conceal是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 隐藏, 隐蔽,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:
-- The Frenchman bit his lip, and fastened his eyes keenly on the other as if to read his thoughts; then, with a readi-ness peculiar to himself, he continued, as if assenting to the truth of an enumeration which quite doubled his army: 'It is a poor compliment to the vigilance of us soldiers, monsieur, that, do what we will, we never can conceal our numbers.
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:
-- I tried to conceal my embarrassment by handing round cups of tea and rather ill-cut bread-and-butter.
-- He had some reason to conceal the fact that he had run away with a woman, and he was using every precaution to hide her whereabouts.
-- No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
-- She was civil and affable, but she could hardly conceal her intimate conviction that she was not quite as others were.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The reporter and the sailor talked with him, and he could not conceal his astonishment.
-- Let Spilett and Herbert conceal themselves behind those rocks and fire on all that may appear."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nobody venturing to dispute these positions, he proceeded to observe that the human hair was a great retainer of tobacco-smoke, and that the young gentlemen of Westminster and Eton, after eating vast quantities of apples to conceal any scent of cigars from their anxious friends, were usually detected in consequence of their heads possessing this remarkable property; when he concluded that if the Royal Society would turn their attention to the circumstance, and endeavour to find in the resources of science a means of preventing such untoward revelations, they might indeed be looked upon as benefactors to mankind.
-- This undeveloped was the possibility, which Richard Swiveller sought to conceal even from himself, of his not being proof against the charms of Miss Wackles, and in some unguarded moment, by linking his fortunes to hers forever, of putting it out of his own power to further their notable scheme to which he had so readily become a party.
-- In the midst of her grief and tears she was yet careful to conceal their real cause from the old man, for the dead boy had been a grandchild, and left but one aged relative to mourn his premature decay.
-- To this, the figure beckoned them; at the same time drawing within its rays, as if to show that it had no desire to conceal itself or take them at an advantage.
-- The man stared on receiving these instructions, for the single gentleman had not only displayed as much astonishment as Kit's mother at sight of the dwarf, but, standing in no fear of him, had been at less pains to conceal his dislike and repugnance.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That afterward, desiring to conceal the traces of her crime, she returned with the merchant to the inn and administered poison to him.
-- It was reported to the Governor that something like a mutiny occurred, and in answer came a document ordering that the two chief culprits, Vasilieff and the tramp Don'tremember (an application given to some tramps and jail birds who, to conceal the identity, with characteristic ingenuity and stupidity make that answer to all questions relating to their names), be given thirty lashes each.
-- "No, I do not conceal anything I say or do from anybody."
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The fog was rapidly dispersing; already the moon shone quite clear on the high ground on either side; and it was only in the exact bottom of the dell and round the tavern door that a thin veil still hung unbroken to conceal the first steps of our escape.
-- He did not know, to be sure, that I had overheard his council from the apple barrel, and yet I had by this time taken such a horror of his cruelty, duplicity, and power that I could scarce conceal a shudder when he laid his hand upon my arm.
-- in the world; and when there was nothing else to do, he kept up one song after another, as if to conceal the discontent of the rest.
-- I was prompt with my answer, however, for I saw where my advantage lay and that with a fellow so densely stupid I could easily conceal my suspicions to the end.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Imprisonment was not enough to conceal Captain Nemo's projects from us, sleep was more necessary.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He made no attempt to conceal it.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She slipped her fork to the floor, and hastily dived under the cloth to conceal her emotion.
-- She never had power to conceal her passion, it always set her whole complexion in a blaze.
-- Neither of us wished to mention Heathcliff's absence, as long as we could conceal it; so I replied, I didn't know how she took it into her head to sit up; and she said nothing.
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