month是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 月 , 月 份,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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I am sure, a month ago, I had no more idea myself! The strangest things do take place!'
-- But poor Mrs. Bates had a bad cold about a month ago.'
-- said she. 'To chuse to remain here month after month, under privations of every sort!And now to chuse the mortification of Mrs. Elton's no-tice and the penury of her conversation, rather than return to the superior companions who have always loved her with such real, generous affection.'
-- May is the very month which Mrs. Churchill is ordered, or has ordered herself, to spend in some warmer place than Enscombe in short, to spend in London; so that we have the agreeable prospect of frequent visits from Frank the whole spring precisely the season of the year which one should have chosen for it: days almost at the longest; weather genial and pleasant, always inviting one out, and never too hot for exercise.
-- Emma's comforts and hopes were most agreeably carried on, by Harriet's being to stay longer; her fortnight was likely to be a month at least.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Far from the Madding CrowdPREFACEIn reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of "Far from the Madding Crowd," as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word "Wessex" from the pages of early English history, and give it a fictitious significance as the existing name of the district once included in that extinct kingdom.
-- Oak was not bound by his agreement to assist in the corn-field; but the harvest month is an anxious time for a farmer, and the corn was Bathsheba's, so he lent a hand.
-- One Saturday evening in the month of October Bathsheba's vehicle was duly creeping up this incline.
-- "And you mean, Frank," said Bathsheba, sadly her voice was painfully lowered from the fulness and vivacity of the previous summer "that you have lost more than a hundred pounds in a month by this dreadful horse-racing?
-- I've been drinky once this month already, and I did not go to church a-Sunday, and I dropped a curse or two yesterday; so I don't want to go too far for my safety.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Michonneau, could only muster forty-five francs a month to pay for their board and lodging.
-- It was a characteristic trait of his generously to pay fifteen francs a month for the cup of coffee with a dash of brandy in it, which he took after dinner.
-- A month after this visit M. Goriot received another.
-- So by the end of the month of November 1819, at the time when the curtain rises on this drama, every one in the house had come to have a very decided opinion as to the poor old man.
-- His father, mother, brothers, sisters, and aunt did not spend two hundred francs a month among them.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I do not intend to sail until the month of June; and when shall I return?
-- The month of May had already commenced, and I expect-ed the letter daily which was to fix the date of my departure, when Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt, that I might bid a personal farewell to the coun-try I had so long inhabited.
-- The weather was fine; it was about the middle of the month of August, nearly two months after the death of Justine, that miserable 106 Frankensteinepoch from which I dated all my woe.
-- But in giving an account of the progress of my intellect, I must not omit a circumstance which occurred in the begin- ning of the month of August of the same year.
-- I may be absent a month or two; but do not interfere with my motions, I entreat you; leave me to peace and solitude for a short time; and when I return, I hope it will be with a lighter heart, more congenial to your own temper.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Just before we got home that new stallion Ma got in Kentucky last month wasbrought in, and the place was in a stew.
-- They hadmany friends, and for a month they carried Gerald from home to home, to suppers, dances and picnics.
-- "He's been gone to Louisiana this month now," said Gerald.
-- "But don't you fret,Miss Scarlett, it'll be over in a month and we'll have them howling.
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