opera是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 歌剧，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, no!He takes her to his box at the opera at the French theatre of an evening, and the officers and people all look at her and say, 'By Jove, there's the famous Nastasia Philipovna!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Monseigneur had been out at a little supper last night, where the Comedy and the Grand Opera were charmingly represented.
-- So polite and so impress-ible was Monseigneur, that the Comedy and the Grand Opera had far more influence with him in the tiresome ar-ticles of state affairs and state secrets, than the needs of all France.
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：
-- 'You are certainly the first opera dancer.
-- 'I could not be in peace!It is true, I was al-ways a fine starched-up gentleman!I had both a boot-jack and a hair-comb, which I never used!You should have seen me then, you should have seen me when I lay down!I shall never forget MY FIRST LOVE she was a girdle, so fine, so soft, and so charming, she threw herself into a tub of water for my sake!There was also a widow, who became glowing hot, but I left her standing till she got black again; there was also the first opera dancer, she gave me that cut which I now go with, she was so ferocious!My own hair-comb was in love with me, she lost all her teeth from the heart-ache; yes, I have lived to see much of that sort of thing; but I am ex-tremely sorry for the garter I mean the girdle that went into the water-tub.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Excuse me," he added, taking an opera glass out of her hand, and proceeding to scrutinize, over her bare shoulder, the row of boxes facing them.
-- But the position of a man pursuing a married woman, and, regardless of everything, staking his life on drawing her into adultery, has something fine and grand about it, and can never be ridiculous; and so it was with a proud and gay smile under his mustaches that he lowered the opera glass and looked at his cousin.
-- From the opera bouffe.
-- It's exquisite!I know it's disgraceful, but I go to sleep at the opera, and I sit out the opera bouffe to the last minute, and enjoy it.
-- Every eye, every opera glass, was turned on the brightly colored group of riders at the moment they were in line to start.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was intimidated by the luminous cases of mahogany and plate glass, by the opera hats and lustrous mufflers and creamy riding breeches.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She went to the Bouffons or to the Opera with M. de Beauseant and M. d'Ajuda-Pinto; and M. de Beauseant, like a well-bred man of the world, always left his wife and the Portuguese as soon as he had installed them.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She likes to look through the wrong end of the opera glasses, and see the world that way why is it, do you think?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I certainly, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, with a dignity serenely mournful, 'was familiar with the Italian Opera at a very early age.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor little old man knew some pale and vapid little songs, long out of date, about Chloe, and Phyllis, and Strephon being wounded by the son of Venus; and for Mrs Plornish there was no such music at the Opera as the small internal flutterings and chirpings wherein he would discharge himself of these ditties, like a weak, little, broken barrel-organ, ground by a baby.
-- As he was going to do nothing that day (his usual occupation, and one for which he was particularly qualified), he was secured without postponement; being further bound over to accompany the ladies to the Opera in the evening.
-- Descending into the sea again after dinner, and ascending out of it at the Opera staircase, preceded by one of their gondoliers, like an attendant Merman, with a great linen lantern, they entered their box, and Mr Sparkler entered on an evening of agony.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo wouldn't be put into the opera at any price, and he had to give her up with a 'Bless that girl, what a torment she is!'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, he's manager of the Grand Opera House."
-- They went to see "The Mikado" one evening, an opera which was hilariously popular at that time.
-- There was, however, at this time, one theatre, the Chicago Opera House, which was considerably in the public eye, and its manager, David A. Henderson, had a fair local reputation.
-- A noted comic opera comedian was holding forth that week, and the air of distinction and prosperity overawed her.
-- She got the location of several playhouses fixed in her mind--notably the Grand Opera House and McVickar's, both of which were leading in attractions--and then came away.
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