Christmas是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 圣诞节，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：
-- Paganel made the judicious observation that it was the 25th of December, the Christmas Day so dear to English hearts.
-- "Yes, sir," said Toline; "and I had the first prize for geography before the Christmas holidays."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I saw in one of those little miscellaneous shops news, sweets, toys, stationery, belated Christmas tomfoolery, and so forth an array of masks and noses.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this enterprise, however, he had more real difficulties than generally fell to the lot of a knight-errant of yore, who seldom had anything but giants, enchanters, fiery dragons, and such like easily conquered adversaries, to contend with and had to make his way mere-ly through gates of iron and brass, and walls of adamant to the castle keep, where the lady of his heart was confined; all which he achieved as easily as a man would carve his way to the centre of a Christmas pie; and then the lady gave him her hand as a matter of course.
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：
-- Chapter XXIVShortly before Christmas Dirk Stroeve came to ask me to spend the holiday with him.
-- But the season touched him with gentle feeling, and he hated the thought of Strickland spending Christmas Day by himself; he ascribed his own emotions to him, and could not bear that on an occasion given up to good-fellowship the lonely painter should be abandoned to his own melancholy.
-- They were sombre blues, opaque like a delicately carved bowl in lapis lazuli, and yet with a quivering lustre that suggested the palpitation of mysterious life; there were purples, horrible like raw and putrid flesh, and yet with a glowing, sensual passion that called up vague memories of the Roman Empire of Heliogabalus; there were reds, shrill like the berries of holly one thought of Christmas in England, and the snow, the good cheer, and the pleasure of children and yet by some magic softened till they had the swooning tenderness of a dove's breast; there were deep yellows that died with an unnatural passion into a green as fragrant as the spring and as pure as the sparkling water of a mountain brook.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Frumenty and mince pie,' the Gnat replied; 'and it makes its nest in a Christmas box.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That day being Christmas Day, Ned Land seemed to regret sorely the non-celebration of "Christmas," the family fete of which Protestants are so fond.
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：
-- Her appearance was a sore trial to her father, who said angrily:"Don't you think you might as well get yourself up for a Christmas cracker, an' ha' done with it?"
-- Christmas was not far off.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She kissed me gently: I was all flour making the Christmas cake, and it would not have done to give me a hug; and then she looked round for Heathcliff.
-- After playing lady's maid to the new comer, and putting my cakes in the oven, and making the house and kitchen cheerful with great fires, befitting Christmas eve, I prepared to sit down and amuse myself by singing carols, all alone; regardless of Joseph's affirmations that he considered the merry tunes I chose as next door to songs.
-- I gave due inward applause to every object, and then I remembered how old Earnshaw used to come in when all was tidied, and call me a cant lass, and slip a shilling into my hand as a Christmas box; and from that I went on to think of his fondness for Heathcliff, and his dread lest he should suffer neglect after death had removed him: and that naturally led me to consider the poor lad's situation now, and from singing I changed my mind to crying.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had seen a sailor who had visited that very island, and he told me that it was the custom, when a great battle had been gained there, to barbecue all the slain in the yard or garden of the victor; and then, one by one, they were placed in great wooden trenchers, and garnished round like a pilau, with breadfruit and cocoanuts; and with some parsley in their mouths, were sent round with the victor's compliments to all his friends, just as though these presents were so many Christmas turkeys.
-- Now, it being Christmas when the ship shot from out her harbor, for a space we had biting Polar weather, though all the time running away from it to the southward; and by every degree and minute of latitude which we sailed, gradually leaving that merciless winter, and all its intolerable weather behind us.
-- Lord, think of having half an acre of stomach-ache!Adverse winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I sincerely hope your Christmas in Hertfordshire may abound in the gaieties which that season generally brings, and that your beaux will be so numerous as to prevent your feeling the loss of the three of whom we shall deprive you.'
-- On the following Monday, Mrs. Bennet had the pleasure of receiving her brother and his wife, who came as usual to spend the Christmas at Longbourn.
-- Mrs. Bennet was restored to her usual querulous serenity; and, by the middle of June, Kitty was so much recovered as to be able to enter Meryton without tears; an event of such happy promise as to make Elizabeth hope that by the following Christmas she might be so tolerably reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day, unless, by some cruel and malicious arrangement at the War Office, another regi-ment should be quartered in Meryton.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I remember last Christmas at a little hop at the park, he danced from eight o'clock till four, without once sitting down."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Don't they give 'em holidays, the way we do, Christmas and New Year's week, and Fourth of July?'
-- Two years ago last Christmas your uncle Silas was coming up from Newrleans on the old Lally Rook, and she blowed out a cylinder-head and crippled a man.
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