carriage是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. (四轮) 马车; (火车) 客车厢,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So Chanticleer began to build a little carriage of nutshells: and when it was finished, Partlet 79jumped into it and sat down, and bid Chanticleer harness himself to it and draw her home.
-- But Chanticleer was no coward, and returned the duck's blows with his sharp spurs so fiercely that she soon began to cry out for mercy; which was only granted her upon condition that she would draw the carriage home for them.
-- Chanticleer observ-ing that they were but thin fellows, and not likely to take up much room, told them they might ride, but made them promise not to dirty the wheels of the carriage in getting in, nor to tread on Partlet's toes.
-- HOW CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET WENT TO VIST MR KORBES nother day, Chanticleer and Partlet wished to ride out Atogether; so Chanticleer built a handsome carriage with four red wheels, and harnessed six mice to it; and then he and Partlet got into the carriage, and away they drove.
-- Soon after came up a millstone, an egg, a duck, and a pin; and Chanticleer gave them all leave to get into the carriage and go with them.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This prince has several machines fixed on wheels, for the carriage of trees and other great weights.
-- About four hours after we began our journey, I awaked by a very ridiculous accident; for the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep; they climbed up into the engine, and advancing very softly to my face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his half-pike a good way up into my left nostril, which tickled my nose like a straw, and made me sneeze violently; whereupon they stole off un-perceived, and it was three weeks before I knew the cause of my waking so suddenly.
-- At the place where the carriage stopped there stood an ancient temple, esteemed to be the largest in the whole kingdom; which, having been polluted some years before 22 Gulliver's Travelsby an unnatural murder, was, according to the zeal of those people, looked upon as profane, and therefore had been applied to common use, and all the ornaments and furni-ture carried away.
-- I tried my canoe in a large pond, near my master's house, and then corrected in it what was amiss; stopping all the chinks with Yahoos' tallow, till I found it staunch, and able to bear me and my freight; and, when it was as complete as I could possibly make it, I had it drawn on a carriage very gently by Yahoos to the sea-side, under the conduct of the sorrel nag and another servant.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In twenty minutes from the moment of our departure we were in Holstein, and our carriage entered the station.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Every day she drove in her beautiful carriage by the cottage-door, and there she saw the tiny woman always alone by herself spinning at her wheel, and she looked at the tiny woman, and the tiny woman looked at her.
-- 'The Princess, after crying a very little for the loss of the tiny woman, dried her eyes and got out of her carriage at the place where she had stopped it before, and went to the cottage and peeped in at the door.
-- She drove into town for the purpose in a one-horse carriage irreverently called at that period of English history, a pill-box.
-- When Arthur told her that she would soon ride in her own carriage through very different scenes, when all the familiar experiences would have vanished away, she looked frightened.
-- Twelve o'clock having just struck, and the carriage being reported ready in the outer court-yard, the brothers proceeded down-stairs arm-in-arm.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I can't have a carriage without its costing ever so much.
-- 'I declare, it really seems like being a fine young lady, to come home from the party in a carriage and sit in my dress-ing gown wit a maid to wait on me,' said Meg, as Jo bound up her foot with arnica and brushed her hair.
-- There's Laurie, looking like a sailor, nice boy!Oh, mercy me!Here's a carriage full of people, a tall lady, a little girl, and two dreadful boys.
-- The rattle of an approaching carriage made them all start and listen.
-- Laurie said, as he put the sisters into the carriage af-ter the joys of the day were over.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Bumble emerged at early morning from the workhouse-gate, and walked with portly carriage and commanding steps, up the High Street.
-- All was so quick and hurried, that he had scarcely time to recollect where he was, or how he came there, when the carriage stopped at the house to which the Jew's steps had been directed on the previous evening.
-- One morning he and Mr. Losberne set out, accordingly, in a little carriage which belonged to Mrs. Maylie.
-- 'That, sir,' cried Oliver, pointing out of the carriage window.
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