station是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 车站; 所, 站, 局; 身份, 地位v. 安置, 驻扎,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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 9CHAPTER II Am BornWHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, orwhether that station will be held by anybody else, these pagesmust show.
-- Yet I held some station at Murdstone and Grinby's too.
-- 'Then she should have kept to her own station in life, father,' saidMinnie, 'and not have given them any hold to talk about her, and 287then they couldn't have done it.'
-- She is engaged to be married to a mostworthy and deserving man in her own station of life.
-- 'Thank you,Master Copperfield!I have risen from my umble station since firstyou used to address me, it is true; but I am umble still.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There can be no doubt of your being a gentleman's daughter, and you must support your claim to that station by every thing within your own power, or there will be plenty of people who would take pleasure in degrad-ing you.'
-- It was to be a whole-length in water-colours, like Mr. John Knight-ley's, and was destined, if she could please herself, to hold a very honourable station over the mantelpiece.
-- Frank Churchill returned to his station by Emma; and as soon as Miss Bates was quiet, she found herself neces-sarily overhearing the discourse of Mrs. Elton and Miss Fairfax, who were standing a little way behind her. He was thoughtful.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was one which many women of her own station in the neighbourhood, and not a few of higher rank, would have been wild to accept and proud to publish.
-- Well, there's too much difference between Miss Everdene's station and your own for this flirtation with her ever to benefit you by ending in marriage.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had often, when at home, thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place and had longed to enter the world and take my station among other human beings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Joe's station and influence were something feebler (if possible) when there was company than when there was none.
-- In what station of life is this man?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In choosing persons for all employments, they have more regard to good morals than to great abilities; for, since government is necessary to mankind, they believe, that the common size of human understanding is fitted to some station or other; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age: but they sup-pose truth, justice, temperance, and the like, to be in every man's power; the practice of which virtues, assisted by ex-perience and a good intention, would qualify any man for the service of his country, except where a course of study is required.
-- It does not appear, from all you have said, how any one perfection is required toward the procurement of any one station among you; much less, that men are en-nobled on account of their virtue; that priests are advanced for their piety or learning; soldiers, for their conduct or valour; judges, for their integrity; senators, for the love of their country; or counsellors for their wisdom.
-- I never presumed to speak, except in answer to a question; and then I did it with inward regret, because it was a loss of so much time for improving myself; but I was infinitely delighted with the station of an humble auditor in such conversations, where nothing passed but what was useful, expressed in the fewest and most significant words; where, as I have already said, the greatest decency was ob-served, without the least degree of ceremony; where no person spoke without being pleased himself, and pleasing his companions; where there was no interruption, tedious-ness, heat, or difference of sentiments.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I haven't always occupied my present station of life.
-- He held no station among the Hands who could make speeches and carry on debates.
-- I walked nine mile to the station this morning, and if I find nobody on the road to give me a lift, I shall walk the nine mile back to-night.
-- 'I have got an appointment with him to meet him in the evening at the station here,' said Tom, 'and I am going to dine with him afterwards, I believe.
-- The evening come, she put on her bonnet and shawl, and went quietly out: having her reasons for hovering in a furtive way about the station by which a passenger would arrive from Yorkshire, and for preferring to peep into it round pillars and corners, and out of ladies' waiting-room windows, to appearing in its precincts openly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER 5 First Lessons in Climbing At Altona, a suburb of Hamburg, is the Chief Station of the Kiel railway, which was to take us to the shores of the Belt.
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:
-- At the station quay they changed to a gondola, giving the man the address.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was the theatre in which his niece became a dancer; he had been a fixture there a long time when she took her poor station in it; and he accepted the task of serving as her escort and guardian, just as he would have accepted an illness, a legacy, a feast, starvation anything but soap.
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