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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- N February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by Ocollision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888 that is eleven months and four days after my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gen-tleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3' S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open boat of which the name was illegible, but which is supposed to have belonged to the missing schooner Ipecacuanha.
-- Subsequently he alleged that his mind was a blank from the moment of his escape from the Lady Vain.
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:
-- The tresses of this lady were shining and black, like the plumage of the raven.
-- Magua, the lady with whom you wish to speak, is here.'
-- The outer branch, near the prints of one of the horses, was bent upward, as a lady breaks a flower from its stem, but all the rest were ragged and broken down, as if the strong hand of a man had been tearing them!
-- She was the daughter of a gentleman of those isles, by a lady whose misfortune it was, if you will,' said the old man, proudly, 'to be descended, remotely, from that unfortunate class who are so basely enslaved to administer to the wants of a luxurious people.
-- 'Stay lady stay,' called Gamut, after the unconscious Cora.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In this enterprise, however, he had more real difficulties than generally fell to the lot of a knight-errant of yore, who seldom had anything but giants, enchanters, fiery dragons, and such like easily conquered adversaries, to contend with and had to make his way mere-ly through gates of iron and brass, and walls of adamant to the castle keep, where the lady of his heart was confined; all which he achieved as easily as a man would carve his way to the centre of a Christmas pie; and then the lady gave him her hand as a matter of course.
-- the lady of his heart was his partner in the dance, and smiling graciously in reply to all his amorous oglings; while Brom Bones, sorely smitten with love and jealousy, sat brooding by himself in one corner.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I wondered as I preceded him downstairs what had happened to the little lady in the tea-shop.
-- But she could not get over the idea that to earn her living was somewhat undignified, and she was inclined to remind you that she was a lady by birth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In her bower she was, but not alone, for besides the old lady her mother of whom mention has recently been made, there were present some half-dozen ladies of the neighborhood who had happened by a strange accident (and also by a little understanding among themselves) to drop in one after another, just about tea-time.
-- Moved by these considerations, a stout lady opened the proceedings by inquiring, with an air of great concern and sympathy, how Mr Quilp was; whereunto Mr Quilp's wife's mother replied sharply, 'Oh!He was well enough nothing much was every the matter with him and ill weeds were sure to thrive.'
-- '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.
-- One lady (a widow) was quite certain she should stab him if he hinted at it.
-- and yet for some hidden reason they were all angry with the widow, and each lady whispered in her neighbour's ear that it was very plain that said widow thought herself the person referred to, and what a puss she was!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She found such a place with a lady who was living with her two student boys.
-- In one of these intelligence offices she once met a lady richly dressed and adorned with diamonds.
-- The lady received Maslova affectionately, treated her to choice cakes and sweet wine, while she dispatched her servant somewhere with a note.
-- During a recess the same old lady from whom the ingenious attorney managed to win her property in favor of his shrewd client, came out of the court-room.
-- The old lady was stout, in smart attire, and with large flowers on her hat.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'This young lady loves you with an H,' the King said, introducing Alice in the hope of turning off the Messenger's attention from himself but it was no use the Anglo-Saxon attitudes only got more extraordinary every moment, while the great eyes rolled wildly from side to side.
-- 'Quite right,' said the King: 'this young lady saw him too.
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:
-- "It's all that Lady of Shalott business," he said, in his strong abstract voice.
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