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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And if you'd seen the intent look on the faces of these boys, and the way they darted in the filth when a coin was flung really, no vulture or jackal could dream of approaching them, for foulness.
-- Yet of course, her cynicism knew well enough that, in a world where spurious coin was current, a bad sovereign was better than a bad farthing.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He said "I hunt for haddocks' eyesAmong the heather bright,And work them into waistcoat-buttonsIn the silent night.And these I do not sell for goldOr coin of silvery shineBut for a copper halfpenny,And that will purchase nine.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Before a big fire lay Captain Smollett; and in a far corner, only duskily flickered over by the blaze, I beheld great heaps of coin and quadrilaterals built of bars of gold.
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