president是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 总统, 校长, 会长, 主席,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:
-- But what will M. de Quatre-fages, the President of the Central Commission, say?
-- The former belongs to the English in Canada, New Brunswick, New Scotland, and the United States, under the government of President Johnson."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The president joined in the general outcry.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The libel consisted in an article accusing the president of a stock company of swindling.
-- It seemed, then, that the main point to consider was, whether or not the president was guilty of swindling the stockholders, and what was to be done to stop his swindling.
-- The cause of Selenin's ardor lay in the fact that he knew the president of the stock company to be dishonest in money affairs, while he accidentally learned that Wolf, almost on the eve of the hearing of the case, had attended a sumptuous dinner at the president's house.
-- Thus, in this case, besides the consideration that the complaining president of the stock company was an unclean man, B脙漏 was in favor of affirming the judgment, also because this charge of libel against a journalist was a restriction on the freedom of the press.
-- Skovorodnikoff, who was sitting opposite Wolf, continually gathering with his thick fingers his beard and mustache into his mouth, as soon as B脙漏 was through with his argument, stopped chewing his beard, and, in a loud, rasping voice, said that although the president of the stock company was a villain, he should favor a reversal if there were legal grounds to sustain it, but as there were none, he joined in the opinion of Ivan Semenovitch (B脙漏), and he invariably rejoiced at this shot aimed at Wolf.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So it had come to pass successively, first, that several distinguished ladies had been frightfully shocked; then, that portfolios of his performances had been handed about o' nights, and declared with ecstasy to be perfect Claudes, perfect Cuyps, perfect phaenomena; then, that Lord Decimus had bought his picture, and had asked the President and Council to dinner at a blow, and had said, with his own magnificent gravity, 'Do you know, there appears to me to be really immense merit in that work?'
-- He was Chairman of this, Trustee of that, President of the other.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On rushing in a body to the cellar, we discovered our beloved President prostrate upon the floor, having tripped and fallen while getting wood for domestic purposes.
-- As the President finished reading the paper (which I beg leave to assure my readers is a bona fide copy of one written by bona fide girls once upon a time), a round of applause fol-lowed, and then Mr. Snodgrass rose to make a proposition.
-- President and gentlemen,' he began, assuming a parliamentary attitude and tone, 'I wish to propose the ad-mission of a new member one who highly deserves the honor, would be deeply grateful for it, and would add im-mensely to the spirit of the club, the literary value of the paper, and be no end jolly and nice.
-- President and ladies I beg pardon, gentlemen allow me to introduce myself as Sam Weller, the very humble servant of the club.'
-- added Winkle and Tupman, while the President bowed benignly.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
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