Chinese是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 中国的 n. 中国人,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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Portraits were hang-ing on the walls, and near the white porcelain stove stood 70 Andersen's Fairy Talestwo large Chinese vases with lions on the covers.
-- He was dragging along some pointed flat pieces of ice, which he laid together in all possible ways, for he wanted to make some-thing with them; just as we have little flat pieces of wood to make geometrical figures with, called the Chinese Puz-zle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She had, it seems, a Parsee relation, who was one of the principal merchants of Hong Kong, which is wholly an English city, though on an island on the Chinese coast.
-- IN WHICH FIX DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IN THE LEAST WHAT IS SAID TO HIMThe Rangoon one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing about seventeen hundred and seventy tons, and with engines of four hundred horse-power.
-- Singapore is distant some thirteen hundred miles from the island of Hong Kong, which is a little English colony near the Chinese coast.
-- Hong Kong has beaten Macao in the struggle for the Chinese trade, and now the greater part of the transportation of Chinese goods finds its depot at the former place.
-- At the Victoria port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: English, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trading vessels, Japanese and Chinese junks, sempas, tankas, and flower-boats, which formed so many floating parterres.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The warrior who had been telling of feeding five thousand Tatars, of receiving a degree from a Chinese university and refusing a decoration from quite a good Balkan king, looked affectionately on his band of one disciple and demanded, "Was it all right--was it?
-- It is a little isle of the southern West Indies, but St. Hubert supports a hundred thousand people-- English planters and clerks, Hindu road-makers, Negro cane-hands, Chinese merchants.
-- Beyond the courtyard walls were the upper stories of a balconied Chinese shop and the violent- colored skylight of The Blue Bazaar.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What the knitting was, I don't know, not being learned in 529that art; but it looked like a net; and as she worked away withthose Chinese chop-sticks of knitting-needles, she showed in thefirelight like an ill-looking enchantress, baulked as yet by theradiant goodness opposite, but getting ready for a cast of her netby and by.
-- It would bebetter for them to buy the goods at once, without this ceremony ofinspection; for, when we go to see a kitchen fender and meat-screen, Dora sees a Chinese house for Jip, with little bells on thetop, and prefers that.
-- She was soon my child-wife indeed;sitting down on the floor outside the Chinese house, ringing all thelittle bells one after another, to punish Jip for his recent badbehaviour; while Jip lay blinking in that doorway with his headout, even too lazy to be teased.
-- His Chinese house is by the fire; and he lies within it, on his bed offlannel, querulously trying to sleep.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Learnt all languages while he was there; and it was said he got on so far that he could take down Chinese in shorthand; but that I don't answer for, as it was only reported.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Indeed I have little doubt,' said Flora, running on with astonishing speed, and pointing her conversation with nothing but commas, and very few of them, 'that you are married to some Chinese lady, being in China so long and being in business and naturally desirous to settle and extend your connection nothing was more likely than that you should propose to a Chinese lady and nothing was more natural I am sure than that the Chinese lady should accept you and think herself very well off too, I only hope she's not a Pagodian dissenter.'
-- tittered Flora; 'but of course you never did why should you, pray don't answer, I don't know where I'm running to, oh do tell me something about the Chinese ladies whether their eyes are really so long and narrow always putting me in mind of mother-of-pearl fish at cards and do they really wear tails down their back and plaited too or is it only the men, and when they pull their hair so very tight off their foreheads don't they hurt themselves, and why do they stick little bells all over their bridges and temples and hats and things or don't they really do it?'
-- 'Dear dear,' said Flora, 'only to think of the changes at home Arthur cannot overcome it, and seems so natural, Mr Clennam far more proper since you became familiar with the Chinese customs and language which I am persuaded you speak like a Native if not better for you were always quick and clever though immensely difficult no doubt, I am sure the tea chests alone would kill me if I tried, such changes Arthur I am doing it again, seems so natural, most improper as no one could have believed, who could have ever imagined Mrs Finching when I can't imagine it myself!'
-- 'You don't seem so,' pouted Flora, 'you take it very coolly, but however I know you are disappointed in me, I suppose the Chinese ladies Mandarinesses if you call them so are the cause or perhaps I am the cause myself, it's just as likely.'
-- And there was not a list, in all the Circumlocution Office, of places that might fall vacant anywhere within half a century, from a lord of the Treasury to a Chinese consul, and up again to a governor-general of India, but as applicants for such places, the names of some or of every one of these hungry and adhesive Barnacles were down.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
-- Perhaps he got it as his scientific predecessor in the same field, Desmarest, got one of his authentic abortions; that is, from a Chinese drawing.
-- And what sort of lively lads with the pencil those Chinese are, many queer cups and saucers inform us.
-- They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.
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