quarrel是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 争吵, 争论n. 争吵, 争吵的原因,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:
-- 'I remembered there was some quarrel between father and Miss Smith, the Bielokonski's governess,' said Colia.
-- She actually relaxed towards the general a little he had been long disgraced and though she managed to quarrel with them all the next day, yet she soon came round, and from her general behav-iour it was to be concluded that she had bad good news of some sort, which she would like, but could not make up her mind, to disclose.
-- Deal with them promptly, prince, and don't spare them!I am sick of hearing about the affair, and many a quarrel I have had in your cause.
-- 'I think so too,' said Mrs. Epanchin; 'he will quarrel with you, and be off,' and she drew her workbox towards her with an air of dignity, quite oblivious of the fact that the family was about to start for a walk in the park.
-- I don't want to quarrel with my sisters, but I told my parents long ago that I wish to change my social position.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have no quarrel with them.
-- Surely Priam with his sons would rejoice, and the Trojans be glad at heart if they could hear this quarrel between you two, who are so excellent in fight and coun-sel.
-- Son of Atreus, check your anger, I implore you; end this quarrel with Achilles, who in the day of battle is a tower of strength to the Achaeans.'
-- They stood fearfully and reverently before him, and never a word did they speak, but he knew them and said, 'Welcome, heralds, messengers of gods and men; draw near; my quarrel is not with you but with Agamemnon who has sent you for the girl Briseis.
-- Of the men, Ajax, son of Telamon, was much the foremost so long as Achilles' anger lasted, for Achil-les excelled him greatly and he had also better horses; but Achilles was now holding aloof at his ships by reason of his quarrel with Agamemnon, and his people passed their time upon the sea shore, throwing discs or aiming with spears at a mark, and in archery.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And for Radney, though in his infancy he may have laid him down on the lone Nantucket beach, to nurse at his maternal sea; though in after life he had long followed our austere Atlantic and your contemplative Pacific; yet was he quite as vengeful and full of social quarrel as the backwoods seaman, fresh from the latitudes of buck-horn handled Bowie-knives.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Sikes, being disappointed of the dog's participation, at once transferred his share in the quarrel to the new comer.
-- 'And I don't quarrel with it now; because, if it had never happened, you might never have clapped eyes on the boy to notice him, and so led to the discovery that it was him you were looking for.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Collins might never make the offer, and till he did, it was useless to quarrel about him.
-- The sudden ac-quisition of ten thousand pounds was the most remarkable charm of the young lady to whom he was now rendering himself agreeable; but Elizabeth, less clear-sighted perhaps in this case than in Charlotte's, did not quarrel with him for his wish of independence.
-- Do not let us quarrel about the past.
-- 'We will not quarrel for the greater share of blame an-nexed to that evening,' said Elizabeth.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But now, when, as I have said, I began to be weary of the fruitless excursion which I had made so long and so far every morning in vain, so my opinion of the action itself be-gan to alter; and I began, with cooler and calmer thoughts, to consider what I was going to engage in; what authority or call I had to pretend to be judge and executioner upon these men as criminals, whom Heaven had thought fit for so many ages to suffer unpunished to go on, and to be as it were the executioners of His judgments one upon another; how far these people were offenders against me, and what right I had to engage in the quarrel of that blood which they shed promiscuously upon one another.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One moment she feared that no serious design had ever been formed on his side; and the next that some unfortunate quarrel had taken place between him and her sister; the distress in which Marianne had quitted the room was such as a serious quarrel could most reasonably account for, though when she considered what Marianne's love for him was, a quarrel seemed almost impossible.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "We needn't quarrel about that.
-- "Never mind about this quarrel now.
-- It looked as if the quarrel would blow over, if they could only get some way of talking to one another.
-- She did not quarrel now with Hurstwood's idleness.
-- Hurstwood noticed it, but felt in no position to quarrel with her.
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