brazil是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 巴西,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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is the whale which for more than two centuries past has been hunted by the Dutch and English in the Arctic seas; it is the whale which the American fishermen have long pursued in the Indian ocean, on the Brazil Banks, on the Nor' West Coast, and various other parts of the world, designated by them Right Whale Cruising Grounds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Why do I secretly give Miss Shepherd twelve Brazil nuts for apresent, I wonder?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- - Every day, to this day, I worked on the wreck; and with hard labour I loosened some things so much with the crow, that the first flowing tide several casks floated out, and two of the seamen's chests; but the wind blowing from the shore, nothing came to land that day but pieces of tim-ber, and a hogshead, which had some Brazil pork in it; but the salt water and the sand had spoiled it.
-- So, after a great deal of time lost in searching for a stone, I gave it over, and resolved to look out for a great block of hard wood, which I found, indeed, much easier; and getting one as big as I had strength to stir, I rounded it, and formed it on the outside with my axe and hatchet, and then with the help of fire and infinite labour, made a hollow place in it, as the Indians in Brazil make their canoes.
-- He was now grown old, and had left off going to sea, having put his son, who was far from a young man, into his ship, and who still used the Brazil trade.
-- It is impossible to express the flutterings of my very heart when I found all my wealth about me; for as the Brazil ships come all in fleets, the same ships which brought my letters brought my goods: and the effects were safe in the river before the letters came to my hand.
-- In order to prepare things for my going home, I first (the Brazil fleet being just going away) resolved to give answers suitable to the just and faithful account of things I had from thence; and, first, to the Prior of St. Augustine I wrote aletter full of thanks for his just dealings, and the offer of the eight hundred and seventy-two moidores which were undisposed of, which I desired might be given, five hun-dred to the monastery, and three hundred and seventy-two to the poor, as the prior should direct; desiring the good padre's prayers for me, and the like.
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