mighty是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 强大的; 巨大的,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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous ge-nius and mental activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans of their subsequent degenerating of the decline of that mighty empire, of chiv-alry, Christianity, and kings.
-- I had a very confused knowledge of kingdoms, wide extents of country, mighty rivers, and boundless seas.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'm mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it seceded or it would haveruined the Christmas parties, too.
-- When we got home, Ma was out in the stable with a sackful of sugarsmoothing him down and doing it mighty well, too.
-- "It looked to me like she was mighty glad to see us when we came."
-- Brentliked India but he thought her mighty plain and tame, and he simply could not fall in love with her himself to keepStuart company.
-- "Yes, but she's mighty liable to talk embarrassing in front of Father and the girls when we get home tonight," saidStuart gloomily.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Hall was a queer place, I thought, with higher pews in it than a church,--and with people hanging over the pews looking on,--and with mighty Justices (one with a powdered head) leaning back in chairs, with folded arms, or taking snuff, or going to sleep, or writing, or reading the newspapers,--and with some shining black portraits on the walls, which my unartistic eye regarded as a composition of hardbake and sticking-plaster.
-- "I'd be a match for all noodles and all rogues," returned my sister, beginning to work herself into a mighty rage.
-- I never shall forget the radiant face with which he came home one afternoon, and told me, as a mighty piece of news, of his having fallen in with one Clarriker (the young merchant's name), and of Clarriker's having shown an extraordinary inclination towards him, and of his belief that the opening had come at last.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He soon came to the seashore; and the water was quite black and muddy, and a mighty whirlwind blew over the waves and rolled them about, but he went as near as he could to the water's brink, and said: 'O man of the sea!
-- He took the little tailor to a mighty oak tree which 100 Grimms' Fairy Taleslay there felled on the ground, and said: 'If you are strong enough, help me to carry the tree out of the forest.'
-- He must be a mighty lord.'
-- Not long after this there was a great bustle in the coun-try; for the king's daughter had been carried off by a mighty dragon, and the king mourned over his loss day and night, and made it known that whoever brought her back to him should have her for a wife.
-- The king gathered together his people, and did not know whether or not he could offer any opposition to the ene-my, who was superior in strength and had a mighty army.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the ex-tremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princ-es of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: his most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to perform:- '1st, The man-mountain shall not depart from our do-minions, without our license under our great seal.
-- For,' said he, 'as flourishing a condition as we may appear to be in to- foreigners, we labour under two mighty evils: a violent faction at home, and the danger of an invasion, by a most potent enemy, from abroad.
-- Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past.
-- I told his majesty, 'that I was come according to my promise, and with the license of the emperor my master, to have the honour of seeing so mighty a monarch, and to offer him any service in my power, con-sistent with my duty to my own prince;' not mentioning a 86 Gulliver's Travelsword of my disgrace, because I had hitherto no regular in-formation of it, and might suppose myself wholly ignorant of any such design; neither could I reasonably conceive that the emperor would discover the secret, while I was out of his power; wherein, however, it soon appeared I was deceived.
-- I shall not trouble the reader with the difficulties I was under, by the help of certain paddles, which cost me ten days making, to get my boat to the royal port of Blefuscu, where a mighty concourse of people appeared upon my ar-rival, full of wonder at the sight of so prodigious a vessel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A mighty man at cutting and drying, he was; a government officer; in his way (and in most other people's too), a professed pugilist; always in training, always with a system to force down the general throat like a bolus, always to be heard of at the bar of his little Public-office, ready to fight all England.
-- They all assumed to be mighty rakish and knowing, they were not very tidy in their private dresses, they were not at all orderly in their domestic arrangements, and the combined literature of the whole company would have produced but a poor letter on any subject.
-- However, the Coketowners were so patriotic after all, that they never had pitched their property into the Atlantic yet, but, on the contrary, had been kind enough to take mighty good care of it.
-- 'If you hadn't been so mighty particular about the sum, I should have begun to tell you before.
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