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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Besides insulting Burdovsky with the supposition, made in the presence of witnesses, that he was suffering from the complaint for which he had him-self been treated in Switzerland, he reproached himself with the grossest indelicacy in having offered him the ten thousand roubles before everyone.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Have you any complaint to make against her?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Insufficiently protected by their clothing, Pencroft, Herbert and Spilett suffered cruelly, but not a complaint escaped their lips.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Kit was disposed to be out of temper, as the best of us are too often but he looked at the youngest child who was sleeping soundly, and from him to his other brother in the clothes-basket, and from him to their mother, who had been at work without complaint since morning, and thought it would be a better and kinder thing to be good-humoured.
-- He was patient, and quiet; often sat brooding, but not despondently, for a long space; was easily amused, even by a sun-beam on the wall or ceiling; made no complaint that the days were long, or the nights tedious; and appeared indeed to have lost all count of time, and every sense of care or weariness.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'm not a doctor only; I'm a magistrate; and if I catch a breath of complaint against you, if it's only for a piece of incivility like tonight's, I'll take effectual means to have you hunted down and routed out of this.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Do you mean to state what your complaint against this boy is, man, or do you not?
-- 'Well, I've heerd that complaint of it, once or twice before,' replied the trader; 'but it soon cools down again; don't you find it so?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The next morning early, two of the five men came swimming to the ship's side, and making the most lamentable complaint of the other three, begged to be taken into the ship for God's sake, for they should be murdered, and begged the captain to take them on board, though he hanged them immediately.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks."
-- Mrs. Jennings, who had been inclined from the first to think Marianne's complaint more serious than Elinor, now looked very grave on Mr. Harris's report, and confirming Charlotte's fears and caution, urged the necessity of her immediate removal with her infant; and Mr. Palmer, though treating their apprehensions as idle, found the anxiety and importunity of his wife too great to be withstood.
-- The repose of the latter became more and more disturbed; and her sister, who watched, with unremitting attention her continual change of posture, and heard the frequent but inarticulate sounds of complaint which passed her lips, was almost wishing to rouse her from so painful a slumber, when Marianne, suddenly awakened by some accidental noise in the house, started hastily up, and, with feverish wildness, cried out, "Is mama coming? ""Not yet," cried the other, concealing her terror, and assisting Marianne to lie down again, "but she will be here, I hope, before it is long.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She began to see that they looked upon her complaint as unwarranted, and that she was supposed to work on and say nothing.
-- There was so much warmth in it and such tense complaint at her having failed to meet him, and her subsequent silence, that she rather pitied the man.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They were uncomfortable, they were piled one on top of the other, they could hardly breathe; yet not one word of complaint was heard.
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