tradesman是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 商人; 手艺人,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
-- said Mr. Cruncher, who all this time had been putting on his clothes, 'if I ain't, what with piety and one blowed thing 77and another, been choused this last week into as bad luck as ever a poor devil of a honest tradesman met with!Young Jerry, dress yourself, my boy, and while I clean my boots keep a eye upon your mother now and then, and if you see any signs of more flopping, give me a call.
-- 217XIV The Honest Tradesman o the eyes of Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher, sitting on his stool Tin Fleet-street with his grisly urchin beside him, a vast number and variety of objects in movement were every day presented.
-- There might be medical doctors at the present hour, a picking up their guineas where a honest tradesman don't pick up his fardens fardens!no, nor yet his half fardens half fardens!
-- no, nor yet his quarter a banking away like smoke at Tell-son's, and a cocking their medical eyes at that tradesman on the sly, a going in and going out to their own carriag-es ah!equally like smoke, if not more so.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'It would be no pleasure to aLondon tradesman to sell anything which was what he pretendedit was.'
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Goriot had brought with him a considerable wardrobe, the gorgeous outfit of a retired tradesman who denies himself nothing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was not necessary to explain everywhere that I had come into a handsome property; but whenever I said anything to that effect, it followed that the officiating tradesman ceased to have his attention diverted through the window by the High Street, and concentrated his mind upon me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The tradesman leaves his counter, and the car-man his waggon; the butcher throws down his tray; the baker his basket; the milkman his pail; the errand-boy his parcels; the school-boy his marbles; the paviour his pickaxe; the child his battledore.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was declared to be in debt to every tradesman in the place, and his intrigues, all honoured with the title of se-duction, had been extended into every tradesman's family.
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