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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Let the women each of them light a great fire in her house, and let watch be safely kept lest the town be entered by surprise while the host is outside.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She shivered a little as she closed the door behind her, and her face was eloquent of her surprise and perplexity.
-- Without any great surprise he found it had the stickiness and colour of drying blood.
-- 'Looky there, Ted,' quoth the younger of the detectives, with the sharpness of surprise in his voice, and pointed straight to my feet.
-- There was an eddy of surprise and interrogation.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I turned away from the thickets, keeping to the more open ground, and endeavouring by sudden turns now and then to surprise something in the act of creeping upon me.
-- I could have yelled with surprise and pain.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He whistled with surprise when he saw Mowgli being dragged up to a treetop and heard him give the Kite call for 'We be of one blood, thou and I.'
-- Buldeo was speechless with surprise for a moment, and the head-man stared.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After the first surprise of the intelligence had a little abated, a rumor was spread through the entrenched camp, which stretched along the margin of the Hudson, forming a chain of outworks to the body of the fort itself, that a chosen detachment of fifteen hundred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extrem-ity of the portage.
-- Though this sudden and startling movement of the Indian produced no sound from the other, in the surprise her veil also was allowed to open its folds, and betrayed an indescribable look of pity, admiration, and horror, as her dark eye followed the easy motions of the sav-age.
-- No exclamation of surprise escaped the father, nor was any question asked, or reply given, for sev-eral minutes; each appearing to await the moment when he might speak, without betraying womanish curiosity or childish impatience.
-- Along this track the travelers, who had produced a surprise so un- usual in the depths of the forest, advanced slowly toward the hunter, who was in front of his associates, in readiness to receive them.
-- When his son pointed out to the experienced warrior the situa-tion of their dangerous enemy, the usual exclamatory 'hugh' burst from his lips; after which, no further expression of surprise or alarm was suffered to escape him.
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:
-- Then he gave a cry of delighted surprise and drew me in.
-- "You surprise me."
-- Strickland was taken by surprise and he staggered, but he was very strong, even after his illness, and in a moment, he did not exactly know how, Stroeve found himself on the floor.
-- It would not surprise you if, as you came near seeking for an opening in the reef, it vanished suddenly from your view, and nothing met your gaze but the blue loneliness of the Pacific.
-- Imagine my surprise when he said it was a masterpiece, and offered me thirty thousand francs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, no wild beast showed itself, and it was probable that these animals frequented rather the thick forests in the south; but the settlers had the disagreeable surprise of seeing Top stop before a snake of great size, measuring from fourteen to fifteen feet in length.
-- Top, the first moment of surprise over, began a reptile chase with such eagerness, that they feared for his safety.
-- Herbert, wishing to surprise Pencroft, said nothing about the "superb specimen of a chelonian" which they had turned over on the sand; but, two hours later, he and Neb returned with the cart to the place where they had left it.
-- At half-past ten, to the great surprise of Cyrus Harding, Herbert, who was a little in front, suddenly stopped and exclaimed, "The sea!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He said this with such evident surprise that I was perplexed what answer to make, and the more so because coupled with something feeble and wandering in his manner, there were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at first inclined to suppose, in a state of dotage or imbecility.
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