war是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 战争(状态) ; 冲突vi. 作战,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:
-- Reins and whip and coachman and guard, however, in combina-tion, had read that article of war which forbade a purpose otherwise strongly in favour of the argument, that some brute animals are endued with Reason; and the team had capitulated and returned to their duty.
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:
-- The war of the buccaneers of1490 was so recent that it could not fail being alluded to; the English pirates had, they said, most shamefully taken their ships while in the roadstead; and the Councillor, be-fore whose eyes the Herostratic* event of 1801 still floated vividly, agreed entirely with the others in abusing the ras-cally English.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And they fell to talking of the last war news, and each concealed from the other his perplexity as to the engagement expected next day, since the Turks had been beaten, according to the latest news, at all points.
-- Casting over the subjects of conversation that would be pleasant to Sergey Ivanovitch, and would keep him off the subject of the Servian war and the Slavonic question, at which he had hinted by the allusion to what he had to do in Moscow, Levin began to talk of Sergey Ivanovitch's book.
-- "But who has declared war on the Turks?--Ivan Ivanovitch Ragozov and Countess Lidia Ivanovna, assisted by Madame Stahl?"
-- The prince says that private persons cannot take part in war without the permission of the government."
-- "Oh, my theory's this: war is on one side such a beastly, cruel, and awful thing, that no one man, not to speak of a Christian, can individually take upon himself the responsibility of beginning wars; that can only be done by a government, which is called upon to do this, and is driven inevitably into war.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT TAKES A TOO GREAT INTEREST IN HIS MASTER,AND WHAT COMES OF ITHong Kong is an island which came into the possession of the English by the Treaty of Nankin, after the war of 1842; and the colonising genius of the English has created upon it an important city and an excellent port.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Since the death of his Gottlieb-cult he had unconsciously sought a new passion, and he found it now in Gustaf Sondelius's war on disease.
-- Suddenly, without planning it, forgetting in his admiration for Sondelius and the health war his pride of the laboratory, he was thrown into a research problem.
-- As a hygienist, I war on alcohol.
-- In early summer, two months before the outbreak of the Great War in Europe, Leora went to Wheatsylvania for a fortnight with her family.
-- I'll remember and not do it again!Such a fuss for a war record as insignificant as mine!What happened was: when the war broke out in '14 I was in England, studying under Sherrington.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jugs of water, and watering-pots, were kept in secret places readyto be discharged on the offending boys; sticks were laid in ambushbehind the door; sallies were made at all hours; and incessant war 188prevailed.
-- I found everything in a satisfactory state at the cottage; and wasenabled to gratify my aunt exceedingly by reporting that the tenantinherited her feud, and waged incessant war against donkeys.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He certainly might have heard Mr. Elton speak with more unreserve than she had ever done, and Mr. Elton might not be of an imprudent, inconsiderate disposition as to money matters; he might naturally be rather attentive than oth-erwise to them; but then, Mr. Knightley did not make due allowance for the influence of a strong passion at war with all interested motives.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Peace and war kiss each other at their hours of preparation sickles, scythes, shears, and pruning-hooks, ranking with swords, bayonets, and lances, in their common necessity for point and edge.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Both these ladies, moreover, would be very well to do when the people at the War Office had come to an end of their formalities.
-- "You must put yourself on a war footing," said she.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This noble war in the sky el-evated my spirits; I clasped my hands, and exclaimed aloud, 'William, dear angel!this is thy funeral, this thy dirge!'
-- No; from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and more than all, against him who had formed me and sent me forth to this insupportable mis-ery.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pa talks war morning, noon and night, and all the gentlemen who come tosee him shout about Fort Sumter and States' Rights and Abe Lincoln till I get so bored I could scream!And that's allthe boys talk about, too, that and their old Troop.
-- War was men'sbusiness, not ladies', and they took her attitude as evidence of her femininity.
-- "Miss Pitty told us they hadn't intended announcing it till next year, because Miss Melly hasn't been very well;but with all the war talk going around, everybody in both families thought it would be better to get married soon.
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