twice是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 两次, 两倍,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《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Once or twice I had a feeling of intense fear for which I could perceive no definite reason.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Number one: you squeaked twice while Dinah was washing your face this morning.
-- If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!'
-- It's as large as life, and twice as natural!'
-- 'The Monster has given the Lion twice as much as me!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And just the same whistle that had alarmed my mother and myself over the dead captain's money was once more clearly audible through the night, but this time twice repeated.
-- I might have been twice as weary, yet I would not have left the deck, all was so new and interesting to me the brief commands, the shrill note of the whistle, the men bustling to their places in the glimmer of the ship's lanterns.
-- Silver, agile as a monkey even without leg or crutch, was on the top of him next moment and had twice buried his knife up to the hilt in that defenceless body.
-- But he was twice the man the rest were, and his last night's victory had given him a huge preponderance on their minds.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Twice I went to the saloon.
-- The mountain did not rise more than seven or eight hundred feet above the level of the plain; but on the opposite side it commanded from twice that height the depths of this part of the Atlantic.
-- It was twice the height it was when the Nautilus had gone under the waves.
-- Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.
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:
-- And once or twice lately, when he was alone in the evening and had nothing to do, he had suddenly stood up in terror, not knowing what he was.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have passed it really in my walks, twice or thrice; it lies in a hollow, between two hills: an elevated hollow, near a swamp, whose peaty moisture is said to answer all the purposes of embalming on the few corpses deposited there.
-- You are younger, and yet, I'll be bound, you are taller and twice as broad across the shoulders; you could knock him down in a twinkling; don't you feel that you could?'
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