Swede是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 瑞典人,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was a Swede by birth, a German by education, a little of everything by speech, and his clubs were in London, Paris, Washington, and New York.
-- He was summoned into the reception- room of the department to explain to angry citizens why the garage next door to them should smell of gasoline; he went back to his cubbyhole to dictate letters to school-principals about dental clinics; he drove out to Swede Hollow to see what attention the food and dairy inspector had given to the slaughterhouses; he ordered a family in Shantytown quarantined; and escaped at last into the laboratory.
-- She owned, in Swede Hollow, the filthiest block of tenements in Nautilus.
-- "Oh, you know--that funny Swede that used to dance and everything."
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:
-- The Swede is adept at the gentle pastime of fishing in troubled waters.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was a silent man, American born, of a Swede father, and now employed as a cleaner of refrigerator cars at the stock-yards.
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