sentence是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 句子; 判决, 宣判v. 宣判, 判决,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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Never did a fragile tailless sentence convey a more perfect meaning.
-- "Think if you will, and be " The sentence was completed by a smart cut of the whip round Poppet's flank, which caused the animal to start forward at a wild pace.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thus I might proclaim myself a madman, but not revoke the sentence passed upon my wretched vic-tim.
-- The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; and it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been 144 Frankensteinthe cause of his condemnation.
-- His sentence was pronounced, and I could only grieve and be patient.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At that time, it was the custom (as I learnt from my terrible experience of that Sessions) to devote a concluding day to the passing of Sentences, and to make a finishing effect with the Sentence of Death.
-- But for the indelible picture that my remembrance now holds before me, I could scarcely believe, even as I write these words, that I saw two-and-thirty men and women put before the Judge to receive that sentence together.
-- Rising for a moment, a distinct speck of face in this way of light, the prisoner said, "My Lord, I have received my sentence of Death from the Almighty, but I bow to yours," and sat down again.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was strictly enjoined, that the project of starving you by degrees should be kept a secret; but the sentence of putting out your eyes was entered on the books; none dissenting, except Bolgolam the admiral, who, being a creature of the empress, was perpetually instigated by her majesty to insist upon your death, she having borne perpetual malice against you, on account of that infamous 83and illegal method you took to extinguish the fire in her apartment.
-- Besides, I had learnt their alphabet, and could make a shift to explain a sentence here and there; for Glumdalclitch had been my instructor while we were at home, and at leisure hours during our journey.
-- Then I took down the sentence in writing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "To me it appears probable that this sentence was written by some owner of the book.
-- Until I discover the meaning of this sentence I will neither eat nor sleep."
-- No doubt a certain sentence has been written out and then jumbled up--some plan to which some figure is the clue.
-- The first and the last might, in a sentence connected with Iceland, mean sea of ice.
-- "Look at the sentence as dictated by you."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Don't name it, sir,' returned Plornish, 'it'll be ekally a pleasure an a it'l be ekally a pleasure and a ' Finding himself unable to balance his sentence after two efforts, Mr Plornish wisely dropped it.
-- The parrot had shrieked another shriek; and it filled up the sentence so expressively that Mrs Merdle was under no necessity to end it.
-- However, it's worth an inquiry; and as I would rather make it in company than alone, and as you too were a fellow-traveller of that immovable woman's, I thought perhaps ' Clennam finished the sentence for him by taking up his hat again, and saying he was ready.
-- The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thickenThe shady waiting-rooms of the Circumlocution Office, where he passed a good deal of time in company with various troublesome Convicts who were under sentence to be broken alive on that wheel, had afforded Arthur Clennam ample leisure, in three or four successive days, to exhaust the subject of his late glimpse of Miss Wade and Tattycoram.
-- Though not conceited, Mrs Plornish felt that she had turned this Tuscan sentence with peculiar elegance.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Girls, girls, do be quiet one minute!I must get this off by the early mail, and you drive me distracted with your worry,' cried Mrs. March, crossing out the third spoiled sentence in her letter.
-- If it had been anyone else I'd have...' And the injured youth finished his sentence by an energetic ges-ture of the right arm.
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