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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Well, Helena, dear; those people have no heart!"
-- In short, they assigned all the reasons that people invent who have made up their minds to refuse.
-- "Very well, then," exclaimed little Robert, "I'll go and speak to those people myself, and we'll see if they—" He did not complete his sentence, for his sister stopped him; but his clenched fists showed his intentions were the reverse of pacific.
-- But before starting, a touching ceremony was witnessed by the good people of Glasgow.
-- His eyes were concealed by enormous round spectacles, and in his look was that peculiar indecision which is common to nyctalopes, or people who have a peculiar construction of the eye, which makes the sight imperfect in the day and better at night.
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:
-- Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
-- You say that be-fore Sir Charles Baskerville's death several people saw this apparition upon the moor?'
-- 'Three people did.'
-- 'We know now that the people who are so interested in our friend have not settled down in his own hotel.
-- I have ample evidence that you are being dogged in London, and amid the millions of this great city it is dif-ficult to discover who these people are or what their object can be.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The wearer of this cloak was a young fellow, also of about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, slightly above the middle height, very fair, with a thin, pointed and very light coloured beard; his eyes were large and blue, and had an in-tent look about them, yet that heavy expression which some people affirm to be a peculiarity.
-- They are people who know everyone that is, they know where a man is employed, what his salary is, whom he knows, whom he married, what money his wife had, who are his cousins, and second cousins, etc., etc.
-- I was a month or two with Lihachof after his father died, your excellency, and while he was knocking about he's in the debtor's prison now I was with him, and he couldn't do a thing without Lebedeff; and I got to know Nastasia Philipovna and several people at that time.'
-- Oh, no!He takes her to his box at the opera at the French theatre of an evening, and the officers and people all look at her and say, 'By Jove, there's the famous Nastasia Philipovna!'
-- And yet if these good people could only have had a peep into the mind of this excellent fellow who 'knew his place' so well!The fact is that, in spite of his knowledge of the world and his really remarkable abilities, he always liked to appear to be carrying out other people's ideas rather than his own.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the people themselves, and all day long the pyres of the dead were burning.
-- Still I will give her up if I must, for I would have the people live, not die; but you must find me a prize instead, or I alone among the Argives shall be without one.
-- You are strong, and have a goddess for your mother; but Agamemnon is stronger than you, for he has more people under him.
-- Order other people about, not me, for I shall obey no longer.
-- But the son of Atreus bade the people purify them-selves; so they purified themselves and cast their filth into the sea.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At Gleeson's corner he saw Hall, who had recently married the stranger's hostess at the "Coach and Horses," and who now drove the Iping conveyance, when occasional people required it, to Sidderbridge Junction, coming towards him on his return from that place.
-- When asked what an experimental investigator was, she would say with a touch of superiority that most educated people knew such things as that, and would thus explain that he "discovered things."
-- These consisted for the most part in looking very hard at the stranger whenever they met, or in asking people who had never seen the stranger, leading questions about him.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The streets were filled with people running to and fro about their tasks.
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