people是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 人们, 人; [the -,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《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Having purchased the usual quota of shirts and shoes, he took a leisurely promenade about the streets, where crowds of people of many nationalities Europeans, Persians with pointed caps, Banyas with round turbans, Sindes with square bonnets, Parsees with black mitres, and long-robed Armenians were collected.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He gulped slightly; he smiled to show that he was being humorous-- people had been known to misconstrue the Doc's humor.
-- It is the property of the people of the state, and what they want--or what they are told they want--is a mill to turn out men and women who will lead moral lives, play bridge, drive good cars, be enterprising in business, and occasionally mention books, though they are not expected to have time to read them.
-- The few people whom he met were hurrying with midnight timidity.
-- "Yes, I know; it's dreadful the way people don't have ideals about their work.
-- I am told that a great many clever people feel they can keep notes in their heads.
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:
-- What mat-ters is that people would remember it, and that would give them a clue.
-- This house was let out in tiny tenements and was inhabited by working people of all kinds tailors, locksmiths, cooks, Germans of sorts, girls picking up a living as best they could, petty clerks, etc.
-- But, seeing a number of people on the landing, she grew bolder, and opened the door wide.
-- But in spite of this scornful reflection, he was by now looking cheerful as though he were suddenly set free from a terrible burden: and he gazed round in a friendly way at the people in the room.
-- There were few people at the time in the tavern.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You were not equally matched, child- if any two people can be equally matched- and so I asked the question.
-- If people are so silly as to indulge the sentiment,is it my fault?
-- 34CHAPTER IIII Have a ChangeTHE carrier's horse was the laziest horse in the world, I shouldhope, and shuffled along, with his head down, as if he liked tokeep people waiting to whom the packages were directed.
-- said the waiter, still looking at the light through thetumbler, with one of his eyes shut up, 'our people don't like thingsbeing ordered and left.
-- Whether itwas possible for people to see me or not, I always fancied thatsomebody was reading it.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always dis-agreeable; and he was by no means yet reconciled to his own daughter's marrying, nor could ever speak of her but with compassion, though it had been entirely a match of affec-tion, when he was now obliged to part with Miss Taylor too; and from his habits of gentle selfishness, and of being never able to suppose that other people could feel differently from himself, he was very much disposed to think Miss Taylor had done as sad a thing for herself as for them, and would have been a great deal happier if she had spent all the rest of her life at Hartfield.
-- Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them: and though this was not par-ticularly agreeable to Emma herself, she knew it would be so much less so to her father, that she would not have him really suspect such a circumstance as her not being thought perfect by every body.
-- I made the match, you know, four years ago; and to have it take place, and be proved in the right, when so many people said Mr. Weston would never marry again, may comfort me for any thing.'
-- Some people even talked of a promise to his wife on her deathbed, and others of the son and the uncle not letting him.
-- His own stomach could bear nothing rich, and he could nev-er believe other people to be different from himself.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Since then the appellation which I had thought to reserve to the horizons and landscapes of a merely realistic dream-country, has become more and more popular as a practical definition; and the dream-country has, by degrees, solidified into a utilitarian region which people can go to, take a house in, and write to the papers from.
-- On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.
-- "Beating people down?
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