owner是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 物主, 所有者,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The owner of one scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down at Scrooge's keyhole to regale him with a Christmas carol: but at the first sound of 'God bless you, merry gentleman!May nothing you dis-may!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Its owner went downstairs into the courtyard, got into his carriage, and drove away.
-- Who could that be with Mr. Lorry the owner of the riding-coat upon the chair who must not be seen?
-- When a name was called, its owner stepped apart into a spot reserved for those who were announced as being thus fatally recorded.
-- Mr. Jerry Cruncher's name, therefore, duly embellished the doorpost down be-low; and, as the afternoon shadows deepened, the owner of that name himself appeared, from overlooking a painter whom Doctor Manette had employed to add to the list the name of Charles Evremonde, called Darnay.
-- Then, traversing with the decided step of one who remembered the way well, several dark and dirty streets much dirtier than usual, for the best public thoroughfares remained uncleansed in those times of terror he stopped at a chemist's shop, which the owner was closing with his own hands.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had on the Shoes; for as yet no lawful owner had appeared to claim them; and besides it was so very dirty out-of-doors, they were just the thing for him, he thought.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The elephant, which its owner had reared, not for a beast of burden, but for warlike purposes, was half domesticated.
-- Yet the offer was an alluring one, for, supposing it took the elephant fifteen hours to reach Allahabad, his owner would receive no less than six hundred pounds sterling.
-- Mr. Fogg readily made a bargain with the owner of this land-craft.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her father, Andrew Jackson Tozer, sometimes known as Jackass Tozer; owner of the bank, of the creamery, and an elevator, therefore the chief person in town; pious at Wednesday evening prayer-meeting, fussing over every penny he gave to Leora or her mother.
-- There is one large hotel to compare with the dozen in Zenith, but that one is as busy and standardized and frenziedly modern as its owner can make it.
-- II Mrs. McCandless had once been a "hired girl"; then nurse, then confidante, then wife to the invalid Mr. McCandless, wholesale grocer and owner of real estate.
-- Most of them were still fishermen and plantation-foremen, but one of them, Kellett, a man small-mouthed and angry and industrious, had risen from office-boy to owner of a shipping company, and while his father still spread his nets on the beach at Point Carib, Kellett was the scourge of the House of Assembly and a hound for economy--particularly any economy which would annoy his fellow legislator, George William Vertigan.
-- Now of the Ice House, George William Vertigan, owner of The Blue Bazaar, was unchallenged monarch.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was particularly irritated by the owner of the flat which had been taken in view of his approaching marriage and was being redecorated at his own expense; the owner, a rich German tradesman, would not entertain the idea of break-ing the contract which had just been signed and insisted on the full forfeit money, though Pyotr Petrovitch would be giving him back the flat practically redecorated.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- and I went; and Dora leaned out of the carriage to talk tome, and we talked all the rest of the way; and I rode my gallantgrey so close to the wheel that I grazed his near fore-leg against it,and 'took the bark off,' as his owner told me, 'to the tune of threepun' sivin'- which I paid, and thought extremely cheap for somuch joy.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She followed another carriage to Mr. Cole's door; and was pleased to see that it was Mr. Knightley's; for Mr. Knight-ley keeping no horses, having little spare money and a great deal of health, activity, and independence, was too apt, in Emma's opinion, to get about as he could, and not use his carriage so often as became the owner of Donwell Abbey.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He then went to a ready-made clothes' shop, the owner of which had a large rural connection.
-- A curved settle of unplaned oak stretched along one side, and in a remote corner was a small bed and bedstead, the owner and frequent occupier of which was the maltster.
-- She was leaning back, sipping a cup of tea that she held in her hand, and the owner of the male voice was Boldwood, who had apparently just brought the cup to her, Bathsheba, being in a negligent mood, leant so idly against the canvas that it was pressed to the shape of her shoulder, and she was, in fact, as good as in Troy's arms; and he was obliged to keep his breast carefully backward that she might not feel its warmth through the cloth as he gazed in.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Towards the end of the first year the widow's suspicions had reached such a pitch that she began to wonder how it was that a retired merchant with a secure income of seven or eight thousand livres, the owner of such magnificent plate and jewelry handsome enough for a kept mistress, should be living in her house.
-- The door opened, and the owner of the tilbury suddenly appeared.
-- "That is the owner of the brougham!"
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