throne是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 御座， 宝座； 王位， 王权，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Jove, the Olympian Lord of Thunder, hied him to the bed in which he always slept; and when he had got on to it he went to sleep, with Juno of the golden throne by his side.
-- The day will surely come when mighty Ilius shall be laid low, with Priam and Priam's people, when the son of Saturn from his high throne shall overshadow them with his awful aegis in pun-ishment of their present treachery.
-- And Hector spoke thus: 'Hear me, Trojans and Achaeans, that I may speak even as I am minded; Jove on his high throne has brought our oaths and covenants to nothing, and foreshadows ill for both of us, till you either take the towers of Troy, or are yourselves vanquished at your ships.
-- Jove then sat down upon his gold-en throne and Olympus reeled beneath him.
-- For Diana of the golden throne was an-gry and did them hurt because Oeneus had not offered her his harvest first-fruits.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France.
-- More than enough of bad roads, bad equipages, and bad horses, he would have en-countered to delay him, though the fallen and unfortunate King of France had been upon his throne in all his glory; but, the changed times were fraught with other obstacles than these.
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：
-- Now which will you have; that about Ivedy-Avedy, or about Humpy-Dumpy, who tumbled downstairs, and yet after all came to the throne and mar-ried the princess?'
-- They could all talk well enough when they were out in the street; but as soon as they came inside the palace gates, and saw the guard richly dressed in silver, and the lackeys in gold on the staircase, and the large illu-minated saloons, then they were abashed; and when they stood before the throne on which the Princess was sitting, all they could do was to repeat the last word they had ut-tered, and to hear it again did not interest her very much.
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：
-- Never minstrel, or by whatever more suitable name David should be known, drew upon his tal-ents in the presence of more insensible auditors; though considering the singleness and sincerity of his motive, it is probable that no bard of profane song ever uttered notes that ascended so near to that throne where all homage and praise is due.
-- Tell them, that the Being we all worship, under different names, will be mindful of their charity; and that the time shall not be distant when we may assemble around His throne without distinction of sex, or rank, or color.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few confined themselves to hints, such as politely inquiring what red-letter day or saint's day the almanack said it was; a few (these were the profound village politicians) argued that it was a slight to the throne and an affront to church and state, and savoured of revolutionary principles, to grant a half-holiday upon any lighter occasion than the birthday of the Monarch; but the majority expressed their displeasure on private grounds and in plain terms, arguing that to put the pupils on this short allowance of learning was nothing but an act of downright robbery and fraud: and one old lady, finding that she could not inflame or irritate the peaceable schoolmaster by talking to him, bounced out of his house and talked at him for half-an-hour outside his own window, to another old lady, saying that of course he would deduct this half-holiday from his weekly charge, or of course he would naturally expect to have an opposition started against him; there was no want of idle chaps in that neighbourhood (here the old lady raised her voice), and some chaps who were too idle even to be schoolmasters, might soon find that there were other chaps put over their heads, and so she would have them take care, and look pretty sharp about them.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the sight of her mother's serene face upturned to the throne of God and His saints and angels,praying for blessings on those whom she loved.
-- Besides, the fat Dutch womanwho is sitting on the throne is a God-fearing soul and she doesn't approve of slavery.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when he went in he saw his wife sitting on a throne of gold and diamonds, with a gold-en crown upon her head; and on each side of her stood six 52 Grimms' Fairy Talesfair maidens, each a head taller than the other.
-- So he went home again; and as he came near he saw his wife Ilsabill sitting on a very lofty throne made of solid gold, with a great crown on her head full two yards high; and on each side of her stood her guards and attendants in a row, each one smaller than the other, from the tallest giant down to a little dwarf no bigger than my finger.
-- Then the fisherman went home, and found Ilsabill sit-ting on a throne that was two miles high.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three kings protested to me, 'that in their whole reigns they never did once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake, or treachery of some minister in whom they confided; neither would they do it if they were to live again:' and they showed, with great strength of rea-son, 'that the royal throne could not be supported without corruption, because that positive, confident, restiff temper, which virtue infused into a man, was a perpetual clog to public business.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The post of honour and the post of shame, the general's station and the drummer's, a peer's statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman's hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitre and the workhouse, the woolsack and the gallows, the throne and the guillotine the travellers to all are on the great high road, but it has wonderful divergencies, and only Time shall show us whither each traveller is bound.
-- The first object that confronted Little Dorrit, entering first, was Blandois of Paris in a great cloak and a furtive slouched hat, standing on a throne platform in a corner, as he had stood on the Great Saint Bernard, when the warning arms seemed to be all pointing up at him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In America, as everyone knows, girls early sign the declaration of independence, and enjoy their freedom with republican zest, but the young matrons usually abdicate with the first heir to the throne and go into a seclusion almost as close as a French nunnery, though by no means as quiet.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He answered no, not yet; and added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
-- And here be it said, that the Greenland whale is an usurper upon the throne of the seas.
-- "Oh, thou dark Hindoo half of nature, who of drowned bones hast builded thy separate throne somewhere in the heart of these unverdured seas; thou art an infidel, thou queen, and too truly speakest to me in the wide-slaughtering Typhoon, and the hushed burial of its after calm.
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