surprise是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 使诧异, 使惊异; 奇袭n. 诧异, 惊异; 奇袭,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not so much in obedience, as in surprise and fear: for on the raising of the hand, he became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self-accusato-ry.
-- To hear Scrooge expending all the earnestness of his nature on such subjects, in a most extraordinary voice be-tween laughing and crying; and to see his heightened and excited face; would have been a surprise to his business friends in the city, indeed.
-- It was a great surprise to Scrooge, while listening to the moaning of the wind, and thinking what a solemn thing it was to move on through the lonely darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were secrets as profound as Death: it was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engaged, to hear a hearty laugh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I forgot them in the surprise of your visit,' explained Monsieur Defarge.
-- He showed no surprise at seeing another figure, but the unsteady fingers of one of his hands strayed to his lips as he looked at it (his lips and his nails were of the same pale leadcolour), and then the hand dropped to his work, and he once more bent over the shoe.
-- My Lord (per-haps with George Washington on his mind) showed some surprise that they were not agreed, but signified his pleasure that they should retire under watch and ward, and retired himself.
-- 'Now, look here!I am going to tell you something that will rather surprise you, and that perhaps will make you think me not quite as shrewd as you usually do think me.
-- He even showed surprise when he saw Mr. Lorry, and was altogether in an absent and preoccupied state.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Most unpleasant of all was the first minute when, on coming, happy and good-humored, from the theater, with a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had not found her in the study either, and saw her at last in her bedroom with the unlucky letter that revealed everything in her hand.
-- Madame Karenina seated herself in the carriage, and Stepan Arkadyevitch saw with surprise that her lips were quivering, and she was with difficulty restraining her tears.
-- And to her surprise Dolly saw that Anna was blushing up to her ears, up to the curly black ringlets on her neck.
-- But when he was all alone in the carriage Alexey Alexandrovitch, to his surprise and delight, felt complete relief both from this pity and from the doubts and agonies of jealousy.
-- "Yes, I wished...I wanted...yes, I wanted to talk to you," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, with surprise aware of an unaccustomed timidity.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- An involuntary motion of surprise nearly escaped him, for the description in the passport was identical with that of the bank robber which he had received from Scotland Yard.
-- Mr. Fogg betrayed no surprise whatever.
-- cried Passepartout, in his surprise permitting this imprudent exclamation to escape him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Don't know as I use it very often, except with the cranks that haven't anything the matter with 'em, but say, it would surprise you how it impresses folks.
-- "Then there's another--this is a minor thing; it doesn't try to drive home general abstract principles, but it'd surprise you the effect it's had on careless housewives, who of course don't mean to neglect the health of their little ones and merely need instruction and a little pep put into them, and when they see a card like this, it makes 'em think: Boil the milk bottles or by gum You better buy your ticket to Kingdom Come.
-- Great surprise to me.
-- First, let's rush home and shake up a few cocktails and bring 'em down to surprise him," was Tredgold's inspiration.
-- A week later, flushed, slim, gallant, joyous, she said to him after dinner, "I've got a surprise for you!"
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:
-- What the student expressed most surprise and amusement about was the fact that Lizaveta was continu-ally with child.
-- To his own surprise he, too, grew suddenly angry and found a cer-tain pleasure in it.
-- Everyone turned towards her with surprise and curiosity.
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