commission是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 委员会; 佣金; 军事任职; 考察团; vt. 委任, 任命, 委托,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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A frigate of great speed, the Abraham Lincoln, was put in commission as soon as possible.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Suddenly I remembered that he had got his commission to paint a portrait through the baker from whom he bought his bread, and it struck me that there one might find his address.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I told Tchebaroff that, as I was not in Petersburg, I would commission a friend to look into the matter without delay, and that I would let you know, Mr. Burdovsky.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr Swiveller appeared to think that they implied some mental struggle consequent upon the powerful effect of his address, for he poked his friend with his cane and whispered his conviction that he had administered 'a clincher,' and that he expected a commission on the profits.
-- 'I wish I only knew who his friends were,' muttered Sampson, filling his pocket with papers; 'if they'd just get up a pretty little Commission de lunatico at the Gray's Inn Coffee House and give me the job, I'd be content to have the lodgings empty for one while, at all events.'
-- The world, being in the constant commission of vast quantities of injustice, is a little too apt to comfort itself with the idea that if the victim of its falsehood and malice have a clear conscience, he cannot fail to be sustained under his trials, and somehow or other to come right at last; 'in which case,' say they who have hunted him down, ' though we certainly don't expect it nobody will be better pleased than we.'
-- The face, horribly seared by the frequent application of the red-hot poker, and further ornamented by the insertion, in the tip of the nose, of a tenpenny nail, yet smiled blandly in its less lacerated parts, and seemed, like a sturdy martyr, to provoke its tormentor to the commission of new outrages and insults.
-- Over and above these trifling penalties, his name was erased and blotted out from the roll of attorneys; which erasure has been always held in these latter times to be a great degradation and reproach, and to imply the commission of some amazing villany as indeed it would seem to be the case, when so many worthless names remain among its better records, unmolested.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Try to reach some people who have influence with the commission on petitions.
-- This could be corrected only through the Commission for Petitions, to which you sent your petition.
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