slave是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 奴隶, 苦工v. 做苦工, 拼命地干,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:
-- Bestowing a word of promise here and a smile there, a whisper on one happy slave and a wave of the hand on an-other, Monseigneur affably passed through his rooms to the remote region of the Circumference of Truth.
-- Dream-ing, perhaps, of banquets, as the starved usually do, and of ease and rest, as the driven slave and the yoked ox may, its lean inhabitants slept soundly, and were fed and freed.
-- Worse quarters than Defarge's wine-shop, could easily have been found in Paris for a provincial slave of that de-gree.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But he had found a girl--he'd show her to Vronsky--a marvel, exquisite, in the strict Oriental style, "genre of the slave Rebecca, don't you know."
-- "What wife, what slave can be so utterly a slave as I, in my position?"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I do know how to make pipets and agar, but-- And yet some day I want to travel like Sondelius-- "Sondelius!God!If it were he I was working for, instead of Pickerbaugh, I'd slave for him-- "Or does he pull the bunk, too?
-- I demand the right to be free-- "Hell!These free souls that have to slave at being free are just as bad as their Methodist dads.
-- The change whereby Sondelius was turned from Martin's master to his slave was so unconscious, and Sondelius, for all his Pickerbaughian love of sensationalism, cared so little about mastery or credit, that neither of them considered that there had been a change.
-- I've been so clever that I've made myself the slave of Joyce and Holy Holabird."
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:
-- She was a complete slave and went in fear and trembling of her sister, who made her work day and night, and even beat her.
-- In proposing to the object of my passion to elope with me to America or Switzerland, I may have cherished the deepest respect for her and may have thought that I was promoting our mutual happiness!Reason is the slave of passion, you know; why, probably, I was doing more harm to myself than anyone!'
-- Did you suppose I was such a monster, such a reactionary, such a slave driver?
-- I will be your slave 芒聙娄 all my life 芒聙娄 I will wait here.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No matterwhat it was, I, the moonstruck slave of Dora, perambulated roundand round the house and garden for two hours, looking throughcrevices in the palings, getting my chin by dint of violent exertionabout the rusty nails on the top, blowing kisses at the lights in thewindows, and romantically calling on the night, at intervals, toshield my Dora- I don't exactly know what from, I suppose fromfire.
-- If I had been hiswife, I could have been the slave of his caprices for a word of lovea year.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But she has a will not to say a temper, and I shall be a mere slave to her.
-- Bathsheba was in a very peculiar state of mind, which showed how entirely the soul is the slave of the body, the ethereal spirit dependent for its quality upon the tangible flesh and blood.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he ap-peared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.
-- 'Safie related that her mother was a Christian Arab, seized and made a slave by the Turks; recommended by her beauty, she had won the heart of the father of Safie, who married her.
-- But through the whole period during which I was the slave of my crea-ture I allowed myself to be governed by the impulses of the moment; and my present sensations strongly intimated that the fiend would follow me and exempt my family from the danger of his machinations.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He could not bear to see a slave poutingunder a reprimand, ho matter how well deserved, or hear a kitten mewing or a child crying; but he had a horror ofhaving this weakness discovered.
-- He liked the casual grace with whichthey conducted affairs of importance, risking a fortune, a plantation or a slave on the turn of a card and writing offtheir losses with careless good humor and no more ado than when they scattered pennies to pickaninnies.
-- Though Pork's former owner later offered to buy him back at twice his value,Gerald obstinately refused, for the possession of his first slave, and that slave the "best damn valet on the Coast," wasthe first step upward toward his heart's desire, Gerald wanted to be a slave owner and a landed gentleman.
-- It was built by slave labor, a clumsy sprawling building that crowned the rise of ground overlooking the greenincline of pasture land running down to the river; and it pleased Gerald greatly, for, even when new, it wore a look ofmellowed years.
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