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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was only latterly that people had begun to call Gabriel "Farmer" Oak.
-- To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction every kind of evidence in the logician's list have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It would be impossible to give an idea of the old, rotten, shaky, cranky, worm-eaten, halt, maimed, one-eyed, rickety, and ramshackle condition of the furniture without an exhaustive description, which would delay the progress of the story to an extent that impatient people would not pardon.
-- There were usually eighteen people at dinner, and there was room, if need be, for twenty at Mme.
-- He might be seen any day sailing like a gray shadow along the walks of the Jardin des Plantes, on his head a shabby cap, a cane with an old yellow ivory handle in the tips of his thin fingers; the outspread skirts of his threadbare overcoat failed to conceal his meagre figure; his breeches hung loosely on his shrunken limbs; the thin, blue-stockinged legs trembled like those of a drunken man; there was a notable breach of continuity between the dingy white waistcoat and crumpled shirt frills and the cravat twisted about a throat like a turkey gobbler's; altogether, his appearance set people wondering whether this outlandish ghost belonged to the audacious race of the sons of Japhet who flutter about on the Boulevard Italien.
-- Vautrin (the man of forty with the dyed whiskers) marked a transition stage between these two young people and the others.
-- She expended no small amount of ingenuity in a sort of weeding process of her lodgers, announcing her intention of receiving henceforward none but people who were in every way select.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The infant had been 28 Frankensteinplaced with these good people to nurse: they were better off then.
-- Now, dear Victor, I dare say you wish to be indulged in a little gossip concerning the good people of Geneva.
-- I found that these people possessed a method of communicat-ing their experience and feelings to one another by articulate sounds.
-- These amiable people to whom I go have never seen me and know little of me.
-- But a blight had come over my existence, and I only visited these people for the sake of the information they might give me on the subject in which my interest was so terribly profound.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They had the vigor and alertness of country people who have spent all their lives inthe open and troubled their heads very little with dull things in books.
-- I feel sorry for her, but I don't like people I've got to feel sorry for.
-- It was just that Yankee stepmother who squalled and said I was a wildbarbarian and decent people weren't safe around uncivilized Southerners."
-- Most small people who take themselves seriously are a little ridiculous; but the bantam cock is respected in thebarnyard, and so it was with Gerald.
-- "Our people and the Wilkes are different," he went on slowly, fumbling for words.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- People are put in the Hulks because they murder, and because they rob, and forge, and do all sorts of bad; and they always begin by asking questions.
-- Since that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror.
-- On every rail and gate, wet lay clammy, and the marsh mist was so thick, that the wooden finger on the post directing people to our village--a direction which they never accepted, for they never came there--was invisible to me until I was quite close under it.
-- Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
-- Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then he went his way, and in the evening came to the village where the two inns were; and in one of these were people singing, and dancing, and feasting; but the other looked very dirty, and poor.
-- And there he heard a great noise and uproar; and when he asked what was the matter, the people said, 'Two men are going to be hanged.'
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