Egyptian是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 埃及的n. 埃及人，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He may offer me ten or even twenty times what he has now done, nay not though it be all that he has in the world, both now or ever shall have; he may promise me the wealth of Orcho-menus or of Egyptian Thebes, which is the richest city in the whole world, for it has a hundred gates through each of which two hundred men may drive at once with their chari-ots and horses; he may offer me gifts as the sands of the sea or the dust of the plain in multitude, but even so he shall not move me till I have been revenged in full for the bitter wrong he has done me.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor horses, tortured almost to death, suffered most from this truly Egyptian plague; the flies alighted upon them in large disgusting swarms; and if the coachman got down and scraped them off, hardly a minute elapsed before they were there again.
-- He was considerably heavi-er, but he was well-mannered, and wore a green uniform, which he had by right of birth; he said, moreover, that he belonged to a very ancient Egyptian family, and that in the house where he then was, he was thought much of.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch ordered tea to be brought to the study, and playing with the massive paper- knife, he moved to his easy chair, near which there had been placed ready for him a lamp and the French work on Egyptian hieroglyphics that he had begun.
-- He tried to read, but he could not revive the very vivid interest he had felt before in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
-- After reading a little more of the book on Egyptian hieroglyphics, and renewing his interest in it, Alexey Alexandrovitch went to bed at eleven o'clock, and recollecting as he lay in bed the incident with his wife, he saw it now in by no means such a gloomy light.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dr. Winter's office was above a grocery, in a long "block" of bright red brick stores with an Egyptian cornice--of tin.
-- While you motored by you noticed a canvas Egyptian Water Bottle, mud on wheels and fenders, a spade, two older children leaning perilously out and making tongues at you, the baby's diapers hanging on a line across the tonneau, a torn copy of Snappy Stories, seven lollypop sticks, a jack, a fish-rod, and a rolled tent.
-- Once he rushed into Gottlieb's laboratory with the announcement of the antitoxin, whereupon with affection and several discomforting questions and the present of a box of real Egyptian cigarettes, Gottlieb showed him that he had not considered certain dilutions.
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：
-- Well, then, sir' (Marmeladov suddenly gave a sort of start, raised his head and gazed intently at his lis-tener) 'well, on the very next day after all those dreams, that is to say, exactly five days ago, in the evening, by a cunning trick, like a thief in the night, I stole from Katerina Ivanov-na the key of her box, took out what was left of my earnings, how much it was I have forgotten, and now look at me, all of you!It's the fifth day since I left home, and they are look-ing for me there and it's the end of my employment, and my uniform is lying in a tavern on the Egyptian bridge.
-- It was in those days, that very year I believe, the 'disgraceful action of the Age' took place (you know, 'The Egyptian Nights,' that public reading, you remember?
-- And in the fourth or fifth century she would have walked away into the Egyptian desert and would have stayed there thirty years living on roots and ecstasies and visions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I had groped my way, blindly, through these difficulties,and had mastered the alphabet, which was an Egyptian Temple initself, there then appeared a procession of new horrors, calledarbitrary characters; the most despotic characters I have everknown; who insisted, for instance, that a thing like the beginning ofa cobweb, meant expectation, and that a pen-and-ink sky-rocketstood for disadvantageous.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, whether this passage were miraculous or not, the Israelites, nevertheless, crossed there to reach the Promised Land, and Pharaoh's army perished precisely on that spot; and I think that excavations made in the middle of the sand would bring to light a large number of arms and instruments of Egyptian origin."
-- "Then you are wrong, Master Land," I continued; "this low coast which rounds off to the south is the Egyptian coast.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At Birkin's table was a girl with dark, soft, fluffy hair cut short in the artist fashion, hanging level and full almost like the Egyptian princess's.
-- Her appearance was simple and complete, really beautiful, because of her regularity and form, her soft dark hair falling full and level on either side of her head, her straight, small, softened features, Egyptian in the slight fulness of their curves, her slender neck and the simple, rich-coloured smock hanging on her slender shoulders.
-- It was difficult to believe one was not mad, that one was not a figure in the hall of kings in some Egyptian tomb, where the dead all sat immemorial and tremendous.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The abrupt character of the slopes momentarily increased, but these remarkable stone steps, a little less difficult than those of the Egyptian pyramids, were the one simple natural means by which we were enabled to proceed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She took her hands from the desk; folded them in her lap; and sat looking towards the fire, with the impenetrability of an old Egyptian sculpture.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One way and another, it has begotten events so remarkable in themselves, and so continuously momentous in their sequential issues, that whaling may well be regarded as that Egyptian mother, who bore offspring themselves pregnant from her womb.
-- That it was only then, on the homeward voyage, after the encounter, that the final monomania seized him, seems all but certain from the fact that, at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified by his delirium, that his mates were forced to lace him fast, even there, as he sailed, raving in his hammock.
-- But not alone has this Leviathan left his pre-adamite traces in the stereotype plates of nature, and in limestone and marl bequeathed his ancient bust; but upon Egyptian tablets, whose antiquity seems to claim for them an almost fossiliferous character, we find the unmistakable print of his fin.
-- Because I cannot understand how it is, that while the Egyptian mummies that were buried thousands of years before even Pliny was born, do not measure so much in their coffins as a modern Kentuckian in his socks; and while the cattle and other animals sculptured on the oldest Egyptian and Nineveh tablets, by the relative proportions in which they are drawn, just as plainly prove that the high-bred, stall-fed, prize cattle of Smithfield, not only equal, but far exceed in magnitude the fattest of Pharaoh's fat kine; in the face of all this, I will not admit that of all animals the whale alone should have degenerated.
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