chair是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 椅子; (会议的) 主席vt. 当…的主席, 主持,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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- he cried, fumbling about him for his cane and heaving himself out of his chair with more energy thanhe had shown in years.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But such a--" he moved his chair and looked about the floor between us, and then again at me--"such a most oncommon Bolt as that!"
-- In my dreadful situation, it was a relief when he was brought back, and surveying the company all round as if they had disagreed with him, sank down into his chair with the one significant gasp, "Tar!"
-- We got a chair out, ready for Mrs. Joe's alighting, and stirred up the fire that they might see a bright window, and took a final survey of the kitchen that nothing might be out of its place.
-- "Well, boy," Uncle Pumblechook began, as soon as he was seated in the chair of honor by the fire.
-- On the broad landing between Miss Havisham's own room and that other room in which the long table was laid out, I saw a garden-chair,--a light chair on wheels, that you pushed from behind.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said Hans aloud, 'what a fine thing it is to ride on horseback!There he sits as easy and happy as if he was at home, in the chair by his fireside; he trips against no stones, saves shoe-leather, and gets on he hardly knows how.'
-- Early in the morning, before it was quite light, and when nobody was stirring in the inn, Chanticleer awakened his wife, and, fetching the egg, they pecked a hole in it, ate it up, and threw the shells into the fireplace: they then went to the pin and needle, who were fast asleep, and seizing them by the heads, stuck one into the landlord's easy chair and the other into his handkerchief; and, having done this, they crept away as softly as possible.
-- Then he ran home, shut the house-door, and sat down in his chair and worked.
-- So she went upstairs to her room, and took a white handkerchief out of her top drawer; then she set the boy's head again on his shoulders, and bound it with the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen, and placed him on a chair by the door with an apple in his hand.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The parallel sticks secured them and their horses from fall-ing over the stage; and the emperor was so much delighted, that he ordered this entertainment to be repeated several 41days, and once was pleased to be lifted up and give the word of command; and with great difficulty persuaded even the empress herself to let me hold her in her close chair within two yards of the stage, when she was able to take a full view of the whole performance.
-- Having a head mechanically turned, and be-ing likewise forced by necessity, I had made for myself a table and chair convenient enough, out of the largest trees in the royal park.
-- The chairmen were dismissed; I put the chair, with his lordship in it, into my coat-pocket: and, giving orders to a trusty servant, to say I was indisposed and gone to sleep, I fastened the door 77of my house, placed the chair on the table, according to my usual custom, and sat down by it.
-- I had a table placed upon the same at which her majesty ate, just at her left elbow, and 127a chair to sit on.
-- It is the custom, that every Wednesday (which, as I have observed, is their Sabbath) the king and queen, with the roy-128 Gulliver's Travelsal issue of both sexes, dine together in the apartment of his majesty, to whom I was now become a great favourite; and at these times, my little chair and table were placed at his left hand, before one of the salt- cellars.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Bounderby,' said Mr. Gradgrind, drawing a chair to the fireside, 'you are always so interested in my young people particularly in Louisa that I make no apology for saying to you, I am very much vexed by this discovery.
-- Young Thomas expressed these sentiments sitting astride of a chair before the fire, with his arms on the back, and his sulky face on his arms.
-- 'Why, there's one thing to be said of it,' returned Tom, pushing his chair from him, and standing up; 'it will be getting away from home.'
-- He slowly moved to a chair and sat down, drooping his head before her.
-- Try to sleep in the chair there, while I watch.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We each took a chair on opposite sides of the table.
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:
-- For he had to sit in a wheeled chair or a sort of bath-chair.
-- The chair chuffed slowly up the incline, rocking and jolt-ing on the frozen clods.
-- Clifford sat with a fixed face as the chair slowly mounted.
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