difference是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 差别, 差异, 分歧,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:
-- 'There is a vast difference between understanding and speaking a foreign tongue; you will, therefore, please to assist me still.'
-- 'By the Lord, if the Oneidas are outlying upon the trail, we shall by flanked by devils on every side of us!Now, to white eyes there is no difference between this bit of skin and that of any other In-dian, and yet the Sagamore declares it came from the poll of a Mingo; nay, he even names the tribe of the poor devil, with as much ease as if the scalp was the leaf of a book, and each hair a letter.
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:
-- "It may be a lack of sympathy in myself if it does not make any great difference to me that she is dead.
-- As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is sufficient to throw out the lightest article to produce a difference in its vertical position.
-- It could be seen that there existed, in round numbers, a difference of five hours between the meridian of Washington and that of Lincoln Island, that is to say, it was midday in Lincoln Island when it was already five o'clock in the evening in Washington.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Would these two travellers make much difference to the horses, if we took them with us?'
-- 'They'd make a difference in course,' said George doggedly.
-- 'She was well enough, I don't deny that; but think how she was dressed and painted, and what a difference that made.
-- Such is the difference between yesterday and today.
-- Thus, he was in a condition to relate the exact circumstances of the difference between the Marquis of Mizzler and Lord Bobby, which it appeared originated in a disputed bottle of champagne, and not in a pigeon-pie, as erroneously reported in the newspapers; neither had Lord Bobby said to the Marquis of Mizzler, 'Mizzler, one of us two tells a lie, and I'm not the man,' as incorrectly stated by the same authorities; but 'Mizzler, you know where I'm to be found, and damme, sir, find me if you want me' which, of course, entirely changed the aspect of this interesting question, and placed it in a very different light.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The aunts had never seen such men, nor did they know that his debts ran up to two hundred thousand rubles, which--he knew--would never be paid, and that therefore twenty-five rubles more or less made no appreciable difference in his accounts.
-- The difference between him as he was then and as he was now was great; it was equally great, if not greater, than the difference between Katiousha in the church and that girl whom they had tried this morning.
-- However great the difference between that which he was and that which he wished to be, for the awakened spiritual being everything was possible.
-- Notwithstanding the difference in their age--Maslenikoff was about forty--they familiarly "thoued" each other.
-- The only difference between them is that this one speaks openly and plainly, while the other pretends to be exercising higher and refined feelings.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
-- Then, think how narrow the gap between a negro and a white man of our own times, and how wide the interval between myself and these of the Golden Age!I was sensible of much which was unseen, and which contributed to my comfort; but save for a general impression of automatic organisation, I fear I can convey very little of the difference to your mind.
-- "At first, proceeding from the problems of our own age, it seemed clear as daylight to me that the gradual widening of the present merely temporary and social difference between the Capitalist and the Labourer was the key to the whole position.
-- This difference in aspect suggested a difference in use, and I was minded to push on and explore.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'That wouldn't be very nice, I'm afraid ''Not very nice alone,' he interrupted, quite eagerly: 'but you've no idea what a difference it makes mixing it with other things such as gunpowder and sealing-wax.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a vast difference noticeable between these consummate apparatuses and the old cork breastplates, jackets, and other contrivances in vogue during the eighteenth century.
-- "The tides are not strong in the Pacific: you are right there, Professor; but in Torres Straits one finds still a difference of a yard and a half between the level of high and low seas.
-- At least I concluded so by the difference of their tones and gestures.
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