funeral是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 丧葬, 葬礼,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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Joseph then placed the flowers as enjoined, and the evergreens around the flowers, till it was difficult to divine what the waggon contained; he smacked his whip, and the rather pleasing funeral car crept down the hill, and along the road to Weatherbury.
-- I am afraid it is too late now for the funeral to be performed with proper decency.
-- We'll put off the funeral till to-morrow morning.
-- "And I will arrange that the funeral shall take place early to-morrow.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This also was my doing!And my father's woe, and the desolation of that late so smiling home all was the work of my thrice-ac-cursed hands!Ye weep, unhappy ones, but these are not your last tears!Again shall you raise the funeral wail, and the sound of your lamentations shall again and again be heard!Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenanc-es, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!
-- I shall quit your vessel on the ice raft which brought me thither and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch who would create such another as I have been.
-- I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "In India, when a man dies he is burned, instead of buried, and his wife always climbs on the funeral pyre and isburned with him."
-- I loathe funeral cr脙陋pe."
-- He liked bright colors and Scarlett's funeral dresses and the cr脙陋pe veil that hungfrom her bonnet to her heels both amused him and offended him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This gradually led to a want of toleration for him, and even--on his being detected in holy orders, and declining to perform the funeral service--to the general indignation taking the form of nuts.
-- I noticed that after the funeral Joe changed his clothes so far, as to make a compromise between his Sunday dress and working dress; in which the dear fellow looked natural, and like the Man he was.
-- The cathedral chimes had at once a sadder and a more remote sound to me, as I hurried on avoiding observation, than they had ever had before; so, the swell of the old organ was borne to my ears like funeral music; and the rooks, as they hovered about the gray tower and swung in the bare high trees of the priory garden, seemed to call to me that the place was changed, and that Estella was gone out of it for ever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Could she, who had been so active in the getting up of the funeral triumph, do less than exult?
-- It was soon a funeral procession.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Great puddingy thighs in black pud-ding-cloth, or lean wooden sticks in black funeral stuff, or well-shaped young legs without any meaning whatever, ei-ther sensuality or tenderness or sensitiveness, just mere leggy ordinariness that pranced around.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Go out and ask what funeral here (it must be here, I know it can be nowhere else) will make more talk, and perhaps more grief, than any that has ever gone out at the gate.
-- The bills, as a variety in the funeral procession, almost amounted to a decoration.
-- And now, a sudden twist and stoppage of the carriage inspired Mr Dorrit with the mistrust that the brigand moment was come for twisting him into a ditch and robbing him; until, letting down the glass again and looking out, he perceived himself assailed by nothing worse than a funeral procession, which came mechanically chaunting by, with an indistinct show of dirty vestments, lurid torches, swinging censers, and a great cross borne before a priest.
-- The long rows of gaunt black piles, slimy and wet and weather-worn, with funeral garlands of seaweed twisted about them by the late tide, might have represented an unsightly marine cemetery.
-- With the funeral clang that it sounded into Arthur's heart, his sense of weakness returned.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'The funeral shall be this afternoon, and we will all go.
-- The maneuver did not succeed as well as she expect-ed, however, for though just in the act of setting fire to a funeral pyre, the Professor dropped his torch, metaphori-cally speaking, and made a dive after the little blue ball.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
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