mother是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 母亲,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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On the other hand, it is the son-in-law who turns his wife's mother out of the house.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My mother had much desired to have a daughter, but I continued their single offspring.
-- Among these there was one which at-tracted my mother far above all the rest.
-- The peasant woman, perceiving that my mother fixed eyes of wonder and admiration on this lovely girl, eagerly communicated her history.
-- Her mother was a Ger-man and had died on giving her birth.
-- With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "What did your mother say about you two being expelled again?"
-- "Will your mother ride the new horse to the Wilkes barbecue tomorrow?"
-- You know Mother said if we got expelledfrom another college we couldn't have our Grand Tour."
-- Mother saysit's because their grandfather came from Virginia.
-- The twins had been at home, freshly expelled fromthe University of Virginia, at the time the Troop was organized and they had joined enthusiastically; but after theshooting episode, two months ago, their mother had packed them off to the state university, with orders to stay there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.
-- "'Consequence, my mother and me we ran away from my father several times; and then my mother she'd go out to work, and she'd say, "Joe," she'd say, "now, please God, you shall have some schooling, child," and she'd put me to school.
-- "You're a foul shrew, Mother Gargery," growled the journeyman.
-- After this memorable event, I went to the hatter's, and the bootmaker's, and the hosier's, and felt rather like Mother Hubbard's dog whose outfit required the services of so many trades.
-- Her mother died when she was a baby, and her father denied her nothing.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At last he said, 'Master, my time is up; I must go home and see my poor mother once more: so pray pay me my wages and let me go.'
-- How happy my mother will be!Talk of a pig, indeed!Give me a fine fat goose.'
-- This child was a daughter, who was very beautiful; and her mother loved her dearly, and was very kind to her.
-- And there was a good fairy too, who was fond of the princess, and helped her mother to watch over her.
-- And the lock answered her, and said: 'Alas!alas!if thy mother knew it, Sadly, sadly, would she rue it.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For, since the conjunction of male and female is founded upon the great law of na-ture, in order to propagate and continue the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are joined together, like other animals, by the motives of con-cupiscence; and that their tenderness towards their young proceeds from the like natural principle: for which reason they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for bring-ing him into the world; which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself, nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts, in their love encounters, were otherwise employed.
-- The mother, out of pure indulgence, took me up, and put me towards the child, who presently seized me by the middle, and got my head into his mouth, where I roared so loud that the urchin was frighted, and let me drop, and I should infallibly have broke my neck, if the mother had not held her apron under me.
-- Her mother and she contrived to fit up the baby's cradle for me against night: the cradle was put into a small drawer of a cabinet, and the drawer placed upon a hanging shelf for fear of the rats.
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