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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lady Helena paid him sincere compliments on his mythological visitants, and so did the Major, though he could not forbear adding:"But mind no fits of absence of mind, my dear Paganel; and if you take a fancy to learn Australian, don't go and study it in a Chinese grammar."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Do break SOMETHING at least, in the drawing-room!Upset the Chinese vase, won't you?
-- At the beginning of the evening, when the prince first came into the room, he had sat down as far as possible from the Chinese vase which Aglaya had spoken of the day be-fore.
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 called the Chinese boy.
-- From morning till night you saw her sitting on a low chair in the kitchen, surrounded by a Chinese cook and two or three native girls, giving her orders, chatting sociably with all and sundry, and tasting the savoury messes she devised.
-- When the Chinese laundryman refused to wash for him without payment she had sent his things to be washed with hers.
-- Then her eyes, always alert for the affairs of her kitchen, fell on some action of the Chinese cook which aroused her violent disapproval.
-- I had noticed him at luncheon, and Ah Lin, the Chinese boy, told me he had come from the Paumotus on the boat that had that day arrived.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "No," replied Harding, "it is wormwood; Chinese wormwood to the learned, but to us it will be tinder."
-- "I may say, Pencroft, that the bark of the bamboo, cut into flexible laths, is used for making baskets; that this bark, mashed into a paste, is used for the manufacture of Chinese paper; that the stalks furnish, according to their size, canes and pipes and are used for conducting water; that large bamboos make excellent material for building, being light and strong, and being never attacked by insects.
-- Some belonged to the Chinese species, of which the wings open like a fan, and which by the brilliancy of their plumage rival the golden pheasants.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was no less tickled than his hopeful assistant, and they both stood for some seconds, grinning and gasping and wagging their heads at each other, on either side of the post, like an unmatchable pair of Chinese idols.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was larger than the largest of the palaces or ruins I knew, and the fa脙搂ade had an Oriental look: the face of it having the lustre, as well as the pale-green tint, a kind of bluish-green, of a certain type of Chinese porcelain.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Its skin, chestnut-brown above and silvery underneath, would have made one of those beautiful furs so sought after in the Russian and Chinese markets: the fineness and the lustre of its coat would certainly fetch L80.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had taken a Chinese drawing of geese from the boudoir, and was copying it, with much skill and vividness.
-- The Chinese Ambassador gave it me."
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Look!here, far water-locked; beyond all hum of human weal or woe; in these most candid and impartial seas; where to traditions no rocks furnish tablets; where for long Chinese ages, the billows have still rolled on speechless and unspoken to, as stars that shine upon the Niger's unknown source; here, too, life dies sunwards full of faith; but see!no sooner dead, than death whirls round the corpse, and it heads some other way.
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