Rend

(verb.) tear or be torn violently; 'The curtain ripped from top to bottom'; 'pull the cooked chicken into strips'.

录入:莫伊拉

• The prisoners even sometimes turn upon them and rend them. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• All closely imprisoned forces rend and destroy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let the captive loose. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Leaping and clawing, they mowed down the warriors with their powerful paws, turning for an instant to rend their victims with frightful fangs. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• What madness drives thee, queen, to rend thine hair? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Rend not from me what long affection entwines with my whole nature. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And Legree clenched his fist, and shook it, as if he had something in his hands that he could rend in pieces. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Two choice regiments, recently arrived from Lombardy, led the onset, rending the air with their shouts and confident of an easy victory. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• For some minutes amongst the wood and leafage a rending and heaving went on. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• To look for your sunny welcome that has warmed me into life, and to be received in your frozen manner, is heart-rending. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Before him lay the deep waters of the little lake, behind him certain death; a cruel death beneath tearing claws and rending fangs. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Jane, be still; don't struggle so, like a wild frantic bird that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The Rabbi listened with interest, and testified his sympathy after the fashion of his people, rending his clothes, and saying, Ah, my daughter! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He rends defenseless women and little children in his lair, but how recently has one of you seen him fight with men? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Before calamity she is a tigress; she rends her woes, shivers them in convulsed abhorrence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• She had been all sweetness and kindness, always thankful, always gentle, even when Mrs. Clapp lost her own temper and pressed for the rent. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Barren timber for building is of great value in a populous and well-cultivated country, and the land which produces it affords a considerable rent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He is apt to denominate, however, his whole gain, profit, and thus confounds rent with profit, at least in common language. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The rent of land not only varies with its fertility, whatever be its produce, but with its situation, whatever be its fertility. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Those other parts of the produce of land, however, which afterwards afford rent, do not afford it always. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Rent, even where coals afford one, has generally a smaller share in their price than in that of most other parts of the rude produce of land. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• There was an execution put into our house, for rent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

整理:萨莎