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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By this time it blew a terrible storm indeed; and now I began to see terror and amazement in the faces even of the seamen themselves.
-- Had I now had the sense to have gone back to Hull, and have gone home, I had been happy, and my father, as in our blessed Saviour's parable, had even killed the fatted calf for me; for hearing the ship I went away in was cast away in Yarmouth Roads, it was a great while before he had any as-surances that I was not drowned.
-- I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruc-tion, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.
-- As to going home, shame opposed the best motions that offered to my thoughts, and it immediately occurred to me how I should be laughed at among the neighbours, and should be ashamed to see, not my father and mother only, but even everybody else; from whence I have since of-ten observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases - viz.
-- CHAPTER II - SLAVERY AND ESCAPETHAT evil influence which carried me first away from my father's house - which hurried me into the wild and indi-gested notion of raising my fortune, and that impressed those conceits so forcibly upon me as to make me deaf to all good advice, and to the entreaties and even the commands of my father - I say, the same influence, whatever it was, pre-sented the most unfortunate of all enterprises to my view; and I went on board a vessel bound to the coast of Africa; or, as our sailors vulgarly called it, a voyage to Guinea.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Had he married a more amiable woman, he might have been made still more respectable than he was: he might even have been made amiable himself; for he was very young when he married, and very fond of his wife.
-- "Oh!beyond anything great!What brother on earth would do half so much for his sisters, even if REALLY his sisters!And as it is only half blood! But you have such a generous spirit!"
-- No one, at least, can think I have not done enough for them: even themselves, they can hardly expect more."
-- It may be very inconvenient some years to spare a hundred, or even fifty pounds from our own expenses."
-- She speedily comprehended all his merits; the persuasion of his regard for Elinor perhaps assisted her penetration; but she really felt assured of his worth: and even that quietness of manner, which militated against all her established ideas of what a young man's address ought to be, was no longer uninteresting when she knew his heart to be warm and his temper affectionate.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Columbia City was not so very far away, even once she was in Chicago.
-- In 1889 Chicago had the peculiar qualifications of growth which made such adventuresome pilgrimages even on the part of young girls plausible.
-- They were pretty in the main, some even handsome, with an air of independence and indifference which added, in the case of the more favoured, a certain piquancy.
-- These were slightly more even than common, and gave her a sweet, reserved, and pleasing appearance.
-- In the night, or the gloomy chambers of the day, fears and misgivings wax strong, but out in the sunlight there is, for a time, cessation even of the terror of death.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He never could go after even a turnip-cart but he must have the swords and guns all scoured up for it, though they was only lath and broomsticks, and you might scour at them till you rotted, and then they warn't worth a mouthful of ashes more than what they was before.
-- I told him I had an old slick counterfeit quarter that warn't no good because the brass showed through the sil-ver a little, and it wouldn't pass nohow, even if the brass didn't show, because it was so slick it felt greasy, and so that would tell on it every time.
-- Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe, It was mighty cool and shady in the deep woods, even if the sun was blazing outside.
-- Jim said nobody would know me, even in the daytime, hardly.
-- We didn't touch an oar, and we didn't speak nor whisper, nor hardly even breathe.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He threw it to the floor, against the walls of the room, and even up to the ceiling.
-- His face had changed; fright had turned even the tip of his nose from red to deepest purple.
-- "Today, however, this room is mine," said the Marionette, "and if you wish to do me a favor, get out now, and don't turn around even once."
-- He ran about the room, dug in all the boxes and drawers, and even looked under the bed in search of a piece of bread, hard though it might be, or a cookie, or perhaps a bit of fish.
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