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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Achaeans shall give him all due funeral rites, while dogs and vultures shall work their will upon yourself.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Then Heaven knows why I fell thinking of my father's funeral again, and the dismal windy hillside, until the day had come.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Deprived of his book and his pipe, he was fain to trust to a memory that rarely failed him on such subjects; and breaking forth in a loud and im-passioned strain, he endeavored to smooth his passage into the other world by singing the opening verse of a funeral anthem.
-- Chapter 32 'But plagues shall spread, and funeral fires increase, Till the great king, without a ransom paid, To her own Chrysa send the black-eyed maid.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Many dismal tales were told about funeral trains, and mourning cries and wailings heard and seen about the great tree where the unfortunate Major Andre was taken, and which stood in the neighborhood.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On the night before the funeral he was as drunk as ever; and it was shocking, in that house of mourning, to hear him singing away at his ugly old sea-song; but weak as he was, we were all in the fear of death for him, and the doctor was suddenly taken up with a case many miles away and was never near the house after my father's death.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- During the whole day, I was haunted by uncomfortable suspicions, and at night I slept badly, and between my broken dreams I fancied I heard distant sighs like the notes of a funeral psalm.
-- Then the funeral procession returned to the Nautilus, passing under the arches of the forest, in the midst of thickets, along the coral bushes, and still on the ascent.
-- But the sharks did not fail to help them at their funeral work.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Why, she's sunk very low, Mester Crich, she's a'most gone, she is "Sometimes, it seemed to Mrs Crich as if her husband were some subtle funeral bird, feeding on the miseries of the people.
-- How happy they were, how cosy and glamorous it was with them, in a world of lofty shadows!The outside world, in which he had been transacting funeral business all the day was completely wiped out.
-- The funeral was detestable.
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