faithful是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 守信的, 忠实的, 如实的, 可靠的,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:
-- Their faithful Friend and Servant, C. D. December, 1843.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'If you hear in my voice I don't know that it is so, but I hope it is if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it!If you touch, in touching my hair, anything that recalls a beloved head that lay on your breast when you were young and free, weep for it, weep for it!If, when I hint to you of a Home that is before us, where I will be true to you with all my duty and with all my faithful service, I bring back the remembrance of a Home long desolate, while your poor heart pined away, weep for it, weep for it!'
-- He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it bet-ter than the faithful service of the heart; so rendered and so free from any mercenary taint, he had such an exalted respect for it, that in the retributive arrangements made by his own mind we all make such arrangements, more or less he stationed Miss Pross much nearer to the lower An-gels than many ladies immeasurably better got up both by Nature and Art, who had balances at Tellson's.
-- Like you, a voluntary exile from France; like you, driven from it by its distractions, op-pressions, and miseries; like you, striving to live away from it by my own exertions, and trusting in a happier future; I look only to sharing your fortunes, sharing your life and home, and being faithful to you to the death.
-- His high per-sonal popularity, and the clearness of his answers, made a great impression; but, as he proceeded, as he showed that the Accused was his first friend on his release from his long imprisonment; that, the accused had remained in England, always faithful and devoted to his daughter and himself in their exile; that, so far from being in favour with the Aris-406 A tale of two citiestocrat government there, he had actually been tried for his life by it, as the foe of England and friend of the United States as he brought these circumstances into view, with the greatest discretion and with the straightforward force of truth and earnestness, the Jury and the populace became one.
-- After grasping the Doctor's hand, as he stood victorious and proud before him; after grasping the hand of Mr. Lorry, who came panting in breathless from his struggle against the waterspout of the Carmagnole; after kissing little Lucie, who was lifted up to clasp her arms round his neck; and af-ter embracing the ever zealous and faithful Pross who lifted her; he took his wife in his arms, and carried her up to their 409rooms.
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:
-- 'I will send my faithful old minister to the weavers,' said the Emperor at last, after some deliberation, 'he will be best able to see how the cloth looks; for he is a man of sense, and no one can be more suitable for his office than be is.'
-- So the faithful old minister went into the hall, where the knaves were working with all their might, at their empty looms.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "This is one of my most faithful supporters," said Korsunsky, bowing to Anna Arkadyevna, whom he had not yet seen.
-- And in return you will enjoy all the privileges of a faithful wife without fulfilling her duties.
-- The only thing I can say against it is that, when I lost Marie, I said to myself that I would remain faithful to her memory.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was quite ignorant that it is forbidden to Christians to enter certain Indian temples, and that even the faithful must not go in without first leaving their shoes outside the door.
-- He held himself ready to bestride the animal at a moment's notice, should flight become necessary; but he evidently thought that the procession of the faithful would pass without perceiving them amid the thick foliage, in which they were wholly concealed.
-- Kiouni is a brave and faithful beast."
-- What would these divinities think of India, anglicised as it is to-day, with steamers whistling and scudding along the Ganges, frightening the gulls which float upon its surface, the turtles swarming along its banks, and the faithful dwelling upon its borders?
-- She often chatted with Passepartout, who did not fail to perceive the state of the lady's heart; and, being the most faithful of domestics, he never exhausted his eulogies of Phileas Fogg's honesty, generosity, and devotion.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the Great Call sounds, Doctor, and it's time for you to face your reward, will you be satisfied by a big Masonic funeral and tributes from Grateful Patients if you have failed to lay up provision for the kiddies, and faithful wife who has shared your tribulations?
-- It is true that a busy health-department bacteriologist has no right to waste the public time in being curious, but the irresponsible sniffing beagle in Martin drove out the faithful routineer.
-- Chapter 25 Then for a year with each day longer than a sleepless night, yet the whole year speeding without events or seasons or eagerness, Martin was a faithful mechanic in that most competent, most clean and brisk and visionless medical factory, the Rouncefield Clinic.
-- Martin was faithful enough about it, and gave to it almost every morning, but he blasphemed more than usual and he unholily welcomed scientific papers in which lipovaccines were condemned as inferior to ordinary salt solutions.
-- He remarked to Sir Robert that rats and their ever faithful fleas do carry diseases--plague and infectious jaundice and rat-bite fever and possibly leprosy--but these diseases did not and therefore could not exist in St. Hubert, except for leprosy, which was a natural punishment of outlandish Native Races.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was so much swinishness in my soul and honesty too, of a sort, as to tell her straight out that I couldn't be absolutely faithful to her.
-- In fact, I triumphed, while my lady remained 666 Crime and Punishmentfirmly convinced that she was innocent, chaste, and faithful to all her duties and obligations and had succumbed quite by accident.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I cannotclose this Volume more agreeably to myself, than with a hopefulglance towards the time when I shall again put forth my two greenleaves once a month, and with a faithful remembrance of the genialsun and showers that have fallen on these leaves of DavidCopperfield, and made me happy.
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