captive是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 俘虏, 迷恋者; 被俘虏的, 被拴住的,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《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was haunted by apprehensions of being led captive to some gloomy place where he would be chained and scourged, and worse than all, where Nell could never come to see him, save through iron bars and gratings in the wall.
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:
-- Of this the captive seemed conscious.
-- To all this the captive made no reply; but was content to preserve an attitude in which dignity was singularly blended with disdain.
-- Then, indeed, the captive turned his face toward the light, and looked down on the stripling with an expression that was superior to contempt.
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