conduct是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 行为, 品行v. 引导; 管理; 指挥(乐队) ; 传导,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:
-- 芒聙娄" So Scarlett's trunk was packed again with her mourning clothes and off she went to Atlanta with Wade Hamptonand his nurse Prissy, a headful of admonitions as to her conduct from Ellen and Mammy and a hundred dollars inConfederate bills from Gerald.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The same opportunity served me for noticing that Mr. Pumblechook appeared to conduct his business by looking across the street at the saddler, who appeared to transact his business by keeping his eye on the coachmaker, who appeared to get on in life by putting his hands in his pockets and contemplating the baker, who in his turn folded his arms and stared at the grocer, who stood at his door and yawned at the chemist.
-- At once ferocious and maudlin, I was made to murder my uncle with no extenuating circumstances whatever; Millwood put me down in argument, on every occasion; it became sheer monomania in my master's daughter to care a button for me; and all I can say for my gasping and procrastinating conduct on the fatal morning, is, that it was worthy of the general feebleness of my character.
-- Finally, I went out into the air, with a dim perception that there was something unwonted in the conduct of the sunshine, and found that I had slumberously got to the turnpike without having taken any account of the road.
-- Which side he was on I couldn't make out, for he seemed to me to be grinding the whole place in a mill; I only know that when I stole out on tiptoe, he was not on the side of the bench; for, he was making the legs of the old gentleman who presided, quite convulsive under the table, by his denunciations of his conduct as the representative of British law and justice in that chair that day.
-- Of the conduct of the worldly minded Pumblechook while this was doing, I desire to say no more than it was all addressed to me; and that even when those noble passages were read which remind humanity how it brought nothing into the world and can take nothing out, and how it fleeth like a shadow and never continueth long in one stay, I heard him cough a reservation of the case of a young gentleman who came unexpectedly into large property.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He fell next upon the management of our treasury; and said, 'he thought my memory had failed me, because I com-puted our taxes at about five or six millions a-year, and when I came to mention the issues, he found they sometimes amounted to more than double; for the notes he had taken were very particular in this point, because he hoped, as he told me, that the knowledge of our conduct might be use-ful to him, and he could not be deceived in his calculations.
-- It does not appear, from all you have said, how any one perfection is required toward the procurement of any one station among you; much less, that men are en-nobled on account of their virtue; that priests are advanced for their piety or learning; soldiers, for their conduct or valour; judges, for their integrity; senators, for the love of their country; or counsellors for their wisdom.
-- From this way of reasoning, the author drew several moral applications, useful in the conduct of life, but needless here to repeat.
-- This prince was so gracious as to order a guard to conduct me to Glanguenstald, which is a royal port to the south- west part of the island.
-- I tried my canoe in a large pond, near my master's house, and then corrected in it what was amiss; stopping all the chinks with Yahoos' tallow, till I found it staunch, and able to bear me and my freight; and, when it was as complete as I could possibly make it, I had it drawn on a carriage very gently by Yahoos to the sea-side, under the conduct of the sorrel nag and another servant.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And how shows this recreant conduct in a man on whom unequal laws are known to have fallen heavy?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nothing in his conduct or character justified suspicion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whether you ever observed anything in his conduct suggesting that; or ever spoke to him upon it, or ever heard him hint at such a thing?'
-- Hola, my husband!My husband would conduct him up-stairs.
-- Mr Meagles (who had been extremely solicitous to know how his uncle and aunt were) begged him to conduct Mrs Meagles to the dining-room.
-- While the succession was yet in abeyance, he assisted his mother in the conduct of a snug tobacco business round the corner of Horsemonger Lane (his father being a non-resident turnkey), which could usually command a neat connection within the College walls.
-- The Chivery parents were not ignorant of their son's attachment indeed it had, on some exceptional occasions, thrown him into a state of mind that had impelled him to conduct himself with irascibility towards the customers, and damage the business but they, in their turns, had worked it out to desirable conclusions.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- cried Jo, prancing about while Meg went to conduct Mother to the seat of honor.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And how pleasing to God was this conduct in Jonah, is shown in the eventual deliverance of him from the sea and the whale.
-- Nevertheless, as upon the good conduct of the harpooneers the success of a whaling voyage largely depends, and since in the American Fishery he is not only an important officer in the boat, but under certain circumstances (night watches on a whaling ground) the command of the ship's deck is also his; therefore the grand political maxim of the sea demands, that he should nominally live apart from the men before the mast, and be in some way distinguished as their professional superior; though always, by them, familiarly regarded as their social equal.
-- Can we, then, by the citation of some of those instances wherein this thing of whiteness though for the time either wholly or in great part stripped of all direct associations calculated to impart to it aught fearful, but nevertheless, is found to exert over us the same sorcery, however modified; can we thus hope to light upon some chance clue to conduct us to the hidden cause we seek?
-- But even had this not been the case, he would not after all, perhaps, have boarded her judging by his subsequent conduct on similar occasions if so it had been that, by the process of hailing, he had obtained a negative answer to the question he put.
-- "Upon hearing the frantic project of their leader, each in his own separate soul had suddenly lighted, it would seem, upon the same piece of treachery, namely: to be foremost in breaking out, in order to be the first of the three, though the last of the ten, to surrender; and thereby secure whatever small chance of pardon such conduct might merit.
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