complaint是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 抱怨, 诉苦, 怨言, 控告; 疾病,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The complaint had sometimes made it-self audible, even in that deaf city and dumb age, that, in the narrow streets without footways, the fierce patrician custom of hard driving endangered and maimed the mere vulgar in a barbarous manner.
-- With this view, he urged his son to hold her in conversation also, and led the unfortunate woman a hard life by dwell-ing on any causes of complaint he could bring against her, rather than he would leave her for a moment to her own reflections.
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:
-- As the daughter of a king, she needed not to stand upon trifles, so she said, 'Your complaint is, that you cannot cast a shadow?'
-- 'Your Royal Highness must be improving considerably,' 184 Andersen's Fairy Talessaid the shadow, 'I know your complaint is, that you see too clearly, but it has decreased, you are cured.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The colonel of the regiment was waited upon by the government clerk, Venden, with a complaint against his officers, who had insulted his wife.
-- And he related how a peasant had stolen some flour from the miller, and when the miller told him of it, had lodged a complaint for slander.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The priests took their places in front of the judge, and the clerk proceeded to read in a loud voice a complaint of sacrilege against Phileas Fogg and his servant, who were accused of having violated a place held consecrated by the Brahmin religion.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The complaint of the unions was the one thing to convince him that at last he had found perfection.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This last complaint was so characteristic of Pyotr Petro-vitch, that Raskolnikov, pale with anger and with the effort of restraining it, could not help breaking into laughter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But as my aunt had swathed meup, I made no complaint of being inconvenienced.
-- 'It's a complaint we are all liable to, Little One, as we get on in life,'said my aunt, cheerfully; 'I don't feel more free from it than I usedto be, I assure you.'
-- A murmur, partly of gratification at Twenty Seven'scelestial state of mind, and partly of indignation against thecontractor who had given him any cause of complaint (a note ofwhich was immediately made by Mr. Creakle), having subsided,Twenty Seven stood in the midst of us, as if he felt himself theprincipal object of merit in a highly meritorious museum.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Did she know? had she heard any thing about her, since their being at Randalls? he felt much anxiety he must confess that the nature of her complaint alarmed him considerably.'
-- She had reason to believe her nearly recovered from her cold, and it was desirable that she should have as much time as possible for getting the better of her other complaint be-fore the gentleman's return.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Wade was quieter than usual and did not set up his every morning complaint against the hominy that he sodisliked.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a weak complaint to have made, and I had not meant to make it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I coom home wi'out a hope, and mad wi' thinking that when I said a word o' complaint I was reckoned a unreasonable Hand.
-- 'You will understand, Mr. Harthouse,' she returned, after some indecision: she had been more or less uncertain, and troubled throughout the conversation, and yet had in the main preserved her self-contained manner; 'you will understand that if I tell you what you press to know, it is not by way of complaint or regret.
-- The seizure of the station with a fit of trembling, gradually deepening to a complaint of the heart, announced the train.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was no shadow of Mr Merdle's complaint on the bosom now displaying precious stones in rivalry with many similar superb jewel-stands; there was no shadow of Mr Merdle's complaint on young Sparkler hovering about the rooms, monomaniacally seeking any sufficiently ineligible young lady with no nonsense about her; there was no shadow of Mr Merdle's complaint on the Barnacles and Stiltstalkings, of whom whole colonies were present; or on any of the company.
-- 'A complaint of you,' said Mrs Merdle.
-- 'Oh!A complaint of me,' said Mr Merdle.
-- 'You were saying, Mrs Merdle,' said Mr Merdle, with his wounded finger in his mouth, 'that you had a complaint against me?'
-- 'A complaint which I could scarcely show the justice of more emphatically, than by having to repeat it,' said Mrs Merdle.
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