tray是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 盘, 碟, 托盘,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When Mrs. Hall took his dinner in to him, he was already so absorbed in his work, pouring little drops out of the bottles into test-tubes, that he did not hear her until she had swept away the bulk of the straw and put the tray on the table, with some little emphasis perhaps, seeing the state that the floor was in.
-- She had deliberated over this scene, and she came holding a little tray with an unsettled bill upon it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was now dressed in white, and carried a little tray with some cof-fee and boiled vegetables thereon.
-- I could hardly repress a shuddering recoil as he came, bending amiably, and placed the tray before me on the table.
-- ONTGOMERY interrupted my tangle of mystification Mand suspicion about one o'clock, and his grotesque at- tendant followed him with a tray bearing bread, some herbs and other eatables, a flask of whiskey, a jug of water, and three glasses and knives.
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:
-- The waiter, an undersized youth with a flat, spotty face, hurried to and fro carrying a tray laden with glasses of beer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Having, as it were, taken formal possession of his clerkship in virtue of these proceedings, he opened the window and leaned negligently out of it until a beer-boy happened to pass, whom he commanded to set down his tray and to serve him with a pint of mild porter, which he drank upon the spot and promptly paid for, with the view of breaking ground for a system of future credit and opening a correspondence tending thereto, without loss of time.
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:
-- He set the tray on a little table before the couch.
-- Again the man-servant who invariably disappeared between the hours of ten and twelve at night came in silently and inscrutably with tea, bending in a slow, strange, leopard-like fashion to put the tray softly on the table.
-- The man brought in the tray and set it down.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I smelt the rich scent of the heating spices; and admired the shining kitchen utensils, the polished clock, decked in holly, the silver mugs ranged on a tray ready to be filled with mulled ale for supper; and above all, the speckless purity of my particular care the scoured and well swept floor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such was the aspect of out-of-doors affairs, when Mrs. Corney, the matron of the workhouse to which our readers have been already introduced as the birthplace of Oliver Twist, sat herself down before a cheerful fire in her own little room, and glanced, with no small degree of complacency, at a small round table: on which stood a tray of corresponding size, furnished with all necessary materials for the most grateful meal that matrons enjoy.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In fact, after three hours and a half, Pinocchio saw her return with a silver tray on her head.
-- On the tray there was bread, roast chicken, fruit.
-- He wanted to cry, he wanted to give himself up to despair, he wanted to throw away the tray and all that was on it.
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