brotherhood是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 兄弟情谊,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Madame Defarge wore no rose in her head, for the great brotherhood of Spies had become, even in one short week, extremely chary of trusting themselves to the saint's mer-cies.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Think of our having a job where we've got nothing to sell but honesty and decency and the brotherhood o' man!"
-- I'm in charge of all the chapels of the Sanctification Brotherhood here.
-- The Special Board coaxed Ira Hinkley out, for the meanest of reasons--in St. Hubert the whites do not greatly esteem the holy ecstasies of Negroes in the Sanctification Brotherhood chapels--but they voted only to "give the matter their consideration," while still men died by the score each day, and in Manchuria as in St. Hubert they prayed for rest from the ancient clawing pain.
-- If it was the intervention of the Lord, as the earnest old Negro who succeeded Ira Hinkley in the chapels of the Sanctification Brotherhood insisted, had not the Lord surely sent him?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr Swiveller, passing through the street in the execution of some Brazen errand, and beholding one of his Glorious Brotherhood intently gazing on a pony, crossed over to give him that fraternal greeting with which Perpetual Grands are, by the very constitution of their office, bound to cheer and encourage their disciples.
-- Mr Swiveller expressed his acknowledgments; and it appearing on further conversation that he was in good health, and that Mr Chuckster was in the like enviable condition, both gentlemen, in compliance with a solemn custom of the ancient Brotherhood to which they belonged, joined in a fragment of the popular duet of 'All's Well,' with a long shake at the end.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Your democracy is an absolute lie your brotherhood of man is a pure falsity, if you apply it further than the mathematical abstraction.
-- We all drank milk first, we all eat bread and meat, we all want to ride in motor-cars therein lies the beginning and the end of the brotherhood of man.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I have not forsworn society since I joined the brotherhood of the brush (the most delightful fellows on the face of the earth), and am glad enough to smell the old fine gunpowder now and then, though it did blow me into mid-air and my present calling.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- While Laurie listlessly watched the procession of priests under their canopies, white-veiled nuns bearing light-ed tapers, and some brotherhood in blue chanting as they walked, Amy watched him, and felt a new sort of shyness steal over her, for he was changed, and she could not find the merry-faced boy she left in the moody-looking man be-side her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By the above definition of what a whale is, I do by no means exclude from the leviathanic brotherhood any sea creature hitherto identified with the whale by the best informed Nantucketers; nor, on the other hand, link with it any fish hitherto authoritatively regarded as alien.
-- The gallant Perseus, a son of Jupiter, was the first whaleman; and to the eternal honor of our calling be it said, that the first whale attacked by our brotherhood was not killed with any sordid intent.
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