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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "This gentleman is M. Eugene de Rastignac, one of my cousins," said the Vicomtesse.
-- The Duchess' expression grew colder, she did not like the flippant tone of these remarks, and showed that she considered them to be in bad taste by turning to the Vicomtesse with--"This gentleman has only just come----" Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Kirwin is a magistrate, and you are to give an account of the death of a gentleman who was found murdered here last night.'
-- 'For that matter,' replied the old woman, 'if you mean about the gentleman you murdered, I believe that it were better for you if you were dead, for I fancy it will go hard with you!However, that's none of my business; I am sent to nurse you and get you well; I do my duty with a safe con-science; it were well if everybody did the same.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And raisinggood cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one's liquorlike a gentleman were the things that mattered.
-- You know she said I was going to marry a gentleman with jet-black hairand a long black mustache, and I don't like black-haired gentlemen."
-- Scarlett knew these hurriedpreenings were being made with an eye toward meeting his wife with the appearance of a gentleman who had riddensedately home from a call on a neighbor.
-- He'd be too much of a gentleman not tomarry me.
-- It was two o'clock and the sun was warm overhead, butIndia, wearied with the three-day preparations for the barbecue, was only too glad to remain sitting beneath the arbor,shouting remarks to a deaf old gentleman from Fayetteville.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, the Hulks has got its gentleman again, through me.
-- "And will the other gentleman originate a sentiment."
-- "This other gentleman," observed Joe, by way of introducing Mr. Wopsle, "is a gentleman that you would like to hear give it out.
-- We went on our way upstairs after this episode; and, as we were going up, we met a gentleman groping his way down.
-- If only Estella had come to be a spectator of our proceedings, I should have felt sufficiently discontented; but as she brought with her the three ladies and the gentleman whom I had seen below, I didn't know what to do.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If it were a pig now like that fat gentleman you are driving along at his ease one could do something with it; it would at any rate make sausages.'
-- The second day she began with all the comical names she could hear of, BANDY-LEGS, HUNCHBACK, CROOK- 149SHANKS, and so on; but the little gentleman still said to every one of them, 'Madam, that is not my name.'
-- Mrs Fox asked: 'Has the gentleman red stockings on, and has he a pointed mouth?'
-- Then Mrs Fox said: 'Has the gentleman red stockings on, and has a little pointed mouth?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called 'A Voyage round the world.'
-- This gentleman treated me with kindness, and desired I would let him know what place I came from last, and whither I was bound; which I did in a few words, but he thought I was raving, and that the dan-gers I underwent had disturbed my head; whereupon I took my black cattle and sheep out of my pocket, which, after great astonishment, clearly convinced him of my veracity.
-- He then desired to know, 'What arts were practised in electing those whom I called commoners: whether a strang-er, with a strong purse, might not influence the vulgar voters to choose him before their own landlord, or the most con-siderable gentleman in the neighbourhood?
-- A gentleman of distinc-tion said to me, 'that since the ships bound for Luggnagg could not be ready in less than a month, it might be no dis-agreeable amusement for me to take a trip to the little island of Glubbdubdrib, about five leagues off to the south-west.'
-- The gentleman to whom I addressed my discourse, be-cause (as I have already observed) he spoke the language of Balnibarbi, said to me, with a sort of a smile which usually arises from pity to the ignorant, 'that he was glad of any oc-casion to keep me among them, and desired my permission to explain to the company what I had spoke.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The third gentleman now stepped forth.
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