sudden是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 出乎意料的, 突然的,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《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the church came to itself,--for he was so sudden and strong that he made it go head over heels before me, and I saw the steeple under my feet,--when the church came to itself, I say, I was seated on a high tombstone, trembling while he ate the bread ravenously.
-- The man took strong sharp sudden bites, just like the dog.
-- cried my sister, casting off her bonnet in sudden desperation, "here I stand talking to mere Mooncalfs, with Uncle Pumblechook waiting, and the mare catching cold at the door, and the boy grimed with crock and dirt from the hair of his head to the sole of his foot!"
-- This change had a great influence in bringing Camilla's chemistry to a sudden end.
-- He had struck root in Joe's establishment, by reason of my sister's sudden fancy for him, or I should have tried to get him dismissed.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So he set out once more on his journey, sighing, and in great despair, when on a sudden his friend the fox met him, and said, 'You see now what has happened on account of your not listening to my counsel.
-- The sun was setting fast, and already half of its circle had sunk behind the hill: Jorindel on a sudden looked behind him, and saw through the bushes that they had, without knowing it, sat down close under the old walls of the castle.
-- On a sudden Jorindel found himself free.
-- The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing; and one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all on a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water: and in drawing it up he pulled out a great fish.
-- She sat down in one corner of the room, and began to be-wail her hard fate; when on a sudden the door opened, and a droll-looking little man hobbled in, and said, 'Good mor-row to you, my good lass; what are you weeping for?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves, and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north.
-- I walked awhile among the rocks: the sky was perfectly clear, and the sun so hot, that I was forced to turn my face from it: when all on a sudden it became obscure, as I thought, in a manner very different from what happens by the in-terposition of a cloud.
-- For, if the town intended to be destroyed should have in it any tall rocks, as it generally falls out in the larger cities, a situation probably chosen at first with a view to prevent 214 Gulliver's Travelssuch a catastrophe; or if it abound in high spires, or pil-lars of stone, a sudden fall might endanger the bottom or under surface of the island, which, although it consist, as I have said, of one entire adamant, two hundred yards thick, might happen to crack by too great a shock, or burst by ap-proaching too near the fires from the houses below, as the backs, both of iron and stone, will often do in our chimneys.
-- The pupils, at his com-mand, took each of them hold of an iron handle, whereof there were forty fixed round the edges of the frame; and giv- 229ing them a sudden turn, the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump.
-- I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of cau-sation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life, until from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me a light so brilliant and wondrous, 51yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immen-sity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius who had directed their in-quiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.
-- How altered every thing might be during that time!One sudden and desolating change had taken place; but a thousand little circumstances might have by degrees worked other alterations, which, although they were done more tranquilly, might not be the less decisive.
-- In one spot you view rug-ged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.
-- I desired that I might pass my life on that barren rock, wearily, it is true, but uninterrupted by any sudden shock of misery.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pink peach blossoms and dogwooddappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills.
-- Scarlett had a sudden treacherous desire to cry out, "But you've been happy, and you and Mother aren't alike,"but she repressed it, fearing that he would box her ears for her impertinence.
-- And here in this new country, safe from the twin perils of the land he had left taxation that ate up crops and barnsand the ever-present threat of sudden confiscation he intended to have them.
-- If Ellen had ever regretted her sudden decision to marry him, no one ever knew it, certainly not Gerald, whoalmost burst with pride whenever he looked at her.
-- Prodded by her mother, Prissy bobbed a sudden curtsy and grinned at Scarlett, who could not help grinning back.
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