coin是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 铸币, 硬币 vt. 铸造, 创造,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Has anyone a coin about them?
-- Vera Lebedeff tossed the coin into the air and let it fall on the table.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He threw out a gold coin for the valet to pick up, and all the heads craned forward that all the eyes might look down at it as it fell.
-- Without deigning to look at the assemblage a second time, Monsieur the Marquis leaned back in his seat, and was just being driven away with the air of a gentleman who had accidentally broke some common thing, and had paid for it, and could afford to pay for it; when his ease was suddenly disturbed by a coin flying into his carriage, and ringing on its floor.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The violets exhaled their sweet breath, whilst I pressed against the windowpanes covered with fan-tastic frost-work the copper coin I had heated on the stove, and so made peep-holes.
-- The professors made a professor of me; the tailors gave me new clothes I am well furnished; the master of the mint struck new coin for me, and the women said I was so handsome!And so I be-came the man I am.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Yes, her position is very difficult; she..." began Stepan Arkadyevitch, in the simplicity of his heart accepting as sterling coin Princess Myakaya's words "tell me about her."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was, perhaps, rather early in the morning to get up a concert, and the audience prematurely aroused from their slumbers, might not possibly pay their entertainer with coin bearing the Mikado's features.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When we got outside thedoor, Peggotty informed me that Mr. Barkis, being now 'a littlenearer' than he used to be, always resorted to this same devicebefore producing a single coin from his store; and that he enduredunheard-of agonies in crawling out of bed alone, and taking it fromthat unlucky box.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The coin being genuine, however, and changed at his house, he probably felt, like a wise landlord, that it was no business of his.
-- 'He gives me my revenge, mind,' said the old man, pointing to him eagerly with his shrivelled hand: 'mind he stakes coin against coin, down to the last one in the box, be there many or few.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Troy threw the coin dexterously across the front plot and over the fence towards Gabriel, who shunned it in its fall, his face turning to an angry red.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He came back to this quarter of the world, to the Rue des Gres, and went into a money-lender's house; everybody knows him, Gobseck, a stuck-up rascal, that would make dominoes out of his father's bones, a Turk, a heathen, an old Jew, a Greek; it would be a difficult matter to rob _him_, for he puts all his coin into the Bank."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make as good money!An obliging stranger, under pretence of compactly folding up my bank-notes for security's sake, abstracts the notes and gives me nutshells; but what is his sleight of hand to mine, when I fold up my own nutshells and pass them on myself as notes!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said Connie, putting the coin into the child's chub-by hand, which closed over it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For, though nobody knew with the least precision what Mr Merdle's business was, except that it was to coin money, these were the terms in which everybody defined it on all ceremonious occasions, and which it was the last new polite reading of the parable of the camel and the needle's eye to accept without inquiry.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He rings every coin to find a counterfeit.
-- " holding up a broad bright coin to the sun "it is a sixteen dollar piece, men.
-- When he halted before the binnacle, with his glance fastened on the pointed needle in the compass, that glance shot like a javelin with the pointed intensity of his purpose; and when resuming his walk he again paused before the mainmast, then, as the same riveted glance fastened upon the riveted gold coin there, he still wore the same aspect of nailed firmness, only dashed with a certain wild longing, if not hopefulness.
-- So this bright coin came from a country planted in the middle of the world, and beneath the great equator, and named after it; and it had been cast midway up the Andes, in the unwaning clime that knows no autumn.
-- I have never marked the coin inspectingly.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "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.
-- "Here you are," remarked a bystander, putting a coin into his hand.
-- The sight of the large, bright coin pleased him a little.
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