substitute是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 代替人, 代用品; vt. 代替,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:
-- They say that the llama is substitute for the ox and the sheep, and I should like to know if it is, in an alimentary respect."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is manifest that, pricked by remorse for my client is re-ligious, in his way, and has a conscience, as I shall prove later and desiring to extenuate his sin as far as possible, he has tried six times at least to substitute lay nourishment for clerical.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It seemed to me rather a pretty little creature; and as Montgomery stated that it never destroyed the turf by bur-rowing, and was very cleanly in its habits, I should imagine it might prove a convenient substitute for the common rab-bit in gentlemen's parks.
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:
-- As every word uttered by Natty Bumppo was not to be received as rigid truth, we took the liberty of putting the 'Horican' into his mouth, as the substitute for 'Lake George.'
-- 'Well, sir, is not a substitute clothed with all the power and dignity of him who grants the commission?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They had an excellent taste, and were very nutritious, being something similar to the substance which is sold in England under the name of "Portland sago"; they were also a good substitute for bread, which the settlers in Lincoln Island did not yet possess.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'When my poor husband, her dear father, was alive, if he had ever ventured a cross word to me, I'd have ' The good old lady did not finish the sentence, but she twisted off the head of a shrimp with a vindictiveness which seemed to imply that the action was in some degree a substitute for words.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hindley is a detestable substitute his conduct to Heathcliff is atrocious H. and I are going to rebel we took our initiatory step this evening.
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