battery是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 电池(组) , 炮兵, 一组,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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'An-other time,' he said, 'you'll know better than to run through a mule battery at night, shouting 'Thieves and fire!'
-- And almost stepping on the chain was another battery mule, calling wildly for 'Bil-ly.'
-- 'The idea of a fourteen-hand mule with your training disgracing the battery before this gentleman!'
-- I lead the battery when it comes to that sort of climbing.'
-- My battery captain called me a Pachydermatous Anachronism the oth-er day.'
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:
-- Two little spotless flags were abroad, the one on a salient angle of the fort, and the other on the advanced battery of the besiegers; emblems of the truth which existed, not only to the acts, but it would seem, also, to the enmity of the combatants.
-- The poor fel-low appeared relieved from a state of great embarrassment; for, pursuing the direction of the voice a task that to him was not much less arduous that it would have been to have gone up in the face of a battery he soon discovered the hidden songster.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These two beady-eyed guinea pigs, chittering in a battery jar, would in two days be stiff and dead.
-- (And Max Gottlieb, glancing at the other guinea pig in the prison of its battery jar, meditated, "Wretched innocent!Why should I murder him, to teach Dummkopfe?
-- While the assistant tagged the pig with a tin disk in its ear and restored it to the battery jar, Gottlieb set down its weight in a note-book, with the time of inoculation and the age of the bacterial culture.
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:
-- The vulgarity!The abjectness!I understand the 'prophet' with his sabre, on his steed: Allah commands and 'trembling' creation must obey!The 'prophet' is right, he is right when he sets a battery across the street and blows up the innocent and the guilty without deigning to explain!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Copperfield,' returned mymother, 'is dead, and if you dare to speak unkindly of him to me-'My poor dear mother, I suppose, had some momentary intention ofcommitting an assault and battery upon my aunt, who could easilyhave settled her with one hand, even if my mother had been in farbetter training for such an encounter than she was that evening.
-- I sought no shelter, therefore, butthe sky; and toiling into Chatham,- which, in that night's aspect, isa mere dream of chalk, and drawbridges, and mastless ships in amuddy river, roofed like Noah's arks, crept, at last, upon a sort ofgrass-grown battery overhanging a lane, where a sentry waswalking to and fro.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER 13Daniel Quilp of Tower Hill, and Sampson Brass of Bevis Marks in the city of London, Gentleman, one of her Majesty's attornies of the Courts of the King's Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster and a solicitor of the High Court of Chancery, slumbered on, unconscious and unsuspicious of any mischance, until a knocking on the street door, often repeated and gradually mounting up from a modest single rap to a perfect battery of knocks, fired in long discharges with a very short interval between, caused the said Daniel Quilp to struggle into a horizontal position, and to stare at the ceiling with a drowsy indifference, betokening that he heard the noise and rather wondered at the same, and couldn't be at the trouble of bestowing any further thought upon the subject.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Eulalie, hidden behind a high-walled garden in a great house on the Battery in Charleston, was no moreentertaining.
-- Within the last year, a series of huge earth redoubts with battery emplacements had been built all around Atlanta, onemile from the center of town.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You bring the lot to me, at that old Battery over yonder.
-- I was soon at the Battery after that, and there was the right man,--hugging himself and limping to and fro, as if he had never all night left off hugging and limping,--waiting for me.
-- The old Battery out on the marshes was our place of study, and a broken slate and a short piece of slate-pencil were our educational implements: to which Joe always added a pipe of tobacco.
-- Yet he would smoke his pipe at the Battery with a far more sagacious air than anywhere else,--even with a learned air,--as if he considered himself to be advancing immensely.
-- Wemmick's house was a little wooden cottage in the midst of plots of garden, and the top of it was cut out and painted like a battery mounted with guns.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A voltaic battery on the newest principle.
-- The battery and wire are carried in a leather bag, which the traveler fastens by a strap to his shoulders.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hannah, quite worn out, lay down on the sofa at the bed's foot and fell fast asleep, Mr. Laurence marched to and fro in the parlor, feeling that he would rather face a rebel battery than Mrs. March's countenance as she entered.
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