province是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 省; 领域, 范围, 本分,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "It cuts Australia by the province of Victoria."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The case is not within the province of the law, it must be referred to the tribunal of public opinion; this is what we now do, guaranteeing the truth of all the details which we have related.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The lengthened sheet of the Champlain stretched from the fron-tiers of Canada, deep within the borders of the neighboring province of New York, forming a natural passage across half the distance that the French were compelled to master in order to strike their enemies.
-- 'Tis the merit of the animal!They come from the shores of Narrangansett Bay, in the small province of Providence Plantations, and are celebrated for their hardihood, and the ease of this peculiar movement; though other horses are not unfrequently trained to the same.'
-- But, without entirely losing the meekness of his air, the latter was content to an-swer: 'Though my soul would rejoice to visit the habitations of Christendom once more, my feet would rather follow the tender spirits intrusted to my keeping, even into the idola-trous province of the Jesuits, than take one step backward, while they pined in captivity and sorrow.'
-- Runners were despatched for intelligence in different directions; spies were ordered to approach and feel the en-campment of the Delawares; the warriors were dismissed to their lodges, with an intimation that their services would soon be needed; and the women and children were ordered to retire, with a warning that it was their province to be si-lent.
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