advance是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 前进, 预付vi. 前进, 进展vt. 促进, 推进,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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At Cape Momax the straits widened, and she was able to get round Narborough Isles and advance in a more southerly direction, till at length the rock of Cape Pilares, the extreme point of Desolation Island, came in sight, thirty-six hours after entering the straits.
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:
-- And the chair began to advance slowly, joltingly down the beautiful broad riding washed over with blue encroach-ing hyacinths.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I do not advance it as a merit to be sensitive and brave, but it is my character.
-- John Baptist, staring at him with eyes opened to their utmost width, made a number of those national, backhanded shakes of the right forefinger in the air, as if he were resolved on negativing beforehand everything that the other could possibly advance during the whole term of his life.
-- He had crossed the heath and was leaving it behind when he gained upon a figure which had been in advance of him for some time, and which, as he gained upon it, he thought he knew.
-- That from the father mentioned that most unexpectedly finding himself in the novel position of having been disappointed of a remittance from the City on which he had confidently counted, he took up his pen, being restrained by the unhappy circumstance of his incarceration during three-and-twenty years (doubly underlined), from coming himself, as he would otherwise certainly have done took up his pen to entreat Mr Clennam to advance him the sum of Three Pounds Ten Shillings upon his I.O.U., which he begged to enclose.
-- The advance from a personal acquaintance with the elder Mr Chivery to an introduction to his amiable wife and disconsolate son, may have been easy; but easy or not, Mr Pancks soon made it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If a stranger were introduced into any miscellaneous metropolitan society, it would but slightly advance the general opinion of his merits, were he presented to the company as a harpooneer, say; and if in emulation of the naval officers he should append the initials S.W.F.
-- In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but substantiated facts.
-- By some fishermen his approach is regarded as premonitory of the advance of the great sperm whale.
-- Though, in these cases, the direction taken by any one whale be straight as a surveyor's parallel, and though the line of advance be strictly confined to its own unavoidable, straight wake, yet the arbitrary vein in which at these times he is said to swim, generally embraces some few miles in width (more or less, as the vein is presumed to expand or contract); but never exceeds the visual sweep from the whale-ship's mast-heads, when circumspectly gliding along this magic zone.
-- Tashtego reporting that the whales had gone down heading to leeward, we confidently looked to see them again directly in advance of our bows.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Oliver walked a few paces after them; and, not knowing whether to advance or retire, stood looking on in silent amazement.
-- Scared by the sudden breaking of the dead stillness of the place, and by a loud cry which followed it, Oliver let his lantern fall, and knew not whether to advance or fly.
-- Sikes, again looking round, could discern that the men who had given chase were already climbing the gate of the field in which he stood; and that a couple of dogs were some paces in advance of them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least.
-- She was very wrong in singling me out as she did; I can safely say that every advance to intimacy began on her side.
-- It soon led to another; and Mrs. Bennet found, with amazement and horror, that her husband would not advance a guinea to buy clothes for his daughter.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I scarce knew in what manner to receive them, but found to draw ourselves in a close line was the only way; so we formed in a moment; but that we might not have too much interval, I ordered that only ev-ery other man should fire, and that the others, who had not fired, should stand ready to give them a second volley im-mediately, if they continued to advance upon us; and then that those that had fired at first should not pretend to load their fusees again, but stand ready, every one with a pistol, for we were all armed with a fusee and a pair of pistols each man; so we were, by this method, able to fire six volleys, half of us at a time; however, at present we had no neces-sity; for upon firing the first volley, the enemy made a full stop, being terrified as well with the noise as with the fire.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They all looked exceedingly foolish; and Edward seemed to have as great an inclination to walk out of the room again, as to advance farther into it.
-- What I am now doing indeed, seems nothing at all, since it can advance him so little towards what must be his principal, his only object of happiness.
-- Edward had two thousand pounds, and Elinor one, which, with Delaford living, was all that they could call their own; for it was impossible that Mrs. Dashwood should advance anything; and they were neither of them quite enough in love to think that three hundred and fifty pounds a-year would supply them with the comforts of life.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, because Carrie was pretty, the gentlemen who made up the advance illustrations of shows about to appear for the Sunday papers selected Carrie's photo along with others to illustrate the announcement.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And he had got in ten dollars' worth of advertisements for the paper, which he said he would put in for four dollars if they would pay in advance so they done it.
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