pearl是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 珍珠,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:
-- As for his red-nosed neighbour, the latter since the in-formation as to the identity of Rogojin hung over him, seemed to be living on the honey of his words and in the breath of his nostrils, catching at every syllable as though it were a pearl of great price.
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:
-- 'And on he went bold-ly up to the Princess, who was sitting on a pearl as large as a spinning-wheel.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Make your salute to Toomai of the Elephants!Gunga Pershad, ahaa!Hira Guj, Birchi Guj, Kut-tar Guj, ahaa!Pudmini, thou hast seen him at the dance, and thou too, Kala Nag, my pearl among elephants! ahaa!
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "And now, Doctor, I want you to meet the real Director of the Institute--my secretary, Miss Pearl Robbins."
-- Tubbs, Holabird, and perhaps Tubbs's secretary, Pearl Robbins, were the ruling caste.
-- And the most belligerent of all, Miss Pearl Robbins, she who at tea heroically slaughtered not only German men but all their women and viperine children, was wickedly unrecognized and had to make up a uniform for herself.
-- He's got a bunch of nephews and so on in the German army, and the patriots like Big Foot Pearl will give an exhibit of idealism by persecuting him.
-- He found chocolate belonging to an innocent technician; he even invaded the office of the Director and in the desk of the Diana-like Pearl Robbins unearthed tea and a kettle (as well as a lip-stick, and a love-letter beginning "My Little Ickles").
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:
-- I went to see him because I was told he had a large black pearl which he was willing to sell cheaply, and when I discovered that it was beyond my means I began to talk to him about Strickland.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The pearl necklace and bracelets which I inherited from mamma, have been disposed of for less than half their value; and the set of coral, which was the wedding gift of my papa, has been actually thrown away for nothing.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On taking the bearings, I knew that we were nearing the island of Ceylon, the pearl which hangs from the lobe of the Indian Peninsula.
-- "Sir," said Conseil, "would you give us some details of the pearl fishery?"
-- "My worthy Ned," I answered, "to the poet, a pearl is a tear of the sea; to the Orientals, it is a drop of dew solidified; to the ladies, it is a jewel of an oblong shape, of a brilliancy of mother-of-pearl substance, which they wear on their fingers, their necks, or their ears; for the chemist it is a mixture of phosphate and carbonate of lime, with a little gelatine; and lastly, for naturalists, it is simply a morbid secretion of the organ that produces the mother-of-pearl amongst certain bivalves."
-- "But," I continued, "the particular mollusc which secretes the pearl is the pearl-oyster, the meleagrina margaritiferct, that precious pintadine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Edmund,' said Mrs Sparkler, 'open (now, very carefully, I beg and beseech, for you are so very awkward) the mother of pearl box on my little table there, and give Mr Merdle the mother of pearl penknife.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I shall have a new ribbon for my hair, and Marmee will lend me her little pearl pin, and my new slippers are lovely, and my gloves will do, though they aren't as nice as I'd like.'
-- They looked very well in their sim-ple suits, Meg's in silvery drab, with a blue velvet snood, lace frills, and the pearl pin.
-- 'There is a lovely old-fashioned pearl set in the treasure chest, but Mother said real flowers were the prettiest orna-ment for a young girl, and Laurie promised to send me all I want,' replied Meg.
-- A Russian prince condescended to sit in a corner for an hour and talk with a massive lady, dressed like Hamlet's mother in black velvet with a pearl bridle under her chin.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The flare of the gas-jets, the open trunks, suggestive of travel and display, the scattered contents of the make-up box--rouge, pearl powder, whiting, burnt cork, India ink, pencils for the eye-lids, wigs, scissors, looking-glasses, drapery--in short, all the nameless paraphernalia of disguise, have a remarkable atmosphere of their own.
-- He was charmed by the pale face, the lissome figure, draped in pearl grey, with a coiled string of pearls at the throat.
-- "You and Pearl had no disagreement?"
-- or, "Have you seen the new gloves with the oval pearl buttons?"
-- One little advertisement he had, relating to a saloon down in Pearl Street.
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