very是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 很, 非常; 完全a. 正是的; 真正, 真实的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.
-- But what did Scrooge care!It was the very thing he liked.
-- Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.
-- 'He died seven years ago, this very night.'
-- 'Both very busy, sir.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally defi-cient in originality) rapped out theirs.
-- It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands A tale of two citiesadjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revo-lution.
-- In those days, travellers were very shy of being confidential on a short notice, for anybody on the road might be a rob-ber or in league with robbers.
-- The stillness consequent on the cessation of the rum-bling and labouring of the coach, added to the stillness of the night, made it very quiet indeed.
-- He had eyes that assorted very well with that decoration, being of a surface black, with no depth in the colour or form, and much too near together as if they were afraid of being found out in something, singly, if they kept too far apart.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So the two pretended weavers set up two looms, and affected to work very busily, though in reality they did nothing at all.
-- thought the old man, opening his eyes very wide.
-- The impostors requested him very courteously to be so good as to come nearer their looms; and then asked him whether the design pleased him, and whether the colors were not very beautiful; at the same time pointing to the empty frames.
-- The poor old minister looked and looked, he could not discover anything on the looms, for a very good reason, viz: there was nothing there.
-- 'This pattern, and the col-ors, yes, I will tell the Emperor without delay, how very beautiful I think them.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Yes, it was nice, very nice.
-- There happened to him at that instant what does happen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful.
-- One was very unpleasant, from a merchant who was buying a forest on his wife's property.
-- The liberal party said, or rather allowed it to be understood, that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service without his legs aching from standing up, and could never make out what was the object of all the terrible and high-flown language about another world when life might be so very amusing in this world.
-- "And very likely the maids were listening!Horribly vulgar!
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He talked very little, and seemed all the more mysterious for his taciturn manner.
-- On this very 2nd of October he had dismissed James Forster, because that luckless youth had brought him shaving-water at eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit instead of eighty-six; and he was awaiting his successor, who was due at the house between eleven and half-past.
-- Phileas Fogg was, indeed, exactitude personified, and this was betrayed even in the expression of his very hands and feet; for in men, as well as in animals, the limbs themselves are expressive of the passions.
-- In short, the house in Saville Row, which must have been a very temple of disorder and unrest under the illustrious but dissipated Sheridan, was cosiness, comfort, and method idealised.
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