order是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 命令; 次序; 整齐; 定货单; 等级v. 定制, 订购,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:
-- She had noticed the inflection in her husband's voice, and knew that it would not be safe to retire to the boudoir; like all women who are compelled to study their husbands' characters in order to have their own way, and whose business it is to know exactly how far they can go without endangering a good understanding, she was very careful to avoid petty collisions in domestic life.
-- de Beauseant would give him her attention; but suddenly she sprang forward, rushed to a window in the gallery, and watched M. d'Ajuda step into his carriage; she listened to the order that he gave, and heard the Swiss repeat it to the coachman: "To M. de Rochefide's house."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it.
-- I remembered only, and it was 186 Frankensteinwith a bitter anguish that I reflected on it, to order that my chemical instruments should be packed to go with me.
-- Sometimes I could not prevail on myself to enter my laboratory for several days, and at other times I toiled day and night in order to com-plete my work.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But rich planters were few in the youngcounty of Clayton, and, in order to muster a full-strength troop, it had been necessary to raise more recruits among thesons of small farmers, hunters in the backwoods, swamp trappers, Crackers and, in a very few cases, even poor whites,if they were above the average of their class.
-- Jeems did not like to jump fences, but he had jumped higher ones than this in order to keep up with his masters.
-- This strategic retreat in good order was not lost on a woman present orobserved by a man.
-- Ellen had wrung her hands and counseled delay, in order that Scarlett might think the matter over at greater length.
-- It was a situation made to order for speculators and profiteers, and men were not lacking to take advantage of it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I have been thinking, Joe, that when I go down town on Monday, and order my new clothes, I shall tell the tailor that I'll come and put them on there, or that I'll have them sent to Mr. Pumblechook's.
-- No more low, wet grounds, no more dikes and sluices, no more of these grazing cattle,--though they seemed, in their dull manner, to wear a more respectful air now, and to face round, in order that they might stare as long as possible at the possessor of such great expectations,--farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness; not for smith's work in general, and for you!I made my exultant way to the old Battery, and, lying down there to consider the question whether Miss Havisham intended me for Estella, fell asleep.
-- Drummle, an old-looking young man of a heavy order of architecture, was whistling.
-- like and order to dogs,--again saw the wicked Noah's Ark lying out on the black water.
-- We ordered something rather special for dinner, with a bottle of something similarly out of the common way, in order that our minds might be fortified for the occasion, and we might come well up to the mark.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Finding everything still, he marched into the kitchen, and groped about till he found a match in order to light a candle; and then, espying the glittering fi-ery eyes of the cat, he mistook them for live coals, and held the match to them to light it.
-- There he was to sit and watch where they went to dance; and, in order that nothing might pass without his hearing it, the door of his chamber was left open.
-- The old woman had only pretended to be so kind; she was in reality a wicked witch, who lay in wait for children, and had only built the little house of bread in order to entice them there.
-- The guest, however, thought no otherwise than that he was to give up one of his ears, and ran as if fire were burning under him, in order to take them both with him.
-- When the peasants heard that, they too wished to enjoy this great profit, and ran home, killed all their cows, and stripped off their skins in order to sell them in the town to the greatest advantage.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As soon as they got into order they divided into two parties, per-formed mock skirmishes, discharged blunt arrows, drew their swords, fled and pursued, attacked and retired, and in short discovered the best military discipline I ever beheld.
-- And it must be confessed, that from the great intercourse of trade and commerce between both realms, from the continual reception of exiles which is mutual among them, and from the custom, in each empire, to send 60 Gulliver's Travelstheir young nobility and richer gentry to the other, in order to polish themselves by seeing the world, and understand-ing men and manners; there are few persons of distinction, or merchants, or seamen, who dwell in the maritime parts, but what can hold conversation in both tongues; as I found some weeks after, when I went to pay my respects to the em-peror of Blefuscu, which, in the midst of great misfortunes, through the malice of my enemies, proved a very happy ad-venture to me, as I shall relate in its proper place.
-- I remember, when I was once interceding with the emperor for a criminal who had wronged his master of a great sum of money, which he had received by order and ran away with; and happening to tell his majesty, by way of extenuation, that it was only a breach of trust, the emperor thought it monstrous in me to offer as a defence the great-est aggravation of the crime; and truly I had little to say in return, farther than the common answer, that different nations had different customs; for, I confess, I was heartily ashamed.
-- 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.
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