crown是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 王冠, 王权, 顶部 vt. 为…加冕, 褒奖, 顶上有, 圆满完成,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:
-- The wagon was put up at the Crown Inn.
-- Here and there was a thick clump of "grass trees," tall bushes ten feet high, like the dwarf palm, quite lost in their crown of long narrow leaves.
-- The path which led up to the intrenchment, lay across fields of "phormium" and a grove of beautiful trees, the "kai-kateas" with persistent leaves and red berries; "dracaenas australis," the "ti-trees" of the natives, whose crown is a graceful counterpart of the cabbage-palm, and "huious," which are used to give a black dye to cloth.
-- His head, adorned with feathers, was encircled with a crown of green leaves.
-- They had a dark crown surmounted by a dark conical shoot.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That's a fitting crown to the rest of the story.
-- I hate you, Gavrila Ardalionovitch, solely (this may seem curious to you, but I repeat) solely because you are the type, and incarnation, and head, and crown of the most impudent, the most self-satisfied, the most vulgar and detestable form of commonplaceness.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jaffers clutched at it, and only helped to pull it off; he was struck in the mouth out of the air, and incontinently threw his truncheon and smote Teddy Henfrey savagely upon the crown of his head.
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:
-- Even the most confident and the stoutest hearts began to think the issue of the contest was becoming doubt-ful; and that abject class was hourly increasing in numbers, who thought they foresaw all the possessions of the English crown in America subdued by their Christian foes, or laid waste by the inroads of their relentless allies.
-- The loyal servants of the British crown had given to one of these forest-fast-nesses the name of William Henry, and to the other that of Fort Edward, calling each after a favorite prince of the reigning family.
-- * The North American warrior caused the hair to be plucked from his whole body; a small tuft was left on the crown of his head, in order that his enemy might avail him-self of it, in wrenching off the scalp in the event of his fall.
-- Know you the distance to a post of the crown called William Henry?'
-- man, keep close!or the hair will be off your crown in the turning of a knife!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I'll not detain you any longer now,' he said, putting a crown into Kit's hand, and looking towards the Notary.
-- Nothing but the respect and obligation I owe to you, sir 'As it was plain that Sampson was bent on a complimentary harangue, unless he received a timely interruption, Mr Quilp politely tapped him on the crown of his head with the little saucepan, and requested that he would be so obliging as to hold his peace.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But if, like Queequeg and me in the bed, the tip of your nose or the crown of your head be slightly chilled, why then, indeed, in the general consciousness you feel most delightfully and unmistakably warm.
-- So that no white sailor seriously contradicted him when he said that if ever Captain Ahab should be tranquilly laid out which might hardly come to pass, so he muttered then, whoever should do that last office for the dead, would find a birth-mark on him from crown to sole.
-- But when, as in the case of Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown of geographical empire encircles an imperial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased before the tremendous centralization.
-- Is, then, the crown too heavy that I wear?
-- this Iron Crown of Lombardy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Noah, whose top waistcoat-button might have been somewhere on a level with the crown of Oliver's head, rubbed his eyes with the inside of his wrists while this commiseration was bestowed upon him, and performed some affecting tears and sniffs.
-- The four sat down, to breakfast, on the coffee, and some hot rolls and ham which the Dodger had brought home in the crown of his hat.
-- Turning down Sun Street and Crown Street, and crossing Finsbury square, Mr. Sikes struck, by way of Chiswell Street, into Barbican: thence into Long Lane, and so into Smithfield; from which latter place arose a tumult of discordant sounds that filled Oliver Twist with amazement.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable, and, to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next assembly with a large party.
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