shepherd是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 牧羊人; vi. 带领, 照看,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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was indeed the ancient abode of Proteus, the old shepherd of Neptune's flocks, now the Island of Scarpanto, situated between Rhodes and Crete.
-- There, I can aver that earth and ice were lost to sight by the numbers of sea-mammals covering them, and I involuntarily sought for old Proteus, the mythological shepherd who watched these immense flocks of Neptune.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Never again can I behold such men as Pirithous and Dryas shepherd of his people, or as Caeneus, Exadius, god-like Polyphemus, and Theseus son of Aegeus, peer of the immortals.
-- King Mercury gave it to Pelops, the mighty chari-oteer, and Pelops to Atreus, shepherd of his people.
-- With this he left them and went onward to Nestor, the facile speaker of the Pylians, who was marshalling his men and urging them on, in company with Pelagon, Alastor, Chromius, Haemon, and Bias shepherd of his people.
-- As torrents swollen with rain course madly down their deep channels till the angry floods meet in some gorge, and the shepherd on the hillside hears their roaring from afar even such was the toil and uproar of the hosts as they joined in battle.
-- He was like a lion that some mountain shepherd has wounded, but not killed, as he is springing over the wall of a sheep-yard to attack the sheep.
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