furnish是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 用家具装备房子; 供应,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:
-- Paddy could furnish both bullocks and vehicle.
-- It is a sieve, whose interstices furnish a passage for the earth's vapors in the shape of boiling geysers and solfataras.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I do not trouble you with my theories, for you asked me to furnish you only with facts.
-- He might claim the property from South America, establish his identity be-fore the British authorities there and so obtain the fortune without ever coming to England at all; or he might adopt an elaborate disguise during the short time that he need be in London; or, again, he might furnish an accomplice with the proofs and papers, putting him in as heir, and retaining a claim upon some proportion of his income.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now the Greek I thought you " "Of course," said Mr. Bunting, taking out and wiping his spectacles and feeling suddenly very uncomfortable for he had no Greek left in his mind worth talking about; "yes the Greek, of course, may furnish a clue."
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Perhaps no district throughout the wide extent of the intermediate frontiers can furnish a livelier picture of the cruelty and fierceness of the savage warfare of those periods than the country which lies between the head waters of the Hudson and the adjacent lakes.
-- Their entrance into the forest was perfectly unmolested; nor did they encounter any living objects that could either give the alarm, or furnish the intelligence they needed, un-til they came upon the lairs of their own scouts.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The revenue arising from his school was small, and would have been scarcely sufficient to furnish him with daily bread, for he was a huge feeder, and, though lank, had the dilating powers of an anaconda; but to help out his maintenance, he was, according to country custom in those parts, boarded and lodged at the houses of the farmers whose children he instructed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As to the animal's flesh it would furnish excellent food, for in the islands of the Malay Archipelago and elsewhere, it is especially reserved for the table of the native princes.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So rarely is it beheld, that though one and all of them declare it to be the largest animated thing in the ocean, yet very few of them have any but the most vague ideas concerning its true nature and form; notwithstanding, they believe it to furnish to the sperm whale his only food.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And with this, the old lady applied herself to warming up, in a little saucepan, a basin full of broth: strong enough, Oliver thought, to furnish an ample dinner, when reduced to the regulation strength, for three hundred and fifty paupers, at the lowest computation.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The two youngest of the family, Catherine and Lydia, were particularly frequent in these attentions; their minds were more vacant than their sisters', and when nothing better offered, a walk to Meryton was necessary to amuse their morning hours and furnish conversation for the evening; and however bare of news the country in gen-eral might be, they always contrived to learn some from their aunt.
-- The dinner was exceedingly handsome, and there were all the servants and all the articles of plate which Mr. Col-lins had promised; and, as he had likewise foretold, he took his seat at the bottom of the table, by her ladyship's desire, and looked as if he felt that life could furnish nothing great-er.
-- Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.
-- Elizabeth had heard soon after her arrival that Mr. Darcy was expected there in the course of a few weeks, and though there were not many of her acquaintances whom she did not prefer, his coming would furnish one comparatively new to look at in their Rosings parties, and she might be amused in seeing how hopeless Miss Bingley's designs on him were, by his behaviour to his cousin, for whom he was evidently des-tined by Lady Catherine, who talked of his coming with the greatest satisfaction, spoke of him in terms of the highest admiration, and seemed almost angry to find that he had already been frequently seen by Miss Lucas and herself.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This moment my former notions of deliverance darted into my thoughts, for now I found I was likely to have a little ship at my command; and my master being gone, I prepared to furnish myself, not for fishing business, but for a voyage; though I knew not, neither did I so much as con-sider, whither I should steer - anywhere to get out of that place was my desire.
-- Now I wanted nothing but a boat to furnish myself with many things which I foresaw would be very necessary to me.
-- - Now I carried everything into the cave, and began to furnish my house, and set up some pieces of boards like a dresser, to order my victuals upon; but boards began to be very scarce with me; also, I made me another table.
-- My condition began now to be, though not less miserable as to my way of living, yet much easier to my mind: and my thoughts being directed, by a constant reading the Scrip-ture and praying to God, to things of a higher nature, I had a great deal of comfort within, which till now I knew noth-ing of; also, my health and strength returned, I bestirred myself to furnish myself with everything that I wanted, and make my way of living as regular as I could.
-- I found now I had business enough to gather and carry home; and I resolved to lay up a store as well of grapes as limes and lemons, to furnish myself for the wet season, which I knew was approaching.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I furnish the----" "Yes, you pay the rent," said Carrie.
-- Who would furnish the money to move?
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Anyhow, there's one thing there's more honor in getting him out through a lot of difficulties and dangers, where there warn't one of them furnished to you by the people who it was their duty to furnish them, and you had to contrive them all out of your own head.
-- Picks and shovels why, they wouldn't furnish 'em to a king.'
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