雅思高频词汇【slave】解析

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发布时间:2021-12-28 13:01:12

 

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。

 

玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- From the avenue of cedars to the row of whitecabins in the slave quarters, there was an air of solidness, of stability and permanence about Tara, and whenever Geraldgalloped around the bend in the road and saw his own roof rising through green branches, his heart swelled with prideas though each sight of it were the first sight.

 

查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- "Perhaps if I warn't a blacksmith's wife, and (what's the same thing) a slave with her apron never off, I should have been to hear the Carols," said Mrs. Joe.

-- And couldn't Uncle Pumblechook, being always considerate and thoughtful for us--though you may not think it, Joseph," in a tone of the deepest reproach, as if he were the most callous of nephews, "then mention this boy, standing Prancing here"--which I solemnly declare I was not doing--"that I have for ever been a willing slave to?"

-- It was ten o'clock at night before we ventured to creep in again, and then she asked Joe why he hadn't married a Negress Slave at once?

 

查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- Now, would you believe it, that although they have put this mark upon him, he is such a slave to them still, that he's afraid to open his lips about them?'

-- There never was a slave at once so devoted and ill-used by his mistress.

 

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:

-- 'I hope at least I haven't a slave nature,' said Hilda.

-- 'But perhaps you have!Perhaps you are a slave to your own idea of yourself.'

-- 'At least I'm not a slave to somebody else's idea of me: and the somebody else a servant of my husband's,' she retorted at last, in crude anger.

 

查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- This is the way in which she is doomed to be a constant slave to them that are not worthy that a constant slave she unto them should be.

-- You can be, again, a foil to his pretty daughter, a slave to her pleasant wilfulness, and a toy in the house showing the goodness of the family.

-- But I'll make a slave of him.'

-- But your slave is politic.

 

路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- Meg cheerfully blackened and burned her white hands cooking delicate messes for 'the dear', while Amy, a loyal slave of the ring, celebrated her return by giving away as many of her treasures as she could prevail on her sisters to accept.

-- Dirty little boots stood drying before the fire, and traces of the dearly beloved boys, for whom he makes a slave of himself, were to be seen all over the room.

-- Mamma was an abject slave to their caprices, but Papa was not so easily subjugated, and occasionally afflicted his tender spouse by an attempt at paternal discipline with his obstreperous son.

-- You have made a slave of yourself long enough.

-- Of course, Demi tyrannized over Daisy, and gal-lantly defended her from every other aggressor, while Daisy made a galley slave of herself, and adored her brother as the one perfect being in the world.

 

赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- On, on we flew; and our offing gained, the Moss did homage to the blast; ducked and dived her bows as a slave before the Sultan.

-- In a pirate, man-of-war, or slave ship, when the captain is rowed anywhere in his boat, he always sits in the stern sheets on a comfortable, sometimes cushioned seat there, and often steers himself with a pretty little milliner's tiller decorated with gay cords and ribbons.

-- Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them; and though, while the valiant butchers over the deck-table are thus cannibally carving each other's live meat with carving-knives all gilded and tasselled, the sharks, also, with their jewel-hilted mouths, are quarrelsomely carving away under the table at the dead meat; and though, were you to turn the whole affair upside down, it would still be pretty much the same thing, that is to say, a shocking sharkish business enough for all parties; and though sharks also are the invariable outriders of all slave ships crossing the Atlantic, systematically trotting alongside, to be handy in case a parcel is to be carried anywhere, or a dead slave to be decently buried; and though one or two other like instances might be set down, touching the set terms, places, and occasions, when sharks do most socially congregate, and most hilariously feast; yet is there no conceivable time or occasion when you will find them in such countless numbers, and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm whale, moored by night to a whaleship at sea.

 

简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- That he was really fond of Jane, she doubted no more than she had ever done; and much as she had always been disposed to like him, she could not think without anger, hardly without contempt, on that easiness of temper, that want of proper resolution, which now made him the slave of his designing friends, and led him to sacrifice of his own happiness to the caprice of their inclination.

-- Your mother must have been quite a slave to your education.'

 

丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- She sailed with what we call a shoulder-of-mutton sail; and the boom jibed over the top of the cabin, which lay very snug and low, and had in it room for him to lie, with a slave or two, and a table to eat on, with some small lockers to put in some bottles of such liquor as he thought fit to drink; and his bread, rice, and coffee.

 

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