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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And when we've got all the coal we want, and all the plush furniture, and pianofortes, and the rabbits are all stewed and eaten, and we're all warm and our bellies are filled and we're listening to the young lady performing on the pianoforte what then?
-- "He's doing a private show at Lady Snellgrove's," said the girl.
-- "She was a proud haughty lady when she came into these parts my word, she was that!She mustn't be looked at, and it was worth your life to speak to her."
-- "My dearest Lady Crich," she said, "you are beautiful as an angel on earth.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I began to doubt whether he were a servant or not: his dress and speech were both rude, entirely devoid of the superiority observable in Mr. and Mrs. Heathcliff; his thick brown curls were rough and uncultivated, his whiskers encroached bearishly over his cheeks, and his hands were embrowned like those of a common labourer: still his bearing was free, almost haughty, and he showed none of a domestic's assiduity in attending on the lady of the house.
-- It is strange,' I began, in the interval of swallowing one cup of tea and receiving another 'it is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world as you spend, Mr. Heathcliff; yet, I'll venture to say, that, surrounded by your family, and with your amiable lady as the presiding genius over your home and heart My amiable lady!'
-- Hindley lifted her from her horse, exclaiming delightedly, 'Why, Cathy, you are quite a beauty!I should scarcely have known you: you look like a lady now.
-- Mrs. Dean raised the candle, and I discerned a soft featured face, exceedingly resembling the young lady at the Heights, but more pensive and amiable in expression.
-- Catherine had kept up her acquaintance with the Lintons since her five weeks' residence among them; and as she had no temptation to show her rough side in their company, and had the sense to be ashamed of being rude where she experienced such invariable courtesy, she imposed unwittingly on the old lady and gentleman by her ingenious cordiality; gained the admiration of Isabella, and the heart and soul of her brother: acquisitions that flattered her from the first for she was full of ambition and led her to adopt a double character without exactly intending to deceive any one.
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