修辞作业

1. The sunshine of happiness is made up of very little beams. 2. A fair face may hide a foul heart.

3. The pen is to a writer what the gun is to a fighter. 4. Oh, the spring should vanish with the rose! 5. That Youth’s sweet-scented manuscript should close! 6. I have nourished a viper in my bosom! 7. He was a man of no mean wealth.

8. It (New York) has the poorest millionaires, the littlest great men, the haughtiest gaggers' the plainest beauties, the lowest skyscrapers, the dolefulness pleasure of any town I ever saw.

9. Women were running out to the line of march, crying and laughing and kissing the men goodbye.

10. It took heaven to make the best rum on earth – Virgin Island Cruzan Rum (朗姆酒).

11. Why are lawyers all uneasy sleepers? Because they lie first on one side, and then on the other, and remain wide wake all the time. 12. She has expensive tastes in clothes.

13. We find ourseleves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling raucous discord on earth.

14. An Englishman does everything on principle; he fights you on patriotic principles; he robes you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. 15. Do you swear that you will pull the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth?

16. Many happy hours she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare ---- something worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim. 17. And, it being low water, he went out with the tide.

18. A pilot should know there must be 18 hours between bottle and throttle.

19. How soon hath Time，the subtle thief of youth，stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year!

20. As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear.