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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And what was stranger, even to his heavy intelligence, on the bedroom chair and along the rail of the bed were scattered the garments, the only garments so far as he knew, and the bandages of their guest.
-- His big slouch hat even was cocked jauntily over the bed-post.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And even as I lay there I saw, with no more interest than if it had been a picture, a sail come up towards me over the sky-line.
-- 'Even now the mutton is boiling.'
-- Fastened by chains to the mainmast were a number of grisly staghounds, who now began leaping and barking at me, and by the miz-zen a huge puma was cramped in a little iron cage far too small even to give it turning room.
-- The captain began some abuse even fouler than the last.
-- However, I was glad to avert what was uncommonly near a scuffle, even at the price of the captain's drunken ill-will.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
-- A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can, if neces-sary, mouth an egg without breaking it, and though Father Wolf's jaws closed right on the child's back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs.
-- Even where he was, Shere Khan's shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man's would be if he tried to fight in a barrel.
-- Akela never even twitched his ears.
-- Baloo knows it; I know it; the Pack know it; and even the foolish, foolish deer know.
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:
-- He will express a phrase in a word, and he will qualify the meaning of an entire sentence by a syllable; he will even convey dif-ferent significations by the simplest inflections of the voice.
-- There are fashionable and well-attended wa-tering-places at and near the spring where Hawkeye halted to drink, and roads traverse the forests where he and his friends were compelled to journey without even a path.
-- Glen's has a large village; and while William Henry, and even a fortress of later date, are only to be traced as ruins, there is another village on the shores of the Horican.
-- While, in the pursuit of their daring plans of annoyance, the restless enterprise of the French even attempted the dis-tant and difficult gorges of the Alleghany, it may easily be imagined that their proverbial acuteness would not overlook the natural advantages of the district we have just described.
-- As the credulous and excited traveler related the hazardous chances of the wil-derness, the blood of the timid curdled with terror, and mothers cast anxious glances even at those children which slumbered within the security of the largest towns.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When school hours were over, he was even the com-panion and playmate of the larger boys; and on holiday afternoons would convoy some of the smaller ones home, who happened to have pretty sisters, or good housewives for mothers, noted for the comforts of the cupboard.
-- Certain it is, his voice The Legend of Sleepy Hollowresounded far above all the rest of the congregation; and there are peculiar quavers still to be heard in that church, and which may even be heard half a mile off, quite to the opposite side of the mill-pond, on a still Sunday morning, which are said to be legitimately descended from the nose of Ichabod Crane.
-- She was withal a little of a coquette, as might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set of her charms.
-- In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its giz- zard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if crav- ing that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.
-- Balt Van Tassel was an easy indul-gent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything.
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:
-- The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.
-- And if I may judge from the reviews, many of these books are well and carefully written; much thought has gone to their composition; to some even has been given the anxious labour of a lifetime.
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