parliament是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 国会, 议会，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If she read that the heroine of the novel was nursing a sick man, she longed to move with noiseless steps about the room of a sick man; if she read of a member of Parliament making a speech, she longed to be delivering the speech; if she read of how Lady Mary had ridden after the hounds, and had provoked her sister-in-law, and had surprised everyone by her boldness, she too wished to be doing the same.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Special Board met in Parliament House, all of them trying to look not like their simple and domestic selves but like judges.
-- As they stood before Parliament House, a small motor possessing everything but comfort and power staggered up to them, and from it vaulted a man lean as Gottlieb and English as Inchcape Jones.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was because the Member of Parliament found that he could not leave the House that I had been invited.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember acertain luscious roll he gave to such phrases as "The people'srepresentatives in Parliament assembled,' 'Your petitionerstherefore humbly approach your honourable house,' 'His graciousMajesty's unfortunate subjects,' as if the words were somethingreal in his mouth, and delicious to taste; Mr. Micawber,meanwhile, listening with a little of an author's vanity, andcontemplating (not severely) the spikes on the opposite wall.
-- I should like to see such a Parliament anywhere else!My aunt andMr. Dick represented the Government or the Opposition (as thecase might be), and Traddles, with the assistance of Enfield'sSpeaker or a volume of parliamentary orations, thunderedastonishing invectives against them.
-- I am in high repute for myaccomplishment in all pertaining to the art, and am joined witheleven others in reporting the debates in Parliament for a morningnewspaper.
-- 'Withrespect to the pecuniary assistance enabling us to launch our frailcanoe on the ocean of enterprise, I have reconsidered thatimportant business point; and would beg to propose my notes-of-hand- drawn, it is needless to stipulate, on stamps of the amountsrespectively required by the various Acts of Parliament applying tosuch securities- at eighteen, twenty-four and thirty months.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This city had remained faithful to him, after the whole nation had forsaken his cause to join the standard of Parliament and liberty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, Pip," said Joe, "be it so or be it son't, you must be a common scholar afore you can be a oncommon one, I should hope!The king upon his throne, with his crown upon his ed, can't sit and write his acts of Parliament in print, without having begun, when he were a unpromoted Prince, with the alphabet.--Ah!"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 158 Gulliver's Travels That the other part of the parliament consisted of an assembly called the House of Commons, who were all prin-cipal gentlemen, freely picked and culled out by the people themselves, for their great abilities and love of their country, to represent the wisdom of the whole nation.
-- [2] An act of parliament has been since passed by which some breaches of trust have been made capital.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor was it merely the stranger who noticed this, because there was a native organization in Coketown itself, whose members were to be heard of in the House of Commons every session, indignantly petitioning for acts of parliament that should make these people religious by main force.
-- 'Why, you'd have to go to Doctors' Commons with a suit, and you'd have to go to a court of Common Law with a suit, and you'd have to go to the House of Lords with a suit, and you'd have to get an Act of Parliament to enable you to marry again, and it would cost you (if it was a case of very plain sailing), I suppose from a thousand to fifteen hundred pound,' said Mr. Bounderby.
-- Time hustled him into a little noisy and rather dirty machinery, in a by-comer, and made him Member of Parliament for Coketown: one of the respected members for ounce weights and measures, one of the representatives of the multiplication table, one of the deaf honourable gentlemen, dumb honourable gentlemen, blind honourable gentlemen, lame honourable gentlemen, dead honourable gentlemen, to every other consideration.
-- 'Here's a gentleman from London present,' Mr. Bounderby made a backhanded point at Mr. James Harthouse with his thumb, 'a Parliament gentleman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered half an hour before the lighting of the match, nobody would have been justified in saving the parliament until there had been half a score of boards, half a bushel of minutes, several sacks of official memoranda, and a family-vault full of ungrammatical correspondence, on the part of the Circumlocution Office.
-- It is true that the debates of both Houses of Parliament the whole session through, uniformly tended to the protracted deliberation, How not to do it.
-- When that admirable Department got into trouble, and was, by some infuriated members of Parliament whom the smaller Barnacles almost suspected of labouring under diabolic possession, attacked on the merits of no individual case, but as an Institution wholly abominable and Bedlamite; then the noble or right honourable Barnacle who represented it in the House, would smite that member and cleave him asunder, with a statement of the quantity of business (for the prevention of business) done by the Circumlocution Office.
-- He has been in Parliament some time, you know,' returned the engaging young Barnacle.
-- 'True,' said Bar, with his light-comedy laugh for special jury-men, which was a very different thing from his low-comedy laugh for comic tradesmen on common juries: 'he has been in Parliament for some time.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed the great Black Parliament sitting in Tophet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The sin and wickedness of the lower orders in this porochial district is frightful!If Parliament don't take their abominable courses under consideration, this country's ruined, and the character of the peasantry gone for ever!'
-- But of course they will get you into parliament at the election before Christmas, and these sudden shiftings and changes are no bad preparation for political life.
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