embassy是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 大使馆,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You see that they are a bit worn, but they'll last a couple of months, for it's foreign work and foreign leather; the secretary of the English Embassy sold them last week he had only worn them six days, but he was very short of cash.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- About three weeks after this exploit, there arrived a sol-emn embassy from Blefuscu, with humble offers of a peace, which was soon concluded, upon conditions very advan-tageous to our emperor, wherewith I shall not trouble the reader.
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:
-- I felt that I was not carrying out my embassy with any great skill.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, as they had all been in the British Embassy way in sundry parts of the earth, and as a British Embassy cannot better establish a character with the Circumlocution Office than by treating its compatriots with illimitable contempt (else it would become like the Embassies of other countries), Clennam felt that on the whole they let him off lightly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Each time a company passed, Passepartout chuckled, and said to himself: "Good!another Japanese embassy departing for Europe!"
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