messenger是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 送信者， 使者， 传令兵，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：
-- Look on me as a messenger of providence, and let us drop the subject."
-- "Yes," replied John Mangles, "if our messenger can get across the Snowy when we cannot."
-- All eyes were turned on the quartermaster, who said, with the air of a man who knew what he was about: "The messenger will not cross the river."
-- Allow the DUNCAN two days more to get to the bay and twenty hours to get back to the camp, and in a week the messenger can be back with the entire crew of the vessel."
-- "We must not think of sending another messenger to Melbourne," said he.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The messenger sat all this time with the beautiful young lady, and as nobody came with the salad and she longed to taste it, she said, 'I don't know where the salad can be.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- '5th, If an express requires extraordinary despatch, the man- mountain shall be obliged to carry, in his pocket, the messenger and horse a six days journey, once in every moon, and return the said messenger back (if so required) safe to our imperial presence.
-- A messenger was despatched half a day's journey before us, to give the king notice of my approach, and to desire, 'that his majesty would please to appoint a day and hour, when it would by his gracious plea-sure that I might have the honour to lick the dust before his footstool.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She dismissed the messenger to his own devices, and rode away to her old home.
-- 'Tom Gradgrind,' replied Bounderby, knocking the flat of his hand several times with great vehemence on the table, 'I speak of a very special messenger that has come to me, in reference to Louisa.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shall he have the pleasure of directing the messenger to ask if there are any letters for you?'
-- So he went back to the Circumlocution Office, and once more sent up his card to Barnacle junior by a messenger who took it very ill indeed that he should come back again, and who was eating mashed potatoes and gravy behind a partition by the hall fire.
-- Arthur Clennam, who now felt that he had devoted himself to the storming of the Circumlocution Office, and must go through with it, accompanied the messenger to another floor of the building, where that functionary pointed out Mr Wobbler's room.
-- A bravo waiting for his prey, a distinguished noble waiting to save his country, the common enemy waiting to do somebody a bad turn, an angelic messenger waiting to do somebody a good turn whatever you think he looks most like!'
-- The messenger hurried before him, along a grove of little rooms, and turning into one at the end of the grove, looked round the door.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bidding the messenger walk fast, and not be all night hobbling up the stairs, she followed her from the room with a very ill grace, scolding all the way.
-- BUT IS A SHORT ONE, AND MAY BE FOUND OF IMPORTANCE IN THIS HISTORY It was no unfit messenger of death, who had disturbed the quiet of the matron's room.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was lower and quicker than ever!and Marianne, still talking wildly of mama, her alarm increased so rapidly, as to determine her on sending instantly for Mr. Harris, and despatching a messenger to Barton for her mother.
-- Her fears, he had no courage, no confidence to attempt the removal of: he listened to them in silent despondence; but her difficulties were instantly obviated, for with a readiness that seemed to speak the occasion, and the service pre-arranged in his mind, he offered himself as the messenger who should fetch Mrs. Dashwood.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A telegraph messenger in blue dashed past her and up the few steps that led to the entrance and disappeared.
-- Answer by special messenger when you get this, and, darling, I must see you.
-- The audience had been slightly diverted by a conversation between the professional actor and a character called Snorky, impersonated by a short little American, who really developed some humour as a half-crazed, one-armed soldier, turned messenger for a living.
-- At one-thirty he went to Rector's for lunch, and when he returned a messenger was waiting for him.
-- He thought upon it for a half-hour, not contemplating a messenger or a cab direct to the house, owing to the exposure of it, but finding that time was slipping away to no purpose, he wrote the letter and then began to think again.
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