Indian是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 印度的 n. 印度人,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Only eighty days, now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened.
-- "Directly from Brindisi; she takes on the Indian mails there, and she left there Saturday at five p.m. Have patience, Mr.
-- IN WHICH THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS TO THE DESIGNS OF PHILEAS FOGGThe distance between Suez and Aden is precisely thirteen hundred and ten miles, and the regulations of the company allow the steamers one hundred and thirty-eight hours in which to traverse it.
-- The greater part of the passengers from Brindisi were bound for India some for Bombay, others for Calcutta by way of Bombay, the nearest route thither, now that a railway crosses the Indian peninsula.
-- He gazed with wonder upon the fortifications which make this place the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the vast cisterns where the English engineers were still at work, two thousand years after the engineers of Solomon.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And to various billboard-advertising beauty companies they sold millions of bottles of a complexion- cream guaranteed to turn a Canadian Indian guide as lily-fair as the angels.
-- McGurk would slip away from a conference affecting the commerce of a whole West Indian island to sit on a high stool, silent, and watch Gottlieb work.
-- But everyone knew that the West Indian climate prevented plague.
-- She insisted on conveying information to him, from the West Indian guide-book which she had earnestly bought.
-- At home dinner he never cared what he ate (though he did care what he drank), which at Penrith Lodge was desirable, in view of Leora's efforts to combine the views of Wheatsylvania with the standards of West Indian servants and the absence of daily deliveries.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To be surehe had nothing to do with any other part of the world, and had agood deal to do with that part; being entirely in the Indian trade,whatever that was (I had floating dreams myself concerninggolden shawls and elephants' teeth); having been at Calcutta in hisyouth; and designing now to go out there again, in the capacity of aresident partner.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The cow standing erect was of the Devon breed, and was encased in a tight warm hide of rich Indian red, as absolutely uniform from eyes to tail as if the animal had been dipped in a dye of that colour, her long back being mathematically level.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He said that he was wearing away his time fruitlessly where he was, that letters from the friends he had formed in London desired his return to complete the negotiation they had entered into for his Indian enterprise.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gerald had lived in Savannah long enough to acquire a viewpoint of the Coast that all of therest of the state was backwoods, with an Indian lurking in every thicket.
-- Indian blood was plain in her features, overbalancing the negroid characteristics.
-- They built their fine homes on Whitehall and Washingtonstreets and along the high ridge of land on which countless generations of moccasined Indian feet had beaten a pathcalled the Peachtree Trail.
-- Any prisoner who will take the oath of allegiance and enlist for Indian service for two years willbe released and sent West.
-- Inthe smoky, uncertain light, she seemed thinner than when Scarlett last saw her and the Indian blood was more evidentin her face.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I shall not trouble the reader with a par-ticular description of my own mechanics; let it suffice to say, that in six weeks time with the help of the sorrel nag, who performed the parts that required most labour, I finished a sort of Indian canoe, but much larger, covering it with the skins of Yahoos, well stitched together with hempen threads of my own making.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then some Indian colonel took a fancy to him, and he was made a lieu-tenant.
-- They trailed on, still in Indian file.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Like a well, like a vault, like a tomb, the prison had no knowledge of the brightness outside, and would have kept its polluted atmosphere intact in one of the spice islands of the Indian ocean.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Amy's chief delight was an Indian cabinet, full of queer drawers, little pigeonholes, and secret places, in which were kept all sorts of ornaments, some precious, some merely curious, all more or less an-tique.
-- He might just as well have turned a somersault and uttered an Indian war whoop, for his face was so full of suppressed excitement and his voice so treacherously joyful that every-one jumped up, though he only said, in a queer, breathless voice, 'Here's another Christmas present for the March family.'
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