gentleman是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 绅士, 先生,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:
-- If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
-- At sight of an old gentleman in a Welsh wig, sitting behind such a high desk, that if he had been two inches taller he must have knocked his head against the ceiling, Scrooge cried in great excitement: 'Why, it's old Fezziwig.
-- asked a red-faced gentleman with a pendulous excrescence on the end of his nose, that shook like the gills of a turkey-cock.
-- 'I don't mind going if a lunch is provided,' observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose.
-- It sent a pang across his heart to think how this old gentleman would look upon him when they met; but he knew what path lay straight before him, and he took it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gentleman of the name of Lorry answer straight.'
-- Consequently, another drawer, and two porters, and several maids and the landlady, were all loitering by accident at various points of the road between the Concord and the coffee-room, when a gentleman of sixty, formally dressed in a brown suit of clothes, pretty well worn, but very well kept, with large square cuffs and large flaps to the pockets, passed along on his way to his breakfast.
-- The coffee-room had no other occupant, that forenoon, than the gentleman in brown.
-- She may ask for Mr. Jar-vis Lorry, or she may only ask for a gentleman from Tellson's Bank.
-- Mr. Lorry had been idle a long time, and had just poured out his last glassful of wine with as complete an appearance of satisfaction as is ever to be found in an elderly gentleman of a fresh complexion who has got to the end of a bottle, when a rattling of wheels came up the narrow street, and rumbled into the inn-yard.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was just the same with this gentleman as with the minister; he surveyed the looms on all sides, but could see nothing at all but the empty frames.
-- 'I am a Bachelor in Theologia,' answered the gentleman with a stiff reverence.
-- 'Oh,' exclaimed the clerical gentleman smiling, 'there is much wit in them; besides they are read at court.
-- 'Yes, he is our first printer,' replied the clerical gentleman hastily.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "That gentleman must be a man of great energy," said Grinevitch, when Levin had gone away.
-- "It's very well for you to talk like that; it's very much like that gentleman in Dickens who used to fling all difficult questions over his right shoulder.
-- No one had heard him, and Konstantin, taking off his galoshes, listened to what the gentleman in the jerkin was saying.
-- he said, addressing his brother, and indicating the gentleman in the jerkin: "This is Mr. Kritsky, my friend from Kiev, a very remarkable man.
-- Two gentleman with lighted cigarettes passed by her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer.
-- Finding myself out of place, and hearing that Monsieur Phileas Fogg was the most exact and settled gentleman in the United Kingdom, I have come to monsieur in the hope of living with him a tranquil life, and forgetting even the name of Passepartout."
-- Passepartout, desirous of respecting the gentleman whom he served, ventured a mild remonstrance on such conduct; which, being ill-received, he took his leave.
-- Everything was regulated and foreseen that was to be done from half-past eleven a.m. till midnight, the hour at which the methodical gentleman retired.
-- On the day of the robbery a well-dressed gentleman of polished manners, and with a well-to-do air, had been observed going to and fro in the paying room where the crime was committed.
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