heart was waging with him.
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:
-- It was in this scene of strife and bloodshed that the inci-dents we shall attempt to relate occurred, during the third year of the war which England and France last waged for the possession of a country that neither was destined to re-tain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Iwas not happy; but, thus far, I had faithfully set the seal upon thePast, and, thinking of her, pointing upward, thought of her aspointing to that sky above me, where, in the mystery to come, Imight yet love her with a love unknown on earth, and tell her whatthe strife had been within me when I loved her here.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Other voices, silent till now, struck in from boughs lower down and higher up and midway, and to the right and left, and from the tree-tops; and others, arriving hastily from the grey church turrets and old belfry window, joined the clamour which rose and fell, and swelled and dropped again, and still went on; and all this noisy contention amidst a skimming to and fro, and lighting on fresh branches, and frequent change of place, which satirised the old restlessness of those who lay so still beneath the moss and turf below, and the strife in which they had worn away their lives.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He wondered that the request should have come at this moment, for the strife was over, and they were on a most desolate hill, far from every human habitation, and the hour was getting late.
-- In Bathsheba's heated fancy the innocent white countenance expressed a dim triumphant consciousness of the pain she was retaliating for her pain with all the merciless rigour of the Mosaic law: "Burning for burning; wound for wound: strife for strife."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I can describe this strife of the elements!for, instead of fleeing to the depths of the sea, Captain Nemo, by an unaccountable caprice, would brave it at the surface.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In this strife I have almost repulsed and crushed my better angel into a demon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- More than forty years of strife and struggle with the whisper that, by whatever name she called her vindictive pride and rage, nothing through all eternity could change their nature.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But once Tashtego's senior, an old Gay-Head Indian among the crew, superstitiously asserted that not till he was full forty years old did Ahab become that way branded, and then it came upon him, not in the fury of any mortal fray, but in an elemental strife at sea.
-- wife? rather a widow with her husband alive!Aye, I widowed that poor girl when I married her, Starbuck; and then, the madness, the frenzy, the boiling blood and the smoking brow, with which, for a thousand lowerings old Ahab has furiously, foamingly chased his prey more a demon than a man! aye, aye!what a forty years' fool fool old fool, has old Ahab been!Why this strife of the chase?
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