ultimately是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 最终, 最后,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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was thinking this,and wondering what would ultimately become of my box, whichMr. Barkis had put down on the yard-pavement by the pole (hehaving driven up the yard to turn his cart), and also what wouldultimately become of me, when a lady looked out of a bow-window where some fowls and joints of meat were hanging up,and said'Is that the little gentleman from Blunderstone?'
-- Mr. Dolloby- Dolloby wasthe name over the shop-door, at least- took the waistcoat, stood hispipe on its head against the door-post, went into the shop, 175followed by me, snuffed the two candles with his fingers, spreadthe waistcoat on the counter, and looked at it there, held it upagainst the light, and looked at it there, and ultimately said'Whatdo you call a price, now, for this here little weskit?'
-- You may, perhaps, be prepared to hear that Mrs. Micawber is in astate of health which renders it not wholly improbable that anaddition may be ultimately made to those pledges of affectionwhich- in short, to the infantine group.
-- After perusing it, I taxed Miss Spenlow with having many suchletters in her possession; and ultimately obtained from her, thepacket which is now in David Copperfield's hand.'
-- Ultimately Ifound myself backing Traddles into the fireplace, and bowing ingreat confusion to two dry little elderly ladies, dressed in black,and each looking wonderfully like a preparation in chip or tan ofthe late Mr. Spenlow.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But if she was to be the practical woman she had intended to show herself, business must be carried on, introductions or none, and she ultimately acquired confidence enough to speak and reply boldly to men merely known to her by hearsay.
-- He spoke to her in low tones, and she instinctively modulated her own to the same pitch, and her voice ultimately even caught the inflection of his.
-- Bathsheba's eyes, shaded by one hand, were following the ascending multitude against the unexplorable stretch of blue till they ultimately halted by one of the unwieldy trees spoken of.
-- Bathsheba's perturbed meditations by the roadside had ultimately evolved a conclusion that there were only two remedies for the present desperate state of affairs.
-- During this time two black spiders, of the kind common in thatched houses, promenaded the ceiling, ultimately dropping to the floor.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.'
-- The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Having borne this flattering testimony to the merits of our dwelling-place, and having incidentally shown this tendency to call me "sir," Joe, being invited to sit down to table, looked all round the room for a suitable spot on which to deposit his hat,--as if it were only on some very few rare substances in nature that it could find a resting place,--and ultimately stood it on an extreme corner of the chimney-piece, from which it ever afterwards fell off at intervals.
-- A teaboard, cups and saucers, plates, knives and forks (including carvers), spoons (various), saltcellars, a meek little muffin confined with the utmost precaution under a strong iron cover, Moses in the bulrushes typified by a soft bit of butter in a quantity of parsley, a pale loaf with a powdered head, two proof impressions of the bars of the kitchen fireplace on triangular bits of bread, and ultimately a fat family urn; which the waiter staggered in with, expressing in his countenance burden and suffering.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have undertaken then to let you know that in short, that Mr. Bounderby has informed me that he has long watched your progress with particular interest and pleasure, and has long hoped that the time might ultimately arrive when he should offer you his hand in marriage.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If the true medium of our difficulties did not increase, it was within the range of possibility that we might ultimately reach the end of our journey.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet he could live alone, in the wan satisfaction of being alone, and raise pheasants to be shot ultimately by fat men after breakfast.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The rest of the party were of the usual materials: travellers on business, and travellers for pleasure; officers from India on leave; merchants in the Greek and Turkey trades; a clerical English husband in a meek strait-waistcoat, on a wedding trip with his young wife; a majestic English mama and papa, of the patrician order, with a family of three growing-up daughters, who were keeping a journal for the confusion of their fellow-creatures; and a deaf old English mother, tough in travel, with a very decidedly grown-up daughter indeed, which daughter went sketching about the universe in the expectation of ultimately toning herself off into the married state.
-- Ultimately the voice stopped, and they all came back again, more or less out of breath, folding themselves in their shawls, and making ready for the streets.
-- 'And after all,' cried Gowan, with that characteristic balancing of his which reduced everything in the wide world to the same light weight, 'though I can't deny that the Circumlocution Office may ultimately shipwreck everybody and everything, still, that will probably not be in our time and it's a school for gentlemen.'
-- Ultimately he was inclined to think that there was no reverence in the man, no sentiment in the great creature.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into Squid.
-- Ultimately the defendants (the crew of another ship) came up with the whale, struck, killed, seized, and finally appropriated it before the very eyes of the plaintiffs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By dint of alternate threats, promises, and bribes, the lady in question was ultimately prevailed upon to undertake the commission.
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