lady是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 女士, 夫人,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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- cried the portly Sylvie, who did not recognize the lady of the first visit.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I heard of him first in rather a romantic manner, from a lady who owes to him the happiness of her life.
-- Some years ago he loved a young Russian lady of moderate fortune, and having amassed a consider-able sum in prize-money, the father of the girl consented to the match.
-- 'It was a lady on horseback, accompanied by a country-man as a guide.
-- The lady was dressed in a dark suit and covered with a thick black veil.
-- This lady died, but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia and being immured within the walls of a harem, allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill-suited to the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I do, and a sillier old lady I never met in all my life."
-- But now to their amazement she had become a grown-upyoung lady and quite the most charming one in all the world.
-- But, when Mrs. Wilkes, "a great lady and with a rare gift forsilence," as Gerald characterized her, told her husband one evening, after Gerald's horse had pounded down thedriveway.
-- His wife must be a lady and a ladyof blood, with as many airs and graces as Mrs. Wilkes and the ability to manage Tara as well as Mrs. Wilkes orderedher own domain.
-- Ellen had been given this preparation for marriage which any well-brought-up young lady received, and she alsohad Mammy, who could galvanize the most shiftless negro into energy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had heard of Miss Havisham up town,--everybody for miles round had heard of Miss Havisham up town,--as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion.
-- The voice returned, "Quite right," and the window was shut again, and a young lady came across the court-yard, with keys in her hand.
-- Whether I should have made out this object so soon if there had been no fine lady sitting at it, I cannot say.
-- In an arm-chair, with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see.
-- said the lady at the table.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the door there was a golden key, and when she turned it the door sprang open, and there sat an old lady spinning away very busily.
-- The bear would have liked to go at once, but the wolf held him back by the sleeve, and said: 'No, you must wait un-til the lord and lady Queen have gone away again.'
-- Little does my lady dream Rumpelstiltskin is my name!''
-- said the lady sly-ly.
-- But the queen, now that she thought Snowdrop was dead, believed that she must be the handsomest lady in the land; and she went to her glass and said: 'Tell me, glass, tell me true!
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the girls are twelve years old, which among them is the marriageable age, their par-ents or guardians take them home, with great expressions of gratitude to the professors, and seldom without tears of the young lady and her companions.
-- I should not have dwelt so long upon this particular, if it had not been a point wherein the reputation of a great lady is so nearly concerned, to say nothing of my own; though I then had the honour to be a nardac, which the treasurer himself is not; for all the world knows, that he is only a glumglum, a title inferior by one degree, as that of a marquis is to a duke in England; yet I allow he preceded me in right of his post.
-- These false infor-mations, which I afterwards came to the knowledge of by an accident not proper to mention, made the treasurer show his lady for some time an ill countenance, and me a worse; and although he was at last undeceived and reconciled to her, yet I lost all credit with him, and found my interest de-cline very fast with the emperor himself, who was, indeed, too much governed by that favourite.
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