pilot是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 飞行员, 试验,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:
-- The wood-man does more by skill than by brute force; by skill the pilot guides his storm-tossed barque over the sea, and so by skill one driver can beat another.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On Sunday, October 20th, towards noon, they came in sight of the Indian coast: two hours later the pilot came on board.
-- The pilot went on board at six, and took his place on the bridge, to guide the Rangoon through the channels to the port of Hong Kong.
-- The pilot probably does not know to this day why his responses won him this enthusiastic greeting.
-- The pilot walked away a little distance, and gazed out to sea, evidently struggling between the anxiety to gain a large sum and the fear of venturing so far.
-- The pilot now returned, shuffling his hat in his hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I couldpass a reasonably good examination already, as a pilot in thesewaters, I think.'
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:
-- Twenty times they thought the whirl-ing eddies were sweeping them to destruction, when the masterhand of their pilot would bring the bows of the ca-noe to stem the rapid.
-- When the pilot chosen for the task of guiding the canoe had taken his station, the whole band plunged again into the river, the vessel glided down the current, and in a few moments the captives found themselves on the south bank of the stream, nearly opposite to the point where they had struck it the preceding evening.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It just wasn't believable that he could talk so blithely of leaving her here on this dark road with a woman who might bedying, a new-born infant, a foolish black wench and a frightened child, leaving her to pilot them through miles ofbattle fields and stragglers and Yankees and fire and God knows what.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a cabin measuring six feet square, very much like that occupied by the pilot on the steamboats of the Mississippi or Hudson.
-- At a simple gesture, the pilot modified the course of the Nautilus every instant.
-- Conseil, Ned Land, and I took our places before the window in the saloon, and Captain Nemo joined the pilot in his cage to work his apparatus as an engine of destruction.
-- The iron balustrade around the platform was lowered, and the lantern and pilot cages were pushed within the shell until they were flush with the deck.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That was, in other words, that this great statesman was always yet to be told that it behoved the Pilot of the ship to do anything but prosper in the private loaf and fish trade ashore, the crew being able, by dint of hard pumping, to keep the ship above water without him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Yes, and I think it will last,' added Mrs. March, with the restful expression of a pilot who has brought a ship safely into port.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The rest of his toilet was soon achieved, and he proudly marched out of the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey jacket, and sporting his harpoon like a marshal's baton.
-- When he entered I observed that he carried no umbrella, and certainly had not come in his carriage, for his tarpaulin hat ran down with melting sleet, and his great pilot cloth jacket seemed almost to drag him to the floor with the weight of the water it had absorbed.
-- Shipmates, it is a two-stranded lesson; a lesson to us all as sinful men, and a lesson to me as a pilot of the living God.
-- And now how gladly would I come down from this mast-head and sit on the hatches there where you sit, and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads me that other and more awful lesson which Jonah teaches to me, as a pilot of the living God.
-- "This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had so much presence of mind, as well as breath left, that seeing myself nearer the mainland than I expected, I got upon my feet, and endeav-oured to make on towards the land as fast as I could before another wave should return and take me up again; but I soon found it was impossible to avoid it; for I saw the sea come after me as high as a great hill, and as furious as an enemy, which I had no means or strength to contend with: my business was to hold my breath, and raise myself upon the water if I could; and so, by swimming, to preserve my breathing, and pilot myself towards the shore, if possible, my greatest concern now being that the sea, as it would car-ry me a great way towards the shore when it came on, might not carry me back again with it when it gave back towards the sea.
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'm the captain and the owner and the mate and the pilot and watchman and head deck-hand; and some- times I'm the freight and passengers.
-- Often they do that and try to see how close they can come without touch-ing; sometimes the wheel bites off a sweep, and then the pilot sticks his head out and laughs, and thinks he's mighty smart.
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