wealth是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 财富, 财产; 大量,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I wouldn't for the wealth of all the world have crushed that braided hair, and torn it down; and for the precious lit-tle shoe, I wouldn't have plucked it off, God bless my soul.
-- 'His wealth is of no use to him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lands gone out of cultivation, overgrown with weeds, or divided among the peasants, and where millions of bushels were raised you get a hundred thousand; the wealth of the country has decreased.
-- Political economy told him that the laws by which the wealth of Europe had been developed, and was developing, were universal and unvarying.
-- It seemed to him that in a normal development of wealth in a state all these phenomena would arise only when a considerable amount of labor had been put into agriculture, when it had come under regular, or at least definite, conditions; that the wealth of a country ought to increase proportionally, and especially in such a way that other sources of wealth should not outstrip agriculture; that in harmony with a certain stage of agriculture there should be means of communication corresponding to it, and that in our unsettled condition of the land, railways, called into being by political and not by economic needs, were premature, and instead of promoting agriculture, as was expected of them, they were competing with agriculture and promoting the development of manufactures and credit, and so arresting its progress; and that just as the one-sided and premature development of one organ in an animal would hinder its general development, so in the general development of wealth in Russia, credit, facilities of communication, manufacturing activity, indubitably necessary in Europe, where they had arisen in their proper time, had with us only done harm, by throwing into the background the chief question calling for settlement--the question of the organization of agriculture.
-- All she had seen in entering the house and walking through it, and all she saw now in her room, gave her an impression of wealth and sumptuousness and of that modern European luxury of which she had only read in English novels, but had never seen in Russia and in the country.
-- "Yes, but you mustn't forget that you and I.... And besides that," added Anna, in spite of the wealth of her arguments and the poverty of Dolly's objections, seeming still to admit that it was not right, "don't forget the chief point, that I am not now in the same position as you.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her narrow and supple waist, which a hand may clasp around, sets forth the outline of her rounded figure and the beauty of her bosom, where youth in its flower displays the wealth of its treasures; and beneath the silken folds of her tunic she seems to have been modelled in pure silver by the godlike hand of Vicvarcarma, the immortal sculptor."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It should have been buzzing with jovial buyers and sellers, but in all the gaudy booths there were only one Negress with a row of twig besoms, one Hindu in gray rags squatting before his wealth of a dozen vegetables.
-- He had tentatively heard of her dead husband as a young man of wealth and family; he seemed to remember having seen in Vanity Fair a picture of the Lanyons at Palm Beach.
-- Joyce had wealth and energy.
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:
-- Therefore, in acquiring wealth solely and exclusively for myself, I am acquiring, so to speak, for all, and helping to 216 Crime and Punishmentbring to pass my neighbour's getting a little more than a torn coat; and that not from private, personal liberality, but as a consequence of the general advance.
-- Everyone knows that Semyon Zaharov-itch had many friends and protectors, whom he abandoned himself from an honourable pride, knowing his unhappy weakness, but now (she pointed to Raskolnikov) a generous young man has come to our assistance, who has wealth and connections and whom Semyon Zaharovitch has known from a child.
-- It wasn't to help my mother I did the murder that's nonsense I didn't do the murder to gain wealth and power and to become a benefactor of mankind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Any gap at your fireside on such a night- such agap least of all- I wouldn't make, for the wealth of the Indies!'
-- Heaven forbid that I should grudge my nativecountry any portion of the wealth that may be accumulated by ourdescendants!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some scruples and some reluctance the widower-father may be supposed to have felt; but as they were overcome by other considerations, the child was given up to the care and the wealth of the Churchills, and he had only his own comfort to seek, and his own situation to im-prove as he could.
-- My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings, Lords of the earth!their luxury and ease.
-- My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings, Lords of the earth!their luxury and ease.
-- If ever there were people who, without hav-210 Emmaing great wealth themselves, had every thing they could wish for, I am sure it is us.
-- He might not be aware of the inroads on domestic peace to be occasioned by no housekeeper's room, or a bad butler's pantry, but no doubt he did perfectly feel that Enscombe could not make him happy, and that when-ever he were attached, he would willingly give up much of wealth to be allowed an early establishment.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- WEALTH IN JEOPARDY THE REVELOne night, at the end of August, when Bathsheba's experiences as a married woman were still new, and when the weather was yet dry and sultry, a man stood motionless in the stockyard of Weatherbury Upper Farm, looking at the moon and sky.
-- He mounted the third pile of wealth and began operating, adopting the plan of sloping the upper sheaves one over the other; and, in addition, filling the interstices with the material of some untied sheaves.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For those narrow souls, or for careless youth, the misery in Father Goriot's withered face and its dull apathy were 莽卢卢14 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 quite incompatible with wealth or any sort of intelligence.
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