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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is thither that after many wanderings Charles Strickland came, and it is there that he painted the pictures on which his fame most securely rests.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A god less powerful than yourself might be alarmed at what they are doing, but your fame reaches as far as dawn itself.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Things that would have made the fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not at all intimidated by this rebuff, but rather sharpened in wits and appetite, Mr Swiveller forwarded the same message to another and more distant eating-house, adding to it by way of rider that the gentleman was induced to send so far, not only by the great fame and popularity its beef had acquired, but in consequence of the extreme toughness of the beef retailed at the obdurant cook's shop, which rendered it quite unfit not merely for gentlemanly food, but for any human consumption.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They had recently seen a chosen army from that country, which, reverencing as a mother, they had blindly believed invincible an army led by a chief who had been selected from a crowd of trained warriors, for his rare military en-dowments, disgracefully routed by a handful of French and Indians, and only saved from annihilation by the coolness and spirit of a Virginian boy, whose riper fame has since diffused itself, with the steady influence of moral truth, to the uttermost confines of Christendom.
-- exclaimed Heyward, in the heat of his youthful ardor; 'the fame of it reached us early, in our southern army.'
-- Already had his fair fame been tarnished by one horrid scene, and in circumstances fearfully resembling those under which he now found himself.
-- However much his influence among his people had been impaired by his occa- sional and besetting weakness, as well as by his desertion of the tribe, his courage and his fame as an orator were unde- niable.
-- Magua had often heard the fame of this wise and just Delaware; a reputation that even proceeded so far as to bestow on him the rare gift of hold-ing secret communion with the Great Spirit, and which has since transmitted his name, with some slight altera-tion, to the white usurpers of his ancient territory, as the imaginary tutelar saint* of a vast empire.
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