strip是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 剥去, 除去; 剥夺财产; n. 狭长一片,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And if you were shown a flock of birds, unable to fly, and were set upon them to strip them of their feathers for your own advantage, you would set upon the birds of the finest feathers; would you not?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yashvin says, 'He wants to strip me of my shirt, and I him of his.'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As he sat beside her he piped, "Say, that's a dandy new strip of matting you've put down."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He folded this strip in two, took off his wide, strong summer overcoat of some stout cotton material (his only outer garment) and began sewing the two ends of the rag on the inside, under the left armhole.
-- The iron strip was added to give weight, so that the woman might not guess the first minute that the 'thing' was made of wood.
-- He ex-plained every incident of the murder, the secret of the pledge (the piece of wood with a strip of metal) which was found in the murdered woman's hand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But theywere both as grave and steady as the sea itself: then lying beneath adark sky, waveless- yet with a heavy roll upon it, as if it breathedin its rest- and touched, on the horizon, with a strip of silvery lightfrom the unseen sun.
-- As I looked after his figure, crossing the waste in themoonlight, I saw him turn his face towards a strip of silvery lightupon the sea, and pass on, looking at it, until he was a shadow inthe distance.
-- The girls had gone home, when my name burst into bloom onTraddles's door; and the sharp boy looked, all day, as if he hadnever heard of Sophy, shut up in a back-room, glancing down fromher work into a sooty little strip of garden with a pump in it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The other portion remained erect, and revealed the bared surface as a strip of white down the front.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I knew the limekiln as well as I knew the old Battery, but they were miles apart; so that, if a light had been burning at each point that night, there would have been a long strip of the blank horizon between the two bright specks.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I said, 'His majesty should be satisfied; for I was ready to strip myself, and turn up my pockets before him.'
-- They would often strip me naked from top to toe, and lay me 144 Gulliver's Travelsat full length in their bosoms; wherewith I was much dis-gusted because, to say the truth, a very offensive smell came from their skins; which I do not mention, or intend, to the disadvantage of those excellent ladies, for whom I have all manner of respect; but I conceive that my sense was more acute in proportion to my littleness, and that those illustri-ous persons were no more disagreeable to their lovers, or to each other, than people of the same quality are with us in England.
-- That which gave me most uneasiness among these maids of honour (when my nurse carried me to visit then) was, to see them use me without any manner of ceremony, like a creature who had no sort of consequence: for they would strip themselves to the skin, and put on their smocks in my presence, while I was placed on their toilet, directly before their naked bodies, which I am sure to me was very far from being a tempting sight, or from giving me any other emo-tions than those of horror and disgust: their skins appeared 145so coarse and uneven, so variously coloured, when I saw them near, with a mole here and there as broad as a trencher, and hairs hanging from it thicker than packthreads, to say nothing farther concerning the rest of their persons.
-- The captain had often entreated me to strip myself of my savage dress, and offered to lend me the best suit of clothes he had.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All the journey, immovable in the air though never left behind; plain to the dark eyes of her mind, as the electric wires which ruled a colossal strip of music-paper out of the evening sky, were plain to the dark eyes of her body; Mrs. Sparsit saw her staircase, with the figure coming down.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Here and there was a strip of discolored turf, like an old worn-out bit of woolen carpet; and now and then a bit of kitchen garden, in which grew potatoes, cabbage, and lettuce, almost diminutive enough to suggest the idea of Lilliput.
-- Here the horses were allowed to take some rest and refreshment, then following a narrow strip of shore between high rocks and the sea, they took us without further halt to the Aoalkirkja of Brantar, and after another mile to Saurboer Annexia, a chapel of ease, situated on the southern bank of the Hvalfjord.
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:
-- Therefore let's live the mental life, and glory in our spite, and strip the rotten old show.
-- 'But I wouldn't preach to the men: only strip 'em an' say: Look at yourselves!That's workin' for money! Hark at yourselves!That's working for money.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To come out of the twilight of pillars and arches dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging was to plunge into a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade.
-- The old man looked as if the remote high gallery windows, with their little strip of sky, might have been the point of his better fortunes, from which he had descended, until he had gradually sunk down below there to the bottom.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A pleasant green field, with three wide-spreading oaks in the middle and a smooth strip of turf for croquet.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The counterpane was of patchwork, full of odd little parti-coloured squares and triangles; and this arm of his tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure, no two parts of which were of one precise shade owing I suppose to his keeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun and shade, his shirt sleeves irregularly rolled up at various times this same arm of his, I say, looked for all the world like a strip of that same patchwork quilt.
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