giver是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 给予, 付出n. 让步,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As the giver of phage to some thousands of frightened islanders, he had become a dignitary.
-- The more they called him the giver of life, the more he felt himself disgraced and a traitor; and as he looked at Stokes he saw in his regard a pity worse than condemnation.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Grace being said, for those people have their grace as well as we though Queequeg told me that unlike us, who at such times look downwards to our platters, they, on the contrary, copying the ducks, glance upwards to the great Giver of all feasts Grace, I say, being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial ceremony of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and consecrating fingers into the bowl before the blessed beverage circulates.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Polymele, daughter of Phylas the graceful dancer, bore him; the mighty slayer of Argos was enamoured of her as he saw her among the singing women at a dance held in honour of Diana the rushing huntress of the golden arrows; he therefore Mercury, giver of all good went with her into an upper chamber, and lay with her in secret, whereon she bore him a noble son Eudorus, singularly fleet of foot and in fight valiant.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The same lulling sounds acted as a lullaby to my too keen sensations; when I placed my head upon my pillow, sleep crept over me; I felt it as it came and blessed the giver of oblivion.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The feeble fingers were never idle, and one of her pleasures was to make little things for the school children daily passing to and fro, to drop a pair of mittens from her window for a pair of purple hands, a needlebook for some small mother of many dolls, penwipers for young penmen toiling through forests of pothooks, scrapbooks for picture-loving eyes, and all manner of pleasant devices, till the reluctant climbers of the ladder of learning found their way strewn with flowers, as it were, and came to regard the gentle giver as a sort of fairy godmother, who sat above there, and showered down gifts miraculously suited to their tastes and needs.
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