chamber是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 房间; 议院; 贸易团体; 弹膛,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As he threw his head back in the chair, his glance happened to rest upon a bell, a disused bell, that hung in the room, and communi-cated for some purpose now forgotten with a chamber in the highest story of the building.
-- Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Climb-ing to a high chamber in a well of houses, he threw himself down in his clothes on a neglected bed, and its pillow was wet with wasted tears.
-- Her darling was a pleasant sight too, embracing her and thank-ing her, and protesting against her taking so much trouble for her which last she only dared to do playfully, or Miss Pross, sorely hurt, would have retired to her own chamber and cried.
-- Good repose!Light Monsieur my nephew to his chamber there! And burn Monsieur my nephew in his bed, if you will,' he added to himself, before he rang his little bell again, and summoned his valet to his own bedroom.
-- The list was 401read, in the vaulted chamber where Darnay had seen the associated prisoners on the night of his arrival.
-- I was conducted to this chamber straight, the cries growing louder as we ascended the stairs, and I found a patient in a high fever of the brain, lying on a bed.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And then they entered a chamber where the walls were covered with hog's leather, and printed with gold flowers.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That room was not the smart guest chamber Vronsky had suggested, but the one of which Anna had said that Dolly would excuse it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was the twin of the doleful chamber of a German grocer whom he had seen during a consultation a month ago.
-- He had spoken at the Toledo Chamber of Commerce Weekly Luncheon on "More Health--More Bank Clearings."
-- II Between Pickerbaugh and Irving Watters, Martin was drafted into many of the associations, clubs, lodges, and "causes" with which Nautilus foamed; into the Chamber of Commerce, the Moccasin Ski and Hiking Club, the Elks' Club, the Odd Fellows, and the Evangeline County Medical society.
-- If an aggressive, wide-awake, live-wire, and go-ahead church or chamber of commerce or charity desires to improve itself, which means to get more money, it calls in those few energetic spirits who run any city, and proclaims a Week.
-- To Martin, he spoke of Pasteur, George Washington, Victor Vaughan, and Edison as his masters, but in asking the business men of Nautilus--the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the association of wholesalers--for their divine approval of more funds for his department, he made it clear that they were his masters and lords of all the land, and fatly, behind cigars, they accepted their kinghood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ieven walk, on two or three occasions, in a sickly, spoony manner,round and round the house after the family are gone to bed,wondering which is the eldest Miss Larkins's chamber (andpitching, I dare say now, on Mr. Larkins's instead); wishing that afire would burst out; that the assembled crowd would standappalled; that I, dashing through them with a ladder, might rear itagainst her win- dow, save her in my arms, go back for somethingshe had left behind, and perish in the flames.
-- She murmured, however, even in her reception of me, thatshe was out of her own chamber because its aspect was unsuited toher infirmity; and with her stately look repelled the least suspicionof the truth.
-- Thewindows of the chamber where he lay, I darkened last.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was in the adjoining chamber while she still spoke, and opening the casement there, immediately called Mr. Knightley's attention, and every syllable of their conversa-tion was as distinctly heard by the others, as if it had passed within the same apartment.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- inquired Liddy, at a later hour the same evening, standing by the door with a chamber candlestick in her hand and addressing Bathsheba, who sat cheerless and alone in the large parlour beside the first fire of the season.
-- "A sort of Alonzo the Brave; and when I go in the guests will sit in silence and fear, and all laughter and pleasure will be hushed, and the lights in the chamber burn blue, and the worms Ugh, horrible! Ring for some more brandy, Pennyways, I felt an awful shudder just then!Well, what is there besides?
-- Looking into the chamber of death she had vacated they saw by the light of the candles which were on the drawers a tall straight shape lying at the further end of the bedroom, wrapped in white.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Stifled laughter from the ante- chamber added to his confusion.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We entered the gloomy prison chamber and beheld Jus-tine sitting on some straw at the farther end; her hands were manacled, and her head rested on her knees.
-- Sometimes they were the expressive eyes of Henry, languishing in death, the dark orbs nearly cov-ered by the lids and the long black lashes that fringed them; sometimes it was the watery, clouded eyes of the monster, as I first saw them in my chamber at Ingolstadt.
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