freight是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 货运, 货物; vt. 运输,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His new freight represented fifty pounds, and he rated it far below the two hundred tons of cured hides which were stowed away in his hold.
-- Paganel asked John Mangles whether the raft could not follow the coast as far as Auckland, instead of landing its freight on the coast.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I will freight it for you."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He wandered by freight trains, on blind baggages, on foot.
-- Along the railroad bumped a freight train with a cheerful clanking.
-- Martin perceived that Pickerbaugh meant it, and the shame of the realization kept him from leaping up, seizing Leora, and catching the first freight train out of Nautilus.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As it was too late an hour to repair to the exhibition room, they turned aside into a piece of waste ground that lay just within the old town-gate, and drew up there for the night, near to another caravan, which, notwithstanding that it bore on the lawful panel the great name of Jarley, and was employed besides in conveying from place to place the wax-work which was its country's pride, was designated by a grovelling stamp-office as a 'Common Stage Waggon,' and numbered too seven thousand odd hundred as though its precious freight were mere flour or coals!
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Where vacant lots had been a year before, there were now factories turningout harness, saddles and shoes, ordnance-supply plants making rifles and cannon, rolling mills and foundries producingiron rails and freight cars to replace those destroyed by the Yankees, and a variety of industries manufacturing spurs,bridle bits, buckles, tents, buttons, pistols and swords.
-- "Dey'sbuhnin' de foun'ry an' de ahmy supply depots an' de wa'houses an', fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett, dey done set off demsebenty freight cahs of cannon balls an' gunpowder an', Jesus, we's all gwine ter buhn up!"
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There is some advantage in this; because these twin-tubs being so small they fit more readily into the boat, and do not strain it so much; whereas, the American tub, nearly three feet in diameter and of proportionate depth, makes a rather bulky freight for a craft whose planks are but one half-inch in thickness; for the bottom of the whale-boat is like critical ice, which will bear up a considerable distributed weight, but not very much of a concentrated one.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I'm the captain and the owner and the mate and the pilot and watchman and head deck-hand; and some- times I'm the freight and passengers.
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