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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had not long to wait for an answer, and learned that the European was a slave in one of the tribes that roamed the country between the Colorado and the Rio Negro.
-- Tom is a slave to duty and discipline.
-- "President Johnson," cried Paganel, "the successor of the great and good Lincoln, assassinated by a mad fanatic of the slave party.
-- The currents had thrown him out of his habitual track, and this miserable slave of routine was left quite helpless.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He would like to give play to his imagination, and follow the inspiration of his genius, but a soldier is only at ease in the guard-room, and the pen stops half-way, a slave to discipline.
-- She thinks she will be able to make a sort of slave of me all my life; but I shall prepare a little surprise for her.
-- He is really a slave to his opin-ions.'
-- Mother is a noble-minded woman, I know; you try to suggest anything mean to her, and you'll see!But she is such a slave to these miserable creatures!I don't mean old Bielokonski alone.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And man, subservient to interests he has persuaded himself are greater than his own, makes himself a slave to his taskmaster.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This intrepid fellow was a Negro born on the engineer's estate, of a slave father and mother, but to whom Cyrus, who was an Abolitionist from conviction and heart, had long since given his freedom.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He felt that the Natasha of old was no more; that there was only a slave of an unpleasant, dark, hairy man with whom he had nothing in common.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had left his pipe below, and being a slave to tobacco, had meant that I should fetch it; but as soon as I was near enough to speak and not to be overheard, I broke immediately, "Doctor, let me speak.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But everywhere the slave has the right to regain his liberty."
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I smiled at him, and looked pleasantly, and beckoned to him to come still nearer; at length he came close to me; and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and laid his head upon the ground, and taking me by the foot, set my foot upon his head; this, it seems, was in token of swearing to be my slave for ever.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He said he'd be mighty sure to see it, because he'd be a free man the min-ute he seen it, but if he missed it he'd be in a slave country again and no more show for freedom.
-- After all this long journey, and after all we'd done for them scoundrels, here it was all come to nothing, everything all busted up and ruined, because they could have the heart to serve Jim such a trick as that, and make him a slave again all his life, and amongst strangers, too, for forty dirty dollars.
-- Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times bet-ter for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he'd GOT to be a slave, and so I'd better write a let-ter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was.
-- And when we stepped on to the raft I says: 'NOW, old Jim, you're a free man again, and I bet you won't ever be a slave no more.'
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