adventure是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 冒险, 冒险活动, 奇遇vt. 大胆进行,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I don't pretend it is that, but still, after all, such an adventure would not be very unpleasant to me.
-- They were satisfied that he had come off safe and sound from his adventure with the forecastle gun.
-- This was the only adventure of his grand voyage that Paganel could never get over, and he always bore a grudge to New Zealand on account of it.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The promise of adventure had always a fascination for me, and I was complimented by the words of Holmes and by the eagerness with which the baronet hailed me as a com-panion.
-- I have always felt that there was something singular and questionable in this man's character, but the adventure of last night brings all my suspicions to a head.
-- Before breakfast on the morning following my adventure I went down the corridor and examined the room in which Barrymore had been on the night before.
-- Sir Henry rubbed his hands with pleasure, and it was evident that he hailed the adventure as a relief to his somewhat quiet life upon the moor.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had half a mind to drown myself then; but an odd wish to see the whole adventure out, a queer, impersonal, spectacular interest in myself, restrained me.
-- I went with him to see the adventure out.
-- Montgom-ery told me that the Law, especially among the feline Beast People, became oddly weakened about nightfall; that then the animal was at its strongest; that a spirit of adventure sprang up in them at the dusk, when they would dare things they never seemed to dream about by day.
-- Neither the captain nor the mate would be-lieve my story, judging that solitude and danger had made me mad; and fearing their opinion might be that of others, I refrained from telling my adventure further, and professed to recall nothing that had happened to me between the loss of the 'Lady Vain' and the time when I was picked up again, the space of a year.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This story was immediately matched by a thrice mar-vellous adventure of Brom Bones, who made light of the Galloping Hessian as an arrant jockey.
-- Ichabod, who had no relish for this strange midnight companion, and bethought himself of the adventure of Brom Bones with the Galloping Hessian, now quickened his steed in hopes of leaving him behind.
-- It is true, an old farmer, who had been down to New York on a visit several years after, and from whom this account of the ghostly adventure was received, brought home the intelligence that Ichabod Crane was still alive; that he had left the neighborhood partly through fear of the goblin and Hans Van Ripper, and partly in mortification at having been suddenly dismissed by the heiress; that he had changed his quarters to a distant part of the country; had kept school and studied law at the same time; had been admitted to the bar; turned politician; electioneered; written for the news-papers; and finally had been made a justice of the ten pound court.
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:
-- But there was something of an adventure in my trip, and my spirits rose as I approached Paris.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Akin to the adventure of Perseus and Andromeda indeed, by some supposed to be indirectly derived from it is that famous story of St. George and the Dragon; which dragon I maintain to have been a whale; for in many old chronicles whales and dragons are strangely jumbled together, and often stand for each other.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER XXXIV CONTAINS SOME INTRODUCTORY PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO NOW ARRIVES UPON THE SCENE; AND A NEW ADVENTURE WHICH HAPPENED TO OLIVER It was almost too much happiness to bear.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I am afraid, Mr. Darcy,' observed Miss Bingley in a half whisper, 'that this adventure has rather affected your admi-ration of her fine eyes.'
-- He was anxious to avoid the notice of his cousins, from a conviction that if they saw him depart, they could not fail to conjecture his design, and he was not willing to have the attempt known till its success might be known likewise; for though feeling almost secure, and with reason, for Char- lotte had been tolerably encouraging, he was comparatively diffident since the adventure of Wednesday.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And thus I have given the first part of a life of fortune and adventure - a life of Providence's chequer-work, and of a variety which the world will seldom be able to show the like of; beginning foolishly, but closing much more happily than any part of it ever gave me leave so much as to hope for.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She did not realise this at first, being affected by some of the old distress which was a result of her earlier adventure into this strenuous and exacting quarter.
-- Nothing came of this until after the Brooklyn adventure of Hurstwood's and her success with the speaking part.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He'd call it an adventure that's what he'd call it; and he'd land on that wreck if it was his last act.
-- 'Well, that IS a question, I must say; and just like wom- en!Why, I wanted the ADVENTURE of it; and I'd a waded neck-deep in blood to goodness alive, AUNT POLLY!'
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