demand是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 要求, 请求, 需要(量) v. 查问,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:
-- Robert had been clever enough to bring down several brace of HILGUEROS, small green and yellow birds, which are excellent eating, and greatly in demand in the Montevideo market.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I think, Dr. Mortimer, you would do wisely if without more ado you would kindly tell me plainly what the exact nature of the problem is in which you demand my assistance.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'What right have you ... by what right do you demand us to sub-mit this matter, about Burdovsky ... to the judgment of your friends?
-- 'Prince,' he cried, 'you are forgetting that if you consent-ed to receive and hear them, it was only because of your kind heart which has no equal, for they had not the least right to demand it, especially as you had placed the mat-ter in the hands of Gavrila Ardalionovitch, which was also extremely kind of you.
-- We present no petition, but a proud and free demand (note it well, we do not beseech, we demand!).
-- When Hippolyte had finished, Ivan Fedorovitch shrugged his shoulders, and his wife looked him angrily up and down, as if to demand the meaning of his movement.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Went in," he gasped, "and began to demand a subscription for that Nurse Fund.
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:
-- I demand your authorities for such an uncharitable assertion (like other advocates of a system, David was not always accurate in his use of terms).
-- 'Let us go to Montcalm, and demand admission: he dare not deny a child the boon.'
-- Munro witnessed this movement with manifest uneasi-ness; nor did he fail to demand an instant explanation.
-- He was strongly tempted to address the young chief, and demand his opinion of their progress; but the calm and dignified demeanor of the native induced him to believe, that, like himself, the other was wholly dependent on the sagacity and intelligence of the seniors of the party.
-- There you must go and demand protection; if they are true Delawares you will be safe.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He repeated his demand in a still more agitated voice.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They had also a variety of different beverages, and so long as they did not demand wine, the most hard to please would have had no reason to complain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The child had not only to endure the accumulated hardships of their destitute condition, but to bear the reproaches of her grandfather, who began to murmur at having been led away from their late abode, and demand that they should return to it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I would ask that it be read," sternly said the prosecutor without looking at the justiciary, sidewise raising himself, and impressing by the tone of his voice that it was his right to demand it, that he would insist on it, and that a refusal would be ground for appeal.
-- The inspector's demand only called forth greater animation, but no one thought of departing.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No man could demand from him an account of his actions; God, if he believed in one his conscience, if he had one were the sole judges to whom he was answerable.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Elinor was very earnest in her application to her mother, relating all that had passed, her suspicions of Willoughby's inconstancy, urging her by every plea of duty and affection to demand from Marianne an account of her real situation with respect to him.
-- Again I demand an explanation of it.
-- The ivory, the gold, and the pearls, all received their appointment, and the gentleman having named the last day on which his existence could be continued without the possession of the toothpick-case, drew on his gloves with leisurely care, and bestowing another glance on the Miss Dashwoods, but such a one as seemed rather to demand than express admiration, walked off with a happy air of real conceit and affected indifference.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her longing for consideration was not sufficiently powerful to move her to demand it.
-- He would have to pay her the money which she would now regularly demand or there would be trouble.
-- Not, however, before her regular demand for her allowance became a grievous thing.
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