fortune是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 运气; 命运; 财产; 财富,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient indus-try.
-- But before that time we shall be ready with the money; and even though we were not, it would be a bad fortune indeed to find so merciless a creditor in his succes-sor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'But, do not believe,' said Darnay, upon whose ear the mournful voice struck with a reproachful sound, 'that if my fortune were so cast as that, being one day so happy as to make her my wife, I must at any time put any separation between her and you, I could or would breathe a word of what I now say.
-- She will have in me a man al-ready pretty well off, and a rapidly rising man, and a man of some distinction: it is a piece of good fortune for her, but she is worthy of good fortune.
-- 200 A tale of two citiesXII The Fellow of Delicacy r. Stryver having made up his mind to that mag-Mnanimous bestowal of good fortune on the Doctor's daughter, resolved to make her happiness known to her before he left town for the Long Vacation.
-- Your reputation is high, and, as a young man with your fortune to make, you are probably mindful of your interest.
-- By good fortune she had a veil on her bonnet, or she could hardly have gone along the streets without being stopped.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 16 Andersen's Fairy TalesTHE SHOES OF FORTUNE I.
-- Two fairies were they; the younger, it is true, was not Dame Fortune herself, but one of the waiting-maids of her handmaidens who carry about the lesser good things that she distributes; the other looked extremely gloomy it was Care.
-- The messenger of Fortune had only executed a few unimportant commissions, such as saving a new bonnet from a shower of rain, etc.
-- Behold there are certain things in the world to which one ought never to give utterance except with the greatest caution; but doubly careful must one be when we have the Shoes of Fortune on our feet.
-- The Shoes of Fortune had placed him in the most dreadful situation; and, unfortunately, it never occurred to him to wish himself free.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The principal qualities in Stepan Arkadyevitch which had gained him this universal respect in the service consisted, in the first place, of his extreme indulgence for others, founded on a consciousness of his own shortcomings; secondly, of his perfect liberalism--not the liberalism he read of in the papers, but the liberalism that was in his blood, in virtue of which he treated all men perfectly equally and exactly the same, whatever their fortune or calling might be; and thirdly--the most important point--his complete indifference to the business in which he was engaged, in consequence of which he was never carried away, and never made mistakes.
-- It seemed as though some piece of good fortune had come to pass after the doctor had gone.
-- At the time when the elder brother, with a mass of debts, married Princess Varya Tchirkova, the daughter of a Decembrist without any fortune whatever, Alexey had given up to his elder brother almost the whole income from his father's estate, reserving for himself only twenty-five thousand a year from it.
-- Seryozha was too happy, everything was too delightful for him to be able to help sharing with his friend the porter the family good fortune of which he had heard during his walk in the public gardens from Lidia Ivanovna's niece.
-- "Then he occupies such a position in society that he has no need to look for either fortune or position in his wife.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This noble lord, who was fastened to his chair, would have given his fortune to be able to make the tour of the world, if it took ten years; and he bet five thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg.
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVEThe project was a bold one, full of difficulty, perhaps impracticable.
-- Fogg detained at Hong Kong for a week!There would be time for the warrant to arrive, and fortune at last favoured the representative of the law.
-- Instead of sailing directly from England to the United States, like a common villain, he had traversed three quarters of the globe, so as to gain the American continent more surely; and there, after throwing the police off his track, he would quietly enjoy himself with the fortune stolen from the bank.
-- Mr. Fogg was perfectly tranquil; and yet his whole fortune was at this moment at stake.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'And you want to get a fortune all at once?'
-- But now, thank God, I believe I shall be able to send you something more and in fact we may con-gratulate ourselves on our good fortune now, of which I 48 Crime and Punishmenthasten to inform you.
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