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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a long chamber with a step separating the dais where the family sat from the lower portion reserved for their dependents.
-- The dark panelling glowed like bronze in the golden rays, and it was hard to realize that this was indeed the chamber which had struck such a gloom into our souls upon the evening before.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These consisted of a 'salon,' which became the dining-room when required; a drawing-room, which was only a drawing-room in the morning, and became Gania's study in the evening, and his bedroom at night; and lastly Nina Alexandrovna's and Varvara's bedroom, a small, close chamber which they shared together.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For several min-utes Munro paced the chamber with long and rapid strides, his rigid features working convulsively, and every faculty seemingly absorbed in the musings of his own mind.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cud-dling in the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly pur-chased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This inflammable material was placed in the central chamber at the bottom of a little cavity in the rock, sheltered from all wind and damp.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By a like pleasant fiction his single chamber was always mentioned in a plural number.
-- In this flight of fancy, Mr Swiveller was assisted by a deceptive piece of furniture, in reality a bedstead, but in semblance a bookcase, which occupied a prominent situation in his chamber and seemed to defy suspicion and challenge inquiry.
-- Even the sick chamber seemed to be retained, on the uncertain tenure of Mr Quilp's favour.
-- The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers' eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.
-- At sight of the strange room and its unaccustomed objects she started up in alarm, wondering how she had been moved from the familiar chamber in which she seemed to have fallen asleep last night, and whither she had been conveyed.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER 3 WHILE leading the way upstairs, she recommended that I should hide the candle, and not make a noise; for her master had an odd notion about the chamber she would put me in, and never let anybody lodge there willingly.
-- To my confusion, I discovered the yell was not ideal: hasty footsteps approached my chamber door; somebody pushed it open, with a vigorous hand, and a light glimmered through the squares at the top of the bed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Crawling forth, from day to day, to some green sunny spot, they have had such memories wakened up within them by the sight of the sky, and hill and plain, and glistening water, that a foretaste of heaven itself has soothed their quick decline, and they have sunk into their tombs, as peacefully as the sun whose setting they watched from their lonely chamber window but a few hours before, faded from their dim and feeble sight!The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes.
-- The window of the young lady's chamber was opened now; for she loved to feel the rich summer air stream in, and revive her with its freshness; but there always stood in water, just inside the lattice, one particular little bunch, whic h was made up with great care, every morning.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The streets, the lamps, the lighted chamber set for dining, are for me.
-- To one not inclined to drink, and gifted with a more serious turn of mind, such a bubbling, chattering, glittering chamber must ever seem an anomaly, a strange commentary on nature and life.
-- He folded his gloved hands and saw only the lighted chamber and Carrie's face.
-- She had come upon it as one who stumbles upon a secret passage and, behold, she was in the chamber of diamonds and delight!
-- He moved about in the same chamber with his wife, unmindful of her presence.
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