surpass是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 超越; 超过, 胜过,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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was returning from Oechalia, where Eurytus lived and reigned, and boasted that he would surpass even the Muses, daugh-ters of aegis-bearing Jove, if they should sing against him; whereon they were angry, and maimed him.
-- Then spoke Thoas son of Andraemon, leader of the Ae-tolians, a man who could throw a good throw, and who was staunch also in close fight, while few could surpass him in debate when opinions were divided.
-- In chariot-racing alone did the two sons of Actor surpass me by crowding their horses in front of me, for they were angry at the way victory had gone, and at the greater part of the prizes remaining in the place in which they had been offered.
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:
-- As the psalms of David exceed all other lan-guage, so does the psalmody that has been fitted to them by the divines and sages of the land, surpass all vain poet-ry.
-- Nothing could surpass the reverence and affection with which this unexpected visit from one who belongs rather to another world than to this, was received by his people.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Do not we rather surpass your expecta-tions?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS SNOW A MEETINGFor dreariness nothing could surpass a prospect in the outskirts of a certain town and military station, many miles north of Weatherbury, at a later hour on this same snowy evening if that may be called a prospect of which the chief constituent was darkness.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A new play will appear at the Barnville Theatre, in the course of a few weeks, which will surpass anything ever seen on the American stage.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with ravished Europa clinging to his graceful horns; his lovely, leering eyes sideways intent upon the maid; with smooth bewitching fleetness, rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete; not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme!did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely swam.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Oh!certainly,' cried his faithful assistant, 'no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The mother's consternation was excessive; but it could not surpass the alarm of the Miss Steeles, and every thing was done by all three, in so critical an emergency, which affection could suggest as likely to assuage the agonies of the little sufferer.
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