plug是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 塞子, 栓, 插头, 通电,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Knowledge!I'm plug doc--got chick nor child--nobody--old drunk.
-- Gottlieb twitched out the cotton plug with his little finger, so neatly that the medical students who had complained, "Bacteriology is junk; urinalysis and blood tests are all the lab stuff we need to know," now gave him something of the respect they had for a man who could do card tricks or remove an appendix in seven minutes.
-- He agitated the mouth of the tube in the Bunsen burner, droning, "Every time you take the plug from a tube, flame the mouth of the tube.
-- And he'll learn to chatter Wop and French and everything like a regular native, and his dad and mother'll be so proud!Oh, we'll be a fierce pair of old birds!We never did have any more morals 'n a rabbit, either of us, and probably when we're seventy we'll sit out on the doorstep and smoke pipes and snicker at all the respectable people going by, and tell each other scandalous stories about 'em till they want to take a shot at us, and our boy--he'll wear a plug hat and have a chauffeur--he won't dare to recognize us!"
-- I tell you a plug G.P.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Poor Lazarus there, chattering his teeth against the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters with his shiverings, he might plug up both ears with rags, and put a corn-cob into his mouth, and yet that would not keep out the tempestuous Euroclydon.
-- Yet I don't stop to plug my leak; for who can find it in the deep-loaded hull; or how hope to plug it, even if found, in this life's howling gale?
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I took out the plug and shook out the little dab of quick- silver, and set my teeth in.
-- I had my pipe en a plug er dog-leg, en some matches in my cap, en dey warn't wet, so I 'uz all right.'
-- When they borrow a chaw they don't generly cut it off with a knife, but set the plug in between their teeth, and gnaw with their teeth and tug at the plug with their hands till they get it in two; then some-times the one that owns the tobacco looks mournful at it when it's handed back, and says, sarcastic: 'Here, gimme the CHAW, and you take the PLUG.'
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