tailor是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 裁缝v. 缝制, 剪裁,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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Darzee's Chant (Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi) Singer and tailor am I Doubled the joys that I know Proud of my lilt to the sky, Proud of the house that I sew Over and under, so weave I my music so weave I the house that I sew.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His tailor was trying to get him locked up, and another fellow, too, was threatening to get him locked up.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Peggotty was dressed as usual, in her neat and quiet mourning; butMr. Barkis bloomed in a new blue coat, of which the tailor hadgiven him such good measure, that the cuffs would have renderedgloves unnecessary in the coldest weather, while the collar was sohigh that it pushed his hair up on end on the top of his head.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A tailor from Casterbridge was with him, assisting him in the operation of trying on a new coat that had just been brought home.
-- The tailor walked round and round him, tugged at the waist, pulled the sleeve, pressed out the collar, and for the first time in his experience Boldwood was not bored.
-- Boldwood at last expressed himself nearly satisfied, and paid the bill, the tailor passing out of the door just as Oak came in to report progress for the day.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was now in the hands of the tailor and Melanie was hurrying him to have itready by Christmas morning.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even when I was taken to have a new suit of clothes, the tailor had orders to make them like a kind of Reformatory, and on no account to let me have the free use of my limbs.
-- "I have been thinking, Joe, that when I go down town on Monday, and order my new clothes, I shall tell the tailor that I'll come and put them on there, or that I'll have them sent to Mr. Pumblechook's.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It would have been all over with her, likewise, if, by good fortune, a tailor who was travelling in search of work, had not sat down to rest by the brook.
-- The bean thanked him most pret-tily, but as the tailor used black thread, all beans since then have a black seam.
-- 97THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR ne summer's morning a little tailor was sitting on his Otable by the window; he was in good spirits, and sewed with all his might.
-- The woman came up the three steps to the tailor with her heavy basket, and he made her unpack all the pots for him.
-- The little tailor at last lost all patience, and drew a piece of cloth from the hole under his work-table, and say-ing: 'Wait, and I will give it to you,' struck it mercilessly on them.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Those to whom the king had entrusted me, observing how ill I was clad, ordered a tailor to come next morning, and take measure for a suit of clothes.
-- The cap-tain persuaded me to accept a suit of clothes newly made; but I would not suffer the tailor to take my measure; how-ever, Don Pedro being almost of my size, they fitted me well enough.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As to Pencroft, he had sailed over every sea, a carpenter in the dockyards in Brooklyn, assistant tailor in the vessels of the state, gardener, cultivator, during his holidays, etc., and like all seamen, fit for anything, he knew how to do everything.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Your portmanteau is not packed--my papers are not in order--the precious tailor has not brought my clothes, nor my gaiters--the key of my carpet bag is gone!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had been a tailor in his time, and had kept a phaeton, he said.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A tailor might have secured hints on suit measurements, a shoemaker on proper lasts and colours, a hatter on hats.
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