pocket是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 衣袋a. 袖珍的, 小型的v. 把…装入袋内,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The stranger tried to pull out his watch to see the time; but it was not till he had rummaged through the ninth pocket that he found it.
-- "Then these Australian Alps," said Lord Glenarvan, "are—""Mere pocket mountains," put in Paganel; "we shall get over them without knowing it."
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was like one of those unreasoning but still highly useful, multum in parvo, Sheffield contrivances, assuming the exterior though a little swelled of a common pocket knife; but containing, not only blades of various sizes, but also screw-drivers, cork-screws, tweezers, awls, pens, rulers, nail-filers, countersinkers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- interposed the nurse, hastily depositing in her pocket a green glass bottle, the contents of which she had been tasting in a corner with evident satisfaction.
-- The merry old gentleman, placing a snuff-box in one pocket of his trousers, a note-case in the other, and a watch in his waistcoat pocket, with a guard-chain round his neck, and sticking a mock diamond pin in his shirt: buttoned his coat tight round him, and putting his spectacle-case and handkerchief in his pockets, trotted up and down the room with a stick, in imitation of the manner in which old gentlemen walk about the streets any hour in the day.
-- Oliver held up the bottom of the pocket with one hand, as he had seen the Dodger hold it, and drew the handkerchief lightly out of it with the other.
-- Oliver wondered what picking the old gentleman's pocket in play, had to do with his chances of being a great man.
-- BEING A SHORT, BUT VERY IMPORTANT CHAPTER, IN THIS HISTORY For many days, Oliver remained in the Jew's room, picking the marks out of the pocket -handkerchief, (of which a great number were brought home,) and sometimes taking part in the game already described: which the two boys and the Jew played, regularly , every morning.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He would scarcely be ten pounds a year the loser by the hundred that was to be paid them; for, what with her board and pocket allowance, and the con-tinual presents in money which passed to her through her mother's hands, Lydia's expenses had been very little within that sum.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But as it was always my fate to choose for the worse, so I did here; for having money in my pocket and good clothes upon my back, I would always go on board in the habit of a gentleman; and so I neither had any business in the ship, nor learned to do any.
-- I wrote the English captain's widow a full account of all my adventures - my slavery, escape, and how I had met with the Portuguese captain at sea, the humanity of his be-haviour, and what condition I was now in, with all other necessary directions for my supply; and when this honest captain came to Lisbon, he found means, by some of the English merchants there, to send over, not the order only, but a full account of my story to a merchant in London, who represented it effectually to her; whereupon she not only delivered the money, but out of her own pocket sent the Portugal captain a very handsome present for his humanity and charity to me.
-- I took my bottle out of my pocket and gave it him, making signs that he should drink, which he did; and I gave him a piece of bread, which he ate.
-- I had in my pocket two or three bunches of raisins, so I gave him a handful of them for his father.
-- He perceived the surprise, and immediately pulled a bottle out of his pocket and gave me a dram of cordial, which he had brought on purpose for me.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said she, on his taking Miss Steeles's pocket handkerchief, and throwing it out of window "He is full of monkey tricks."
-- I heard from him just before I left Exeter;" taking a letter from her pocket and carelessly showing the direction to Elinor.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He took out his pencil and a little pocket note-book as if it were all settled.
-- He reached down in his hip pocket and took out a fat purse.
-- "It's unfair to let such playing go without earning something," he said after a time, slipping his finger into the little coin pocket of his coat.
-- "As mother felt in her pocket for some change, her fingers touched a cold and trembling hand which had clutched her purse."
-- "Let me show you something," he said, affably, coming over and taking out of his pocket a little lithographed card which had been issued by a wholesale tobacco company.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So you had it in your pocket all the time; and like as not you've got the other things there, too.
-- And we had to make up the pictures of coffins and things, and non- namous letters from the robbers, and get up and down the lightning-rod, and dig the hole into the cabin, and made the rope ladder and send it in cooked up in a pie, and send in spoons and things to work with in your apron pocket ' 'Mercy sakes!'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pinocchio became very thoughtful and, forgetting his good manners altogether, he pulled a hand out of his pocket and gave his head a thorough scratching.
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