foreign是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 外国的, (to) 无关的; 外来的; 异质的,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You see that they are a bit worn, but they'll last a couple of months, for it's foreign work and foreign leather; the secretary of the English Embassy sold them last week he had only worn them six days, but he was very short of cash.
-- 'I am going to foreign parts, brother.'
-- 'To foreign parts?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was so conscious of having passed throughscenes of which they could have no knowledge, and of havingacquired experiences foreign to my age, appearance, and conditionas one of them, that I half believed it was an imposture to comethere as an ordinary little school-boy.
-- When the wine came, too, I thought it flat; and it 270certainly had more English crumbs in it, than were to be expectedin a foreign wine in anything like a pure state; but I was bashfulenough to drink it, and say nothing.
-- The leg of mutton came up very red within, and verypale without: besides having a foreign substance of a gritty naturesprinkled over it, as if it had had a fall into the ashes of thatremarkable kitchen fire-place.
-- So she took her pigs,' said my aunt, 'to a foreign market;and a very bad market it turned out to be.
-- He hadfound out, at Yarmouth, some foreign dealers who knew thatcountry, and they had drawn him a rude map on paper, which hecould very well understand.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is foreign to a mystified condition of mind to realize of the mystifier that the processes of approving a course suggested by circumstance, and of striking out a course from inner impulse, would look the same in the result.
-- Boldwood looked at her not slily, critically, or understandingly, but blankly at gaze, in the way a reaper looks up at a passing train as something foreign to his element, and but dimly understood.
-- His outlook upon time was as a transient flash of the eye now and then: that projection of consciousness into days gone by and to come, which makes the past a synonym for the pathetic and the future a word for circumspection, was foreign to Troy.
-- It was almost foreign to her intrinsic nature.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not only so, he knew all about ships, the sea, France, foreign countries, men, business, law, great houses and prisons, --there was nothing that he did not know.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On perceiving me, the stranger addressed me in English, although with a foreign accent.
-- He is desirous to be a true Swiss and to enter into foreign service, but we cannot part with him, at least until his elder brother return to us.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were strange faces on the streets of Atlantanow, and citizens who a year ago would have pricked op their ears at the sound of even a Western accent paid no heedto the foreign tongues of Europeans who had run the blockade to build machines and turn out Confederate munitions.
-- His hair was jet black, and his black mustache was small and closely clipped, almost foreign looking compared withthe dashing, swooping mustaches of the cavalrymen near by.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ha, ha, ha!You shall read 'em to me, dear boy!And if they're in foreign languages wot I don't understand, I shall be just as proud as if I did."
-- Pretending to read a smeary newspaper long out of date, which had nothing half so legible in its local news, as the foreign matter of coffee, pickles, fish sauces, gravy, melted butter, and wine with which it was sprinkled all over, as if it had taken the measles in a highly irregular form, I sat at my table while he stood before the fire.
-- Wait till things slacken, before you try the open, even for foreign air."
-- After a while and when it might be prudent, if you should want to slip Tom, Jack, or Richard on board a foreign packet-boat, there he is--ready."
-- Any foreign steamer that fell in our way and would take us up would do.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I think,' answered the bean, 'that as we have so fortu-nately escaped death, we should keep together like good companions, and lest a new mischance should overtake us 31here, we should go away together, and repair to a foreign country.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I stayed but two months with my wife and family, for my insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries, would suf-fer me to continue no longer.
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