passage是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 通过, 经过; 通路, 走廊; (一) 段落, (一) 节,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《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She locked it after admitting me, as she had done before, and again preceded me into the dark passage where her candle stood.
-- The passage was a long one, and seemed to pervade the whole square basement of the Manor House.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It would not be proper, for some reasons, to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas; let it suffice to inform him, that in our passage from thence to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the north-west of Van Diemen's Land.
-- The carpenter came, and in a few minutes sawed a passage about four feet square, then let down a small ladder, upon which I mounted, and thence was taken into the ship in a very weak condition.
-- That he dis-covered two staples upon one side, which was all of boards, without any passage for light.
-- For if, in its perihelion, it should approach within a certain degree of the sun (as by their calculations they have reason to dread) it will receive a degree of heat ten thousand times more intense than that of red hot glowing iron, and in its absence from the sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen miles long, through which, if the earth should pass at the distance of one hundred thousand miles from the nucleus, or main body of the comet, it must in its passage be set on fire, and reduced to ashes: that the sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with the destruction of this earth, and of all the planets that receive their light from it.
-- I went into another room, where the walls and ceiling were all hung round with cobwebs, except a narrow passage for the artist to go in and out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A secret sense of having failed and been ridiculous a dread of what other fellows who went in for similar sorts of things, would say at his expense if they knew it so oppressed him, that what was about the very best passage in his life was the one of all others he would not have owned to on any account, and the only one that made him ashamed of himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We were more than an hour in crossing the fjord; but at length the passage was concluded without accident.
-- A long, narrow, gloomy passage led into the interior of this habitation, made from beams roughly squared by the ax.
-- This passage gave ingress to every room.
-- After the basaltic eruption was appeased and set at rest, the volcano, the force of which increased with that of the extinct craters, gave free passage to the fiery overflow of lava, and to the mass of cinders and pumice stone, now scattered over the sides of the mountain, like disheveled hair on the shoulders of a Bacchante.
-- The stream of lava flowing from the bowels of the earth in 1219 had forced itself a passage through the tunnel.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Thanks, then, for the help, Mellors,' said Clifford casu-ally, as he began to wheel down the passage to the servants' quarters.
-- Mrs Bolton helped Clifford to bed at night, and slept across the passage from his room, and came if he rang for her in the night.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pet had to translate this passage to Mr Meagles, who never by any accident acquired any knowledge whatever of the language of any country into which he travelled.
-- Presently the rain began to fall in slanting lines between him and those houses, and people began to collect under cover of the public passage opposite, and to look out hopelessly at the sky as the rain dropped thicker and faster.
-- Yet it was not a common passage through common rain, and mire, and noise, to Clennam, having this little, slender, careful creature on his arm.
-- For Mr Tite Barnacle, Mr Arthur Clennam made his fifth inquiry one day at the Circumlocution Office; having on previous occasions awaited that gentleman successively in a hall, a glass case, a waiting room, and a fire-proof passage where the Department seemed to keep its wind.
-- Arthur Clennam put his forms in his pocket gloomily enough, and went his way down the long stone passage and the long stone staircase.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- True enough, thought I, as this passage occurred to my mind old black-letter, thou reasonest well.
-- Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.
-- 'I seek a passage in this ship to Tarshish; how soon sail ye, sir?'
-- 'I'll sail with ye,' he says, 'the passage money how much is that? I'll pay now.'
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