borrow是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 借, 借入; (思想、 文字等) 采用, 抄袭,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Well, you'll both hear and see him soon; he even tries to borrow money from me.
-- Of course, my aim was to borrow money all along, and you ... you asked the question as if there was nothing blameable in it as if you thought it quite natural.'
-- 'Why not, after confessing, borrow money from him?'
-- You were going to employ your tears as a ruse in order to borrow money, but you also say in fact, you have sworn to the fact that independently of this your confession was made with an honourable motive.
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:
-- Here they made friends with others in as desperate condition as themselves, and when they were penniless and the night was bitter cold, they were glad to borrow from anyone who had earned a stray franc during the day the price of a roof over their heads.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If it was so, the engineer thought that it might perhaps be possible to utilize this fall and borrow its power, actually lost without profit to any one.
-- "Bears," said he, "are generally very well dressed, and I ask no more than to borrow for the winter the warm cloaks which they have on their backs."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'At the same time, Christopher,' added Mr Garland, glancing at the note in his hand, 'if the gentleman should want to borrow you now and then for an hour or so, or even a day or so, at a time, we must consent to lend you, and you must consent to be lent. Oh!here is the young gentleman.
-- Borrow it, I say, and, when you're able, pay it back again.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I now borrow from the daily notes of Master Conseil.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now she remembered the little umbrella, which she had forgotten to take in her hurry to be off, but regret was unavailing, and nothing could be done but borrow one or submit to to a drenching.
-- Jo, I'm ashamed of you!No, you shall not go there to borrow an umbrella, or find out where he is, from his friends.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue of the shroud in which we wrap them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Against staying longer, however, Elizabeth was positively resolved nor did she much expect it would be asked; and fearful, on the contrary, as being considered as intruding themselves needlessly long, she urged Jane to borrow Mr. Bingley's carriage immediately, and at length it was settled that their original design of leaving Netherfield that morning should be mentioned, and the request made.
-- We dressed up Cham-berlayne in woman's clothes on purpose to pass for a lady, only think what fun!Not a soul knew of it, but Colonel and Mrs. Forster, and Kitty and me, except my aunt, for we were forced to borrow one of her gowns; and you cannot imagine how well he looked!When Denny, and Wickham, and Pratt, and two or three more of the men came in, they did not know him in the least.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But there are many works well worth reading at the Park; and there are others of more modern production which I know I can borrow of Colonel Brandon.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She did not want to borrow of Minnie for that.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That law trial was a slow business appeared like they warn't ever going to get started on it; so every now and then I'd borrow two or three dollars off of the judge for him, to keep from getting a cowhiding.
-- He went up-town with the man I was telling you of, to get a boat and see if they could borrow another gun.
-- Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it.
-- Jim said he reckoned the widow was partly right and pap was partly right; so the best way would be for us to pick out two or three things from the list and say we wouldn't borrow them any more then he reckoned it wouldn't be no harm to borrow the others.
-- 'And besides,' I says, 'we might borrow something worth having out of the captain's stateroom.
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