get是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 获得, 得到; 使, 使得; 变得, 成为; 到达,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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being be-lated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.
-- It was most in-geniously secured at vacant hours, by a *withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shut-ters; so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out, an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot.
-- And then there were apple pies, and peach pies, and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledy- pigglely, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst Heaven bless the mark!I want breath and time to discuss this banquet as it deserves, and am too eager to get on with my story.
-- The tale was told of old Brouwer, a most heretical disbeliever in ghosts, how he met the Horse-man returning from his foray into Sleepy Hollow, and was obliged to get up behind him; how they galloped over bush and brake, over hill and swamp, until they reached the bridge; when the Horseman suddenly turned into a skel-eton, threw old Brouwer into the brook, and sprang away over the tree-tops with a clap of thunder.
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:
-- "Well, the first thing is to get our proofs.
-- I sever dreamed that Charlie was the sort of man to get infatuated with anyone.
-- It could not have been very easy to be bright and careless with that sudden secret in her heart, nor to give her attention to all the things that needed doing to get her children comfortably packed off.
-- "Well, look here, you get it over, and then we'll have a jolly evening."
-- "She'll get over it."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You were in luck,' said he, 'to get picked up by a ship with a medical man aboard.'
-- After a day of alternate sleep and feeding I was so far re-covered as to be able to get from my bunk to the scuttle, and see the green seas trying to keep pace with us.
-- 'Why the devil don't you get out of the way?'
-- Then, 'When you will be able to get away, I can't say.
-- 'I'm itching to get to work again with this new stuff,' said the white-haired man, noddding towards the enclo- sure.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Night-Song in the Jungle It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one af-ter the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
-- 'Get ready.'
-- The baby was pushing his way between the cubs to get close to the warm hide.
-- He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs frog-eater fish-killer he shall hunt thee!Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world!Go!'
-- Get the Red Flower.'
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:
-- 'I am as ready to do the one as the other; but to fight the Iroquois 'tis necessary to find the skulkers; and to eat, 'tis necessary to get the game talk of the devil and he will come; there is a pair of the biggest antlers I have seen this season, moving the bushes below the hill!Now, Uncas,' he continued, in a half whisper, and laughing with a kind of inward sound, like one who had learned to be watchful, 'I will bet my charger three times full of powder, against a foot of wampum, that I take him atwixt the eyes, and nearer to the right than to the left.'
-- One would think such a horse as that might get over a good deal of ground atwixt sun-up and sun-down.'
-- Pass into the other cave, you that need it, and seek for sleep; we must be afoot long before the sun, and make the most of our time to get to Edward, while the Mingoes are taking their morning nap.'
-- The scout and his companions listened to this simple ex-planation with the interest of men who imbibe new ideas, at the same time that they get rid of old ones, which had proved disagreeable inmates.
-- Uncas' he spoke in Delaware 'Uncas, drop down in the canoe, and whirl a brand among the pack; or fear may do what the wolves can't get at to per-form, and leave us without horses in the morning, when we shall have so much need to journey swiftly!'
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