雅思高频词汇【servant】,您了解多少?

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发布时间:2021-12-28 13:00:42

 

servant是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 仆人,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。

 

查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- As Oliver was told that he might do what he liked with the old clothes, he gave them to a servant who had been very kind to him, and asked her to sell them to a Jew, and keep the money for herself.

-- * * * * * * * * * The gas-lamps were lighted; Mrs. Bedwin was waiting anxiously at the open door; the servant had run up the street twenty times to see if there were any traces of Oliver; and still the two old gentlemen sat, perseveringly, in the dark parlour, with the watch between them.

-- The old servant looked up at the speaker, as she turned away, with a glance as proud and admiring as if she had been his own child.

-- The servant did not know; but would go and inquire.

-- Sending the plate, which had so excited Fagin's cupidity, to the banker's; and leaving Giles and another servant in care of the house, they departed to a cottage at some distance in the country, and took Oliver with them.

 

简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- Mrs. Bennet was prevented replying by the entrance of the footman with a note for Miss Bennet; it came from Netherfield, and the servant waited for an answer.

-- Breakfast was scarcely over when a servant from Netherfield brought the following note for Elizabeth: 'MY DEAREST LIZZY, 'I find myself very unwell this morning, which, I suppose, is to be imputed to my getting wet through yesterday.

-- Elizabeth most thankfully consented, and a servant was dispatched to Longbourn to acquaint the family with her stay and bring back a supply of clothes.

-- Collins, you must send a servant with them.

-- 'My uncle is to send a servant for us.'

 

丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- Neither was this all; for my goods being all English man-ufacture, such as cloths, stuffs, baize, and things particularly valuable and desirable in the country, I found means to sell them to a very great advantage; so that I might say I had more than four times the value of my first cargo, and was now infinitely beyond my poor neighbour - I mean in the advancement of my plantation; for the first thing I did, I bought me a negro slave, and an European servant also - I mean another besides that which the captain brought me from Lisbon.

-- And I must not forget that we had in the ship a dog and two cats, of whose eminent history I may have occasion to say some-thing in its place; for I carried both the cats with me; and as for the dog, he jumped out of the ship of himself, and swam on shore to me the day after I went on shore with my first cargo, and was a trusty servant to me many years; I wanted nothing that he could fetch me, nor any company that he could make up to me; I only wanted to have him talk to me, but that would not do.

-- But I needed none of all this precaution; for never man had a more faith-ful, loving, sincere servant than Friday was to me: without passions, sullenness, or designs, perfectly obliged and en-gaged; his very affections were tied to me, like those of a child to a father; and I daresay he would have sacrificed his life to save mine upon any occasion whatsoever - the many testimonies he gave me of this put it out of doubt, and soon convinced me that I needed to use no precautions for my safety on his account.

-- 'Be in no fear about that, sir,' said I; 'if God had sent an an-gel to relieve you, he would have come better clothed, and armed after another manner than you see me; pray lay aside your fears; I am a man, an Englishman, and disposed to assist you; you see I have one servant only; we have arms and ammunition; tell us freely, can we serve you?

-- With this view I took shipping for Lisbon, where I arrived in April following, my man Friday accompanying me very honestly in all these ramblings, and proving a most faithful servant upon all occasions.

 

简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- Without considering that it was not in her mother's plan to keep any horse, that if she were to alter her resolution in favour of this gift, she must buy another for the servant, and keep a servant to ride it, and after all, build a stable to receive them, she had accepted the present without hesitation, and told her sister of it in raptures.

-- On their return from the park they found Willoughby's curricle and servant in waiting at the cottage, and Mrs. Dashwood was convinced that her conjecture had been just.

-- But still I might not have believed it, for where the mind is perhaps rather unwilling to be convinced, it will always find something to support its doubts, if I had not, when the servant let me in today, accidentally seen a letter in his hand, directed to Mr. Willoughby in your sister's writing.

-- Regard for a former servant of my own, who had since fallen into misfortune, carried me to visit him in a spunging-house, where he was confined for debt; and there, in the same house, under a similar confinement, was my unfortunate sister.

-- said Lucy, as they walked up the stairs together for the Middletons arrived so directly after Mrs. Jennings, that they all followed the servant at the same time "There is nobody here but you, that can feel for me. I declare I can hardly stand.

 

路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- They shout and gesticulate tremendously but cannot agree, and Rodrigo is about to bear away the exhausted Zara, when the timid servant enters with a letter and a bag from Hagar, who has mysteriously disappeared.

-- laurie', and a surprisedlook-ing servant came running up to announce a young lady.

-- President and ladies I beg pardon, gentlemen allow me to introduce myself as Sam Weller, the very humble servant of the club.'

-- 'If she only had a servant or two it would be all right,' said Amy, coming out of the parlor, where she had been try-ing to decide whether the bronze Mercury looked best on the whatnot or the mantlepiece.

 

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