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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The name of the yacht was the DUNCAN, and the owner was Lord Glenarvan, one of the sixteen Scotch peers who sit in the Upper House, and the most distinguished member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, so famous throughout the United Kingdom.
-- The leader, or to give him his proper designation, the stock-keeper, was part owner of the drove.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How is the owner going to restore the glories of the Baskervilles if he has not money enough to keep up the property?
-- At oth-ers he will with his own hands tear down some other man's gate and declare that a path has existed there from time im-memorial, defying the owner to prosecute him for trespass.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At last he gave the door a final shove, entered, approached the prince, took his hand and seated himself and the owner of the room on two chairs side by side.
-- On the ground-floor there is usually a money-changer's shop, and the owner lives over it.
-- 'The owner was now some forty yards ahead of me, and was very soon lost in the crowd.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were three binders, and behind them there were boys who gathered the cut corn in armfuls and kept on bringing them to be bound: among them all the owner of the land stood by in silence and was glad.
-- As the north wind, blowing on an orchard that has been sodden with autumn rain, soon dries it, and the heart of the owner is glad even so the whole plain was dried and the dead bodies were consumed.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In spite of the improvements and additions which were making to the Norland estate, and in spite of its owner having once been within some thousand pounds of being obliged to sell out at a loss, nothing gave any symptom of that indigence which he had tried to infer from it; no poverty of any kind, except of conversation, appeared but there, the deficiency was considerable.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The day after Carrie's appearance on the Avery stage, Mrs. Hurstwood visited the races with Jessica and a youth of her acquaintance, Mr. Bart Taylor, the son of the owner of a local house-furnishing establishment.
-- The owner claimed the business to be excellent, and it certainly looked so.
-- There was no property involved, because the owner of the saloon merely rented from an estate.
-- It so happened, however, that a real estate deal on the part of the owner of the land arranged things even more effectually than ill- will could have schemed.
-- and the new owner won't release it to us.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I'm the captain and the owner and the mate and the pilot and watchman and head deck-hand; and some- times I'm the freight and passengers.
-- I was trying to make my mouth SAY I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger's owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it.
-- But the others said, don't do it, it wouldn't answer at all; he ain't our nigger, and his owner would turn up and make us pay for him, sure.
-- They cussed Jim considerble, though, and give him a cuff or two side the head once in a while, but Jim never said nothing, and he never let on to know me, and they took him to the same cabin, and put his own clothes on him, and chained him again, and not to no bed-leg this time, but to a big staple drove into the bot- tom log, and chained his hands, too, and both legs, and said he warn't to have noth-ing but bread and water to eat after this till his owner come, or he was sold at auc- tion because he didn't come in a cer-tain length of time, and filled up our hole, and said a couple of farmers with guns must stand watch around about the cabin every night, and a bulldog tied to the door in the day- time; and about this time they was through with the job and was tapering off with a kind of generl good-bye cussing, and then the old doctor comes and takes a look, and says: 'Don't be no rougher on him than you're obleeged to, be-cause he ain't a bad nigger.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was the owner of the field, who was coming on tiptoes to see if, by chance, he had caught the Weasels which had been eating his chickens.
-- CHAPTER 33 Pinocchio, having become a Donkey, is bought by the owner of a Circus, who wants to teach him to do tricks.
-- Pinocchio went to the owner of a circus, who wanted to teach him to do tricks for his audiences.
-- When the first part of the performance was over, the Owner and Manager of the circus, in a black coat, white knee breeches, and patent leather boots, presented himself to the public and in a loud, pompous voice made the following announcement: "Most honored friends, Gentlemen and Ladies!
-- His new owner took him to a high cliff overlooking the sea, put a stone around his neck, tied a rope to one of his hind feet, gave him a push, and threw him into the water.
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