strange是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 奇怪的, 奇异的; 陌生的, 生疏的; 外地的,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The head of the procession soon appeared beneath the trees, a hundred paces away; and the strange figures who performed the religious ceremony were easily distinguished through the branches.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her confidence in him, the affection of this uprooted old woman bewildered in a strange land, overcame him; he lost all his whisky- colored feeling that he was a nimble fellow, and in a melancholy way, with all the weight of life again upon him, he sighed that no, nothing had happened, but he'd forgotten to tell Madeline something--so shor--so sorry call so late--could he speak Mad just minute-- Then Madeline was bubbling, "Why, Marty dear, what is it?
-- To Martin's duties was added the entertainment of Leora in the strange city of Nautilus.
-- He stamped his foot, and in fright they broke out in their strange sound of fear, like the cooing of doves.
-- It is strange that excellent bacteriologists and chemists should scramble eggs so waterily, should make such bitter coffee and be so casual about dirty spoons.
-- In Bombay a new dock-guard, unaware of things, spoke boisterously over his family rice of a strange new custom of the rats.
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:
-- But there was something very strange in him; there was a light in his eyes as though of intense feeling perhaps there were even thought and intel-ligence, but at the same time there was a gleam of something like madness.
-- She seemed to Raskolnikov about thirty years old and was certainly a strange wife for Marmeladov芒聙娄.
-- But there was at first sight something so strange about the woman in front of him, that gradually his attention was riveted upon her, at first reluctantly and, as it were, resent-fully, and then more and more intently.
-- He felt a sudden desire to find out what it was that was so strange about the woman.
-- It was a strange and shocking sight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There is something strange to me, even now, in the reflection thathe never saw me; and something stranger yet in the shadowyremembrance that I have of my first childish associations with hiswhite gravestone in the churchyard, and of the indefinablecompassion I used to feel for it lying out alone there in the darknight, when our little parlour was warm and bright with fire andcandle, and the doors of our house were- almost cruelly, it seemedto me sometimes- bolted and locked against it.
-- My mother was sitting by the fire, but poorly in health, and verylow in spirits, looking at it through her tears, and despondingheavily about herself and the fatherless little stranger, who wasalready welcomed by some grosses of prophetic pins in a drawerupstairs, to a world not at all excited on the subject of his arrival;my mother, I say, was sitting by the fire, that bright, windy Marchafternoon, very timid and sad, and very doubtful of ever comingalive out of the trial that was before her, when, lifting her eyes asshe dried them, to the window opposite, she saw a strange ladycoming up the garden.
-- The setting sun was glowing on the strange lady, overthe garden fence, and she came walking up to the door with a fellrigidity of figure and composure of countenance that could havebelonged to nobody else.
-- Having issued this mandate with as muchpotentiality as if she had been a recognised authority in the houseever since it had been a house, and having looked out to confrontthe amazed Peggotty coming along the passage with a candle at thesound of a strange voice, Miss Betsey shut the door again, and satdown as before; with her feet on the fender, the skirt of her dresstucked up, and her hands folded on one knee.
-- When we got into the street (which was strange enough to me), andsmelt the fish, and pitch, and oakum, and tar, and saw the sailorswalking about, and the carts jingling up and down over the stones, 35I felt that I had done so busy a place an injustice; and said as muchto Peggotty, who heard my expressions of delight with greatcomplacency, and told me it was well known (I suppose to thosewho had the good fortune to be born Bloaters) that Yarmouth was,upon the whole, the finest place in the universe.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a strange rumour in Highbury of all the little Perrys being seen with a slice of Mrs. Weston's wedding-cake in their hands: but Mr. Woodhouse would never believe it.
-- 'Well,' said she to herself, 'this is most strange! After I had got him off so well, to chuse to go into company, and leave Harriet ill behind! Most strange indeed! But there is, I believe, in many men, especially single men, such an inclination such a passion for dining out a dinner en-gagement is so high in the class of their pleasures, their employments, their dignities, almost their duties, that any thing gives way to it and this must be the case with Mr. Elton; a most valuable, amiable, pleasing young man un-doubtedly, and very much in love with Harriet; but still, he cannot refuse an invitation, he must dine out wherever he is asked.
-- What a strange thing love is!he can see ready wit in Harriet, but will not dine alone for her.'
-- The difficulty was great of driving his strange insensibility towards Harriet, from her mind, while he not only sat at her elbow, but was continu-ally obtruding his happy countenance on her notice, and solicitously addressing her upon every occasion.
-- There she was welcomed, with the utmost delight, by her father, who had been trembling for the dangers of a soli-tary drive from Vicarage Lane turning a corner which he could never bear to think of and in strange hands a mere common coachman no James; and there it seemed as if her return only were wanted to make every thing go well: for Mr. John Knightley, ashamed of his ill-humour, was now all kindness and attention; and so particularly solicitous for the comfort of her father, as to seem if not quite ready to join him in a basin of gruel perfectly sensible of its be-ing exceedingly wholesome; and the day was concluding in peace and comfort to all their little party, except herself. But her mind had never been in such perturbation; and it needed a very strong effort to appear attentive and cheer-ful till the usual hour of separating allowed her the relief of quiet reflection.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Recollection of the strange antics she had indulged in when passing through the trees was succeeded in the girl by a nettled palpitation, and that by a hot face.
-- On opening his eyes he found that evening had sunk to dusk in a strange manner of unexpectedness.
-- Gabriel had watched the blue wood-smoke curling from the chimney with strange meditation.
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