英文小说佳句欣赏

bulaohu

原帖由 Holly2010 于 2011-4-15 09:16 发表

可能我的英语还不够好，我是觉得，比如这一句The rumble of the apples tumbling into the cellar bins. 为什么不是The rumble of the apples were tumbling into the cellar bins.

这个肯定不是语法错误。这个属于只有单主语的句子，具体的名堂我记不得了，但是非常常见，常用于细致地描述事物或者心情的时候，而且一般不是单列的，而是有多个类似的结构形成排比。这种不能用主谓宾的格式来套用。你加一个'were'是试图把它变成一个独立的单句，而实际上是不需要的。

JuJu

这个应该算incomplete sentence, 如果是小学生写出来就算是语法错误,但在散文里面是经常用的手法,更有韵味, 大师写出来肯定不是语法错误的.

bulaohu

原帖由 JuJu 于 2011-4-15 11:27 发表
这个应该算incomplete sentence, 如果是小学生写出来就算是语法错误,但在散文里面是经常用的手法,更有韵味, 大师写出来肯定不是语法错误的.

小学生写出来这样的句子的话是会很雷人的，要么是语法错误，要么是碰到百年一个的天才了

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17.  As the door of the vehicle was roughly closed, a comb fell from Kate's hair, close at her uncle's feet; and as he picked it up and returned it to her hand, the light from a neighbouring lamp shone upon her face. The lock of her hair that had escaped and curled loosely over her brow, the traces of tears yet scarcely dry, the flushed cheek, the look of sorrow, all fired some dormant train of recollection in the old man's breast; and the face of his dead brother seemed present before him, with the very look it wore on some occasion of boyish grief, of which every minute circumstance flashed upon his mind, with the distinctness of a scene of yesterday.   Charles Dickens  [Nicholas Nickleby]

-- Nicolas很冷酷的叔叔，感觉良心被‘谴责’的一段。 Kate (Nicolas的妹妹）

weiwei_au

学习了

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18.  He scrambled to his feet, collapsed on to his knees before her, threw this arms around her waist and cried inconsolably into her stomach.    by Katie Agnew [ Wives v. Girlfriends]

-- scrambled, collapsed, threw and cried.... feet, knees, waist, and stomach..... 对的很整齐， 写他一怒之下揍了他的新婚妻子之后，后悔祈求原谅。。

astina

原帖由 bulaohu 于 2011-4-15 10:19 发表


这个肯定不是语法错误。这个属于只有单主语的句子，具体的名堂我记不得了，但是非常常见，常用于细致地描述事物或者心情的时候，而且一般不是单列的，而是有多个类似的结构形成排比。这种不能用主谓宾的格式来套用。你加一个'were'是试图把它变成一个独立的单句，而实际上是不需要的。

具体名堂叫独立主格从句

bulaohu

原帖由 astina 于 2011-4-17 11:46 发表

具体名堂叫独立主格从句

太佩服了，你连这个都知道啊

astina

高中里老师教的，我很纠结了一阵，总觉得这个语法不make sense

好多年后才释然，英语的语法，很多就是这么多年的习惯使然而已

bffbffbff

原帖由 astina 于 2011-4-17 11:46 发表

具体名堂叫独立主格从句

那个长的确实像独立主格从句，不过是个句号分开得。

astina

wk,没仔细看到是句号。如果句号就是语法错误啊，没名堂了

bffbffbff

原帖由 astina 于 2011-4-17 11:58 发表
wk,没仔细看到是句号。如果句号就是语法错误啊，没名堂了

这些年来，我对这种自己解释不出来的语法现象容忍度越来越高，就如同老虎所讲，人家母语的人就是这么说的，就是这么不讲理 。

不过这个句子而言我还是倾向于你说的那神马非主句现象，只不过人家境界太高我已经没法把句子还原了

astina

如果这样的句子写成丽华老师体，我就又能理解了

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原帖由 bffbffbff 于 2011-4-17 12:04 发表


这些年来，我对这种自己解释不出来的语法现象容忍度越来越高，就如同老虎所讲，人家母语的人就是这么说的，就是这么不讲理 。

不过这个句子而言我还是倾向于你说的那神马非主句现象，只不过人家境界太高我已经没法把句子还原了

如果加了 were， 整个‘乐感’就变了，作者是用这些短句来控制‘呼吸’速度。。

bffbffbff

丽华老师体?

astina

梨花体，一个人来到田纳西

bffbffbff

原帖由 洋八路 于 2011-4-17 12:07 发表


如果加了 were， 整个‘乐感’就变了，作者是用这些短句来控制‘呼吸’速度。。

恩 有道理。我现在功力不够，还得随着时间流逝满满揣摩下

JuJu

原帖由 astina 于 2011-4-17 11:46 发表

具体名堂叫独立主格从句

牛! 我仿佛上辈子听过的.

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19. Today was the first day of the rest of his life.  By Katie Agnew  [ Wives V Girlfriends]


-----  change the time and viewpoint to be: Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
if only the first means much to you, and thus kill the day as hard as you can....

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经常在早间的广播里听到一首歌这样唱“Today is the first day of the rest of your life”……好励志啊。 Have a great day, everyone:)

原帖由 洋八路 于 2011-4-18 09:48 发表
19. Today was the first day of the rest of his life.  By Katie Agnew  [ Wives V Girlfriends]


-----  change the time and viewpoint to be: Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
if only the ...

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20. Mr.Gould takes being white to the extreme, he is so pale you can see all his thoughts and feelings erupting in little blushes and flushes under his skin.   by ?? [????]

--  wild imagination...

JuJu

Tonight, this strange interior gesture of friendship—the lending of a hand from me to myself when nobody else is around to offer solace—reminds me of something that happened to me once in New York City. I walked into an office building one afternoon in a hurry, dashed into the waiting elevator. As I rushed in, I caught an unexpected glance of myself in a security mirror’s reflection. In that moment, my brain did an odd thing—it fired off this split-second message: “Hey! You know her! That’s a friend of yours!” And I actually ran forward toward my own reflection with a smile, ready to welcome that girl whose name I had lost but whose face was so familiar. In a flash instant of course, I realized my mistake and laughed in embarrassment at my almost doglike confusion over how a mirror works. But for some reason that incident comes to mind again tonight during my sadness in Rome, and I find myself writing this comforting reminder at the bottom of the page.

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a FRIEND…

<<EAT PRAY LOVE>>

这段的前面是说Gilbert 在一个孤独和失落的晚上, 突然听到自己内心的声音对她自己说, There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love....
有时候分享不容易, 要看上下文可能才会感觉到好.

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21.  Suddenly the duck awoke and withdrew its bill from beneath its wing. It raised its neck and turned its head from side to side, listening. Then it began to bob its head and put both feet on the ground. It moved a little to one side, jerking its head and its tail.    By Liam O'Flaherty  [All things come of age]

-- a duck, so explicitly depicted... as if you are watching to the moment..

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22. Julie stood up on shaky legs. A shadow crossed her face and suddenly she looked more like a witch than an angel. She thrust the letter hard into Grace's chest and screamed.    by Katie Angew [Wives V Girlfriends]

-- simple words, yet putting an eruptive behavior into full play...

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23. The baby rabbit was sitting in the sun just by the entrance to his burrow. He was half asleep. His big ears sloped along his back and his sides heaved gently with his breathing. Now and again a slight breeze came up from the stream, raised the brown fur on his side and made silver furrows in it. When the breeze touched him, he sniffed the air and wanted his mother to come and feed him.  By Liam O'Flaherty  [All things come of age]

-- a baby rabbit..

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24. He knew in his cups three distinct stages of intoxication, -- the dignified  -- the quarrelsome -- the amorous. When professionally engaged he never got beyond the dignified; in private circles he went through all the three, passing from one to another with a rapidity of transition often rather perplexing to those who had not the honour of his acquaintance.    by Charlie Dickens   [Nicholas Nickleby]

-- this is in contrast to my three stages of drinking: the dignified --> the chatterbox --> the fantasized,  but the rapid transition meets the very term......  how about you -- shed your comment here, don't make me dry alone over the line..

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25.  The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. by Mihail Baryshnikov

-- valid point, but the pleasure is by all means mingled with sweat and tears.

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26. The little crow had no feathers on his body. Things like soft fluffy bristles grew all over him. He had fallen in a clump of long grass by the roadside and he was quite unhurt. But he was very terrified. With his mouth open and his bare wings stretched out, he worked his neck from side to side as if he was trying to unscrew it from his body.    By Liam O'Flaherty  [A Crow Fight]

-- a baby crow.

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27. Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.    -- Charlies Dickens [Nicholas Nickleby]

--  about dreams  -- too good to be true? if only the nightmares rest during the night ..

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28. The beauty of earth is but a breath, and man is but a shadow.  by Charlies Dickens [Nicholas Nickleby]

-- a dim view of a human life....