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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They pinched and saved so that I should have enough to live on, and when my first picture was exhibited they came to Amsterdam to see it, my father and mother and my sister, and my mother cried when she looked at it."
-- She was dressed usually in a pink Mother Hubbard, and she wore all day long a large straw hat.
-- I had a girl here then called Ata to do the rooms; she was some sort of a relation of mine, and her father and mother were dead, so I had her to live with me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "It was still sucking its mother when I found it in the trap."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Her mother was, and she was poor.
-- 'And his mother died!'
-- In her bower she was, but not alone, for besides the old lady her mother of whom mention has recently been made, there were present some half-dozen ladies of the neighborhood who had happened by a strange accident (and also by a little understanding among themselves) to drop in one after another, just about tea-time.
-- Moved by these considerations, a stout lady opened the proceedings by inquiring, with an air of great concern and sympathy, how Mr Quilp was; whereunto Mr Quilp's wife's mother replied sharply, 'Oh!He was well enough nothing much was every the matter with him and ill weeds were sure to thrive.'
-- 'Mother knows,' said Mrs Quilp, 'that what I say is quite correct, for she often said so before we were married.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sixth child, begotten of a passing gypsy, was a girl, who would have shared the same fate, but it happened that one of the two old maidens entered the cow-shed to reprimand the milkmaids for carelessness in skimming the cream, and there saw the mother with the healthy and beautiful child.
-- She baptized the child, and in pity for her god-daughter, furnished her with milk, gave the mother some money, and the babe thrived.
-- The child was three years old when the mother fell ill and died.
-- The mother threw all blame upon Maslova and discharged her.
-- Ordinarily he lived on the estate of his mother, near Moskow, with his mother and sister.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mother Necessity, who had been staved off for a few thousand years, came back again, and she began below.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He sank daily, and my mother and I had all the inn upon our hands, and were kept busy enough without paying much regard to our unpleasant guest.
-- Well, mother was upstairs with father and I was laying the breakfast-table against the captain's return when the parlour door opened and a man stepped in on whom I had never set my eyes before.
-- 4 The Sea-chestLOST no time, of course, in telling my mother all that I knew, and perhaps should have told her long before, and we saw ourselves at once in a difficult and dangerous position.
-- The captain's order to mount at once and ride for Doctor Livesey would have left my mother alone and unprotected, which was not to be thought of.
-- They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; and so when each had said his say, my mother made them a speech.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were more seals than anything else, forming distinct groups, male and female, the father watching over his family, the mother suckling her little ones, some already strong enough to go a few steps.
-- The poor Frenchman, forgetting his conventional language, had taken to his own mother tongue, to utter a last appeal!Amongst the crew of the Nautilus, associated with the body and soul of the Captain, recoiling like him from all contact with men, I had a fellow-countryman.
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:
-- "His mother is an old, unbroken wolf."
-- The mother looked up at him with sudden, dark interrogation, as if doubting his sincerity.
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