even是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 一致的, 双数的, 均等的 vt. 使平坦 ad. 即使,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communication; should Phileas Fogg once miss, even by an hour; a steamer, he would have to wait for the next, and that would irrevocably render his attempt vain.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even in so energetically virtuous an institution as Winnemac there was one Wild Man, and he was Norman Brumfit.
-- Ira believed that he could bring even medical students to bliss, which, to Ira, meant singing extraordinarily long and unlovely hymns in a chapel of the Sanctification Brotherhood.
-- Clif was the clown of the fraternity house, he was given to raucous laughter, he clogged and sang meaningless songs, he even practiced on the cornet, yet he was somehow a good fellow and solid, and Martin, in his detestation of Ira Hinkley, his fear of Angus Duer, his pity for Fatty Pfaff, his distaste for the amiable dullness of Irving Watters, turned to the roaring Clif as to something living and experimenting.
-- The Regents were the supreme rulers of the University; they were bankers and manufacturers and pastors of large churches; to them even the president was humble.
-- He growled, "This is outrageous!I'm going to expose Clawson, even if he is a frat- brother of mine."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was so badly dressed that even a man accustomed to shabbiness would have been ashamed to be seen in the street in such rags.
-- It was a back staircase, dark and narrow, but he was familiar with it already, and knew his way, and he liked all these sur-roundings: in such darkness even the most inquisitive eyes were not to be dreaded.
-- As he went down the stairs, he even stopped short, two or three times, as though suddenly struck by some thought.
-- But even at that moment he had a dim foreboding that this happier frame of mind was also not normal.
-- The young man often recalled this impression - afterwards, and even ascribed it to presentiment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There is something strange to me, even now, in the reflection thathe never saw me; and something stranger yet in the shadowyremembrance that I have of my first childish associations with hiswhite gravestone in the churchyard, and of the indefinablecompassion I used to feel for it lying out alone there in the darknight, when our little parlour was warm and bright with fire andcandle, and the doors of our house were- almost cruelly, it seemedto me sometimes- bolted and locked against it.
-- Miss Trotwood, or Miss Betsey, as my poor mother always calledher, when she sufficiently overcame her dread of this formidablepersonage to mention her at all (which was seldom), had beenmarried to a husband younger than herself, who was veryhandsome, except in the sense of the homely adage, 'handsome is,that handsome does'- for he was strongly suspected of havingbeaten Miss Betsey, and even of having once, on a disputedquestion of supplies, made some hasty but determinedarrangements to throw her out of a two pair of stairs' window.
-- My mother was, no doubt, unusually youthful inappearance even for her years; she hung her head, as if it were herfault, poor thing, and said, sobbing, that indeed she was afraid shewas but a childish widow, and would be but a childish mother ifshe lived.
-- Copperfield,' returned mymother, 'is dead, and if you dare to speak unkindly of him to me-'My poor dear mother, I suppose, had some momentary intention ofcommitting an assault and battery upon my aunt, who could easilyhave settled her with one hand, even if my mother had been in farbetter training for such an encounter than she was that evening.
-- His hair and whiskers were blacker andthicker, looked at so near, than even I had given them credit forbeing.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold the nominal office of governess, the mild-ness of her temper had hardly allowed her to impose any restraint; and the shadow of authority being now long passed away, they had been living together as friend and friend very mutually attached, and Emma doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgment, but di-rected chiefly by her own.
-- She had many acquaintance in the place, for her father was universally civ-il, but not one among them who could be accepted in lieu of Miss Taylor for even half a day.
-- Some people even talked of a promise to his wife on her deathbed, and others of the son and the uncle not letting him.
-- He had, by that time, realised an easy competence enough to secure the purchase of a little estate adjoining Highbury, which he had always longed for enough to marry a wom-an as portionless even as Miss Taylor, and to live according to the wishes of his own friendly and social disposition.
-- He had never been an unhappy man; his own temper had secured him from that, even in his first marriage; but his second must shew him how de-lightful a well-judging and truly amiable woman could be, and must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In his face one might notice that many of the hues and curves of youth had tarried on to manhood: there even remained in his remoter crannies some relics of the boy.
-- A close examination of the ground hereabout, even by the wan starlight only, revealed how a portion of what would have been casually called a wild slope had been appropriated by Farmer Oak for his great purpose this winter.
-- The inside of the hut, as it now presented itself, was cosy and alluring, and the scarlet handful of fire in addition to the candle, reflecting its own genial colour upon whatever it could reach, flung associations of enjoyment even over utensils and tools.
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