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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Though Pork's former owner later offered to buy him back at twice his value,Gerald obstinately refused, for the possession of his first slave, and that slave the "best damn valet on the Coast," wasthe first step upward toward his heart's desire, Gerald wanted to be a slave owner and a landed gentleman.
-- "I don't know why you're so happy this morning," said Suellen crossly, for the thought still rankled in her mindthat she would look far better in Scarlett's green silk dancing frock than its rightful owner would.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Skin the stockings off Mr. Waldengarver," said the owner of that property, "or you'll bust 'em.
-- I says to myself, 'If I ain't a gentleman, nor yet ain't got no learning, I'm the owner of such.
-- "What I think of, Wemmick, is the poor owner of the property."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- '; a cloak that made the owner invisible, or gave him any form he pleased; and a pair of boots that carried the wearer wherever he wished.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The seamen at their landing observed my canoe, and rummaging it all over, easily con-jectured that the owner could not be far off.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "To me it appears probable that this sentence was written by some owner of the book.
-- The indentations on the bar of iron are the marks of teeth!What jaws must the owner of such molars be possessed of!Have well then, come upon a monster of unknown species, which still exists within the vast waste of waters--a monster more voracious than a shark, more terrible and bulky than the whale?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Former owner of the remarkable watch, perhaps?'
-- I had no idea the rightful owner would come back so soon, nor had I any idea that he had come back, or I should have hastened to make restoration of my ill-gotten chamber, and to have offered my explanation and apology.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It must have possessed some magic, for the submissive spirit of its gentle owner seemed to enter into Jo, and when Laurie came running down with a glass of wine, she took it with a smile, and said bravely, 'I drink Health to my Beth!You are a good doctor, Teddy, and such a comfortable friend.
-- A universal favorite, thanks to money, manners, much talent, and the kindest heart that ever got its owner into scrapes by trying to get other peo-ple out of them, he stood in great danger of being spoiled, and probably would have been, like many another prom-ising boy, if he had not possessed a talisman against evil in the memory of the kind old man who was bound up in his success, the motherly friend who watched over him as if he were her son, and last, but not least by any means, the knowledge that four innocent girls loved, admired, and be-lieved in him with all their hearts.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Meanwhile Captain Bildad sat earnestly and steadfastly eyeing Queequeg, and at last rising solemnly and fumbling in the huge pockets of his broad-skirted drab coat, took out a bundle of tracts, and selecting one entitled "The Latter Day Coming; or No Time to Lose," placed it in Queequeg's hands, and then grasping them and the book with both his, looked earnestly into his eyes, and said, "Son of darkness, I must do my duty by thee; I am part owner of this ship, and feel concerned for the souls of all its crew; if thou still clingest to thy Pagan ways, which I sadly fear, I beseech thee, remain not for aye a Belial bondsman.
-- cried a voice, whose owner at the same time coming close behind us, laid a hand upon both our shoulders, and then insinuating himself between us, stood stooping forward a little, in the uncertain twilight, strangely peering from Queequeg to me.
-- But it is only found on the sinister side, which has an ill effect, giving its owner something analogous to the aspect of a clumsy left-handed man.
-- Therefore when he betrayed this solicitude about the safety of the ship, some of the seamen declared that it was only on account of his being a part owner in her.
-- But look ye, the only real owner of anything is its commander; and hark ye, my conscience is in this ship's keel. On deck!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Oliver had been too often subjected to the process to which the very expressive monosyllable just recorded bears reference, to entertain the smallest doubt that the owner of the voice, whoever he might be, would redeem his pledge, most honourably.
-- 'I consider, sir, that you have obtained possession of that book, under very suspicious and disreputable circumstances; and you may think yourself very fortunate that the owner of the property declines to prosecute.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He did look at it, and into it for half-an-hour was pleased with the situa-tion and the principal rooms, satisfied with what the owner said in its praise, and took it immediately.
-- They descended the hill, crossed the bridge, and drove to the door; and, while examining the nearer aspect of the house, all her apprehension of meeting its owner returned.
-- As they walked across the hall towards the river, Eliza-beth turned back to look again; her uncle and aunt stopped also, and while the former was conjecturing as to the date of the building, the owner of it himself suddenly came for-ward from the road, which led behind it to the stables.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.
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