stock是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 存货, 供给, 股票 v. 供应,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《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Monsieur Rigaud arose, lighted a cigarette, put the rest of his stock into a breast-pocket, and stretched himself out at full length upon the bench.
-- She thinks of nothing but herself, she thinks no more of me than if I was a stock and a stone!'
-- A piece of red cloth with which that phantom had been stiffened in its lifetime was now laid bare, and poked itself up, at the back of the old man's neck, into a confusion of grey hair and rusty stock and buckle which altogether nearly poked his hat off.
-- The gentleman with the gun-barrel, considering it, on inspection, in a satisfactory state, referred it to the other; receiving confirmation of his views, he fitted it into its place in the case before him, and took out the stock and polished that, softly whistling.
-- At first he remained stock still; then hurried after her.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Having found the place with some diffi-culty, she went into the doorway, looked up the dirty stairs, and after standing stock still a minute, suddenly dived into the street and walked away as rapidly as she came.
-- I merely meant you to be properly dignified and composed, and you made yourself a perfect stock and stone.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As for the book-binder's whale winding like a vine-stalk round the stock of a descending anchor as stamped and gilded on the backs and title-pages of many books both old and new that is a very picturesque but purely fabulous creature, imitated, I take it, from the like figures on antique vases.
-- So strongly and metaphysically did I conceive of my situation then, that while earnestly watching his motions, I seemed distinctly to perceive that my own individuality was now merged in a joint stock company of two; that my free will had received a mortal wound; and that another's mistake or misfortune might plunge innocent me into unmerited disaster and death.
-- So that for an hour or more, a thousand fathoms in the sea, he carries a surplus stock of vitality in him, just as the camel crossing the waterless desert carries a surplus supply of drink for future use in its four supplementary stomachs.
-- of stock fish.
-- He then called for his harpoon, had the wooden stock drawn from it, and then had the iron part placed in the coffin along with one of the paddles of his boat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were a good many small shops; but the only stock in trade appeared to be heaps of children, who, even at that time of night, were crawling in and out at the doors, or screaming from the inside.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The generous treatment the captain gave me I can nev-er enough remember: he would take nothing of me for my passage, gave me twenty ducats for the leopard's skin, and forty for the lion's skin, which I had in my boat, and caused everything I had in the ship to be punctually delivered to me; and what I was willing to sell he bought of me, such as the case of bottles, two of my guns, and a piece of the lump of beeswax - for I had made candles of the rest: in a word, I made about two hundred and twenty pieces of eight of all my cargo; and with this stock I went on shore in the Bra-zils.
-- To this purpose, getting a kind of letter of naturalisation, I purchased as much land that was uncured as my money would reach, and formed a plan for my plantation and settlement; such a one as might be suitable to the stock which I proposed to myself to re-ceive from England.
-- My stock was but low, as well as his; and we rather planted for food than anything else, for about two years.
-- I was in some degree settled in my measures for carry-ing on the plantation before my kind friend, the captain of the ship that took me up at sea, went back - for the ship remained there, in providing his lading and preparing for his voyage, nearly three months - when telling him what little stock I had left behind me in London, he gave me this friendly and sincere advice:- 'Seignior Inglese,' says he (for so he always called me), 'if you will give me letters, and a procuration in form to me, with orders to the person who has your money in London to send your effects to Lisbon, to such persons as I shall direct, and in such goods as are proper for this country, I will bring you the produce of them, God willing, at my return; but, since human affairs are all subject to changes and disasters, I would have you give orders but for one hundred pounds sterling, which, you say, is half your stock, and let the hazard be run for the first; so that, if it come safe, you may order the rest the same way, and, if it miscarry, you may have the other half to have re-course to for your supply.'
-- This was a fair proposal, it must be confessed, had it been made to any one that had not had a settlement and a plan-tation of his own to look after, which was in a fair way of coming to be very considerable, and with a good stock upon it; but for me, that was thus entered and established, and had nothing to do but to go on as I had begun, for three or four years more, and to have sent for the other hundred pounds from England; and who in that time, and with that little addition, could scarce have failed of being worth three or four thousand pounds sterling, and that increasing too - for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A valuable legacy indeed!And yet some of the plate would have been a very pleasant addition to our own stock here."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'm going to study stock at our place and get new samples.
-- It was a portion of the stock room which gave no idea of the general character of the place, and Carrie could form no opinion of the nature of the work.
-- His grace, tact, and ornate appearance gave the place an air which was most essential, while at the same time his long experience made him a most excellent judge of its stock necessities.
-- He stopped stock still, his frayed trousers soaking in the slush, and peered foolishly in.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.
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