fame是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 名声, 名誉,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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jove has sent us this sign, long in coming, and long ere it be fulfilled, though its fame shall last for ever.
-- Thus will one say, and my fame shall not be lost.'
-- With this they fell praying to King Jove the son of Saturn, and thus would one of them say as he looked into the vault of heaven, 'Father Jove that rulest from Ida, most glorious in power, vouchsafe victory to Ajax, and let him win great glory: but if you wish well to Hector also and would protect him, grant to each of them equal fame and prowess.'
-- The fame of this wall will reach as far as dawn itself, and men will no longer think anything of the one which Phoebus Apollo and myself built with so much labour for Laomedon.'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was known that he was a Jew, born and educated in Germany, and that his work on immunology had given him fame in the East and in Europe.
-- He exulted, "I'm going to have 'em all--the fame of Max Gottlieb--I mean his ability--and the lovely music and lovely women-- Golly!I'm going to do big things.
-- He was human enough, when he meditated upon the exaltation of doctors bold through ignorance, of inventors who were but tinkers magnified, to be irritated by his lack of fame in America, even in Mohalis, and to complain not too nobly.
-- While the other rickety cars of the village announced to the world, or at least to several square miles of the world, that Wheatsylvania was the "Wonder Town of Central N. D.," Martin's clattering Ford went bare; and when his enemy Norblom remarked, "I like to see a fellow have some public spirit and appreciate the place he gets his money outa," the citizenry nodded and spat, and began to question Martin's fame as a worker of miracles.
-- When Bert Tozer heard of the affair, he feared for the good fame of Wheatsylvania, and to everyone he gossiped about Martin's evil ways and his own patience.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There's fame for him, and he's welcome to it.'
-- 'Among the persons who are attracted to me in my rising fame andfortune,' said I, looking over my letters, 'and who discover thatthey were always much attached to me, is the self-same Creakle.
-- I had advanced in fame and fortune, my domestic joy was perfect, Ihad been married ten happy years.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Fairfax of the regiment of in-fantry, and Miss Jane Bates, had had its day of fame and pleasure, hope and interest; but nothing now remained of it, save the melancholy remembrance of him dying in ac-tion abroad of his widow sinking under consumption and grief soon afterwards and this girl.
-- A week had not passed since Miss Hawkins's name was first mentioned in Highbury, before she was, by some means or other, discovered to have every recommenda-tion of person and mind; to be handsome, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable: and when Mr. Elton himself arrived to triumph in his happy prospects, and cir-culate the fame of her merits, there was very little more for him to do, than to tell her Christian name, and say whose music she principally played.
-- I assure you the utmost stretch of public fame would not make me amends for the loss of any happiness in private life.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have often since reflected, what destruction such doctrine would make in the libraries of Europe; and how many paths of fame would be then shut up in the learned world.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Little notice was taken of her stories, but they found a market, and encouraged by this fact, she resolved to make a bold stroke for fame and fortune.
-- Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient, so I wish to take the sense of the meeting on this important subject,' said Jo, calling a family council.
-- You wrote with not thoughts of fame and money, and put your heart into it, my daughter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Rose, my own dear Rose!For years--for years--I have loved you; hoping to win my way to fame, and then come proudly home and tell you it had been pursued only for you to share; thinking, in my daydreams, how I would remind you, in that happy moment, of the many silent tokens I had given of a boy's attachment, and claim your hand, as in redemption of some old mute contract that had been sealed between us!That time has not arrived; but here, with not fame won, and no young vision realised, I offer you the heart so long your own, and stake my all upon the words with which you greet the offer.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had not been long seated before he complimented Mrs. Bennet on hav-ing so fine a family of daughters; said he had heard much of their beauty, but that in this instance fame had fallen short of the truth; and added, that he did not doubt her seeing them all in due time disposed of in marriage.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But how is your fame to be established?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She had not had fame or money before.
-- As a matter of fact, her little newspaper fame was nothing at all to him.
扩展阅读: