per是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为prep. 每; 经, 由,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:
-- "And it won't run to more than twenty-five yards of fagots per acre, and he's giving me at the rate of seventy roubles the acre."
-- He wouldn't look at a bargain that gave him ten, fifteen per cent profit, but holds back to buy a rouble's worth for twenty kopecks."
-- I make five per cent."
-- Now I do more work than I did in the service, and like you I get five per cent on the land, and thank God for that.
-- The money for two-thirds of the forest had all been spent already, and he had borrowed from the merchant in advance at ten per cent discount, almost all the remaining third.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent.
-- "I offer you a hundred pounds per day, and an additional reward of two hundred pounds if I reach Yokohama in time."
-- It would clearly have been to the master's advantage to carry his passengers to Yokohama, since he was paid a certain sum per day; but he would have been rash to attempt such a voyage, and it was imprudent even to attempt to reach Shanghai.
-- It was in the section included between this range and the Rocky Mountains that the American engineers found the most formidable difficulties in laying the road, and that the government granted a subsidy of forty-eight thousand dollars per mile, instead of sixteen thousand allowed for the work done on the plains.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- D'you realize that 67.9 per cent of all women who go to the operating table have husbands who smoke tobacco?"
-- In some villages in Africa, fifty per cent of the people have it, and it is invariably fatal.
-- "We'll pay you six per cent--no, we won't; we'll pay you five; that's enough."
-- This one, about the temperance meeting I addressed in Des Moines--say, I had that hall, and it was jam-pack-full, lifting right up on their feet when I proved by statistics that ninety-three per cent of all insanity is caused by booze!Then this--well, it hasn't anything to do with health, directly, but it'll just indicate the opportunity you'll have here to get in touch with all the movements for civic weal."
-- He held out a newspaper clipping in which, above a pen-and-ink caricature portraying him with large mustached head on a tiny body, was the headline: DOC PICKERBAUGH BANNER BOOSTER OF EVANGELINE COUNTY LEADS BIG GO- TO-CHURCH DEMONSTRATION HERE Pickerbaugh looked it over, reflecting, "That was a dandy meeting!We increased church attendance here seventeen per cent!Oh, Doctor, you went to Winnemac and had your internship in Zenith, didn't you?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For the last two years he has been bothering me to borrow it from him and pay him six per cent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I never couldhave derived anything like the pleasure from spending the moneyMr. Dick had given me, that I felt in sending a gold half-guinea toPeggotty, per post, inclosed in this last letter, to discharge the sum Ihad borrowed of her: in which epistle, not before, I mentionedabout the young man with the donkey-cart.
-- Why, the Ecclesiastical Delegates werethe advocates without any business, who had looked on at theround game when it was playing on both courts, and had seen thecards shuffled, and cut, and played, and had talked to all theplayers about it, and now came fresh, as judges, to settle the matterto the satisfaction of everybody!Discontented people might talk ofcorruption in the Commons, closeness in the Commons, and thenecessity of reforming the Commons, said Mr. Spenlow solemnly,in conclusion; but when the price of wheat per bushel had beenhighest, the Commons had been busiest; and a man might lay hishand upon his heart, and say this to the whole world.- 'Touch theCommons, and down comes the country!'
-- That 362about the price of wheat per bushel, I modestly felt was too muchfor my strength, and quite settled the question.
-- I don't know what the bank shares were worth for a littlewhile,' said my aunt; 'cent per cent was the lowest of it, I believe;but the bank was at the other end of the world, and tumbled intospace, for what I know; anyhow, it fell to pieces, and never willand never can pay sixpence; and Betsey's sixpences were all there,and there's an end of them.
-- '"This stipendiary emoluments in consideration of which I enteredinto the service Of- HEEP,"' always pausing before that word anduttering it with astonishing vigour, '"were not defined, beyond thepittance, of twenty-two shillings and six per week.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At the onset of the war, he had emerged from obscurity with enough money to buy a small swift boat and now,when blockaded goods realized two thousand per cent on each cargo, he owned four boats.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
-- Now it appeared to him (Pumblechook) that if that capital were got into the business, through a sleeping partner, sir,--which sleeping partner would have nothing to do but walk in, by self or deputy, whenever he pleased, and examine the books,--and walk in twice a year and take his profits away in his pocket, to the tune of fifty per cent,--it appeared to him that that might be an opening for a young gentleman of spirit combined with property, which would be worthy of his attention.
-- And at the rate of that handsome sum of money per annum, and at no higher rate, you are to live until the donor of the whole appears.
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