memory是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 记忆, 记忆力; 回忆; 存储(器),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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Accordingly, he went up to Thalcave, and tried to talk to him by the help of the few Spanish words his memory could muster, though their conversation was often interrupted by one or the other having to fire a shot.
-- The dried beef, hard eggs, grilled MOJARRAS, sparrows, and roast HILGUEROS, made one of those gala feasts the memory of which is imperishable.
-- "Then, if my memory serves me right, we must be eighty miles from it, for the peak of Tristan, seven thousand feet high, is visible at that distance."
-- "It is yours, Paganel," replied the Major, "and I am very sorry for it; but your memory might gain an armory by such feats."
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Three of them ran something like the following, but I do not pretend to quote: SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN TALBOT, Who, at the age of eighteen, was lost overboard, Near the Isle of Desolation, off Patagonia, November 1st, 1836.
-- THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS SISTER.
-- SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT LONG, WILLIS ELLERY, NATHAN COLEMAN, WALTER CANNY, SETH MACY, AND SAMUEL GLEIG, Forming one of the boats' crews OF THE SHIP ELIZA Who were towed out of sight by a Whale, On the Off-shore Ground in the PACIFIC, December 31st, 1839.
-- SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF The late CAPTAIN EZEKIEL HARDY, Who in the bows of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan, August 3d, 1833.
-- THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS WIDOW.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For the rest of the day, he was shut up in the back kitchen, in company with a pump and a slice of bread; and at night, Mrs. Sowerberry, after making various remarks outside the door, by no means complimentary to the memory of his mother, looked into the room, and, amidst the jeers and pointings of Noah and Charlotte, ordered him upstairs to his dismal bed.
-- Thus, a strain of gentle music, or the rippling of water in a silent place, or the odour of a flower, or the mention of a familiar word, will sometimes call up sudden dim remembrances of scenes that never were, in this life; which vanish like a breath; which some brief memory of a happier existence, long gone by, would seem to have awakened; which no voluntary exertion of the mind can ever recall.
-- When Mr. Bumble had scrupulously examined the coins, to see that they were genuine, and had put them up, with much satisfaction, in his waistcoat-pocket, he went on: 'Carry your memory back--let me see--twelve years, last winter.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Dear Sir, 'The disagreement subsisting between yourself and my late honoured father always gave me much uneasiness, and since I have had the misfortune to lose him, I have frequent-ly wished to heal the breach; but for some time I was kept back by my own doubts, fearing lest it might seem disre-spectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom it had always pleased him to be at vari-ance. 'There, Mrs.
-- He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance, but that is all.
-- He was storing his memory with anecdotes and noble names.
-- Elizabeth was pleased to find his memory so exact; and he afterwards took occasion to ask her, when unattend-ed to by any of the rest, whether ALL her sisters were at Longbourn.
-- But in such cases as these, a good memory is unpardonable.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In a little time I be-gan to speak to him; and teach him to speak to me: and first, I let him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life: I called him so for the memory of the time.
-- We stayed no less than twenty days at Pampeluna; when (seeing the winter coming on, and no likelihood of its being better, for it was the severest win-ter all over Europe that had been known in the memory of man) I proposed that we should go away to Fontarabia, and there take shipping for Bordeaux, which was a very little voyage.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She had already repeated her own history to Elinor three or four times; and had Elinor's memory been equal to her means of improvement, she might have known very early in their acquaintance all the particulars of Mr. Jennings's last illness, and what he said to his wife a few minutes before he died.
-- "You surprise me; I should think it must nearly have escaped her memory by THIS time."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He went over in memory the names of a number of women he knew, and finally fixed on one, largely because of the convenient location of her home on the West Side, and promised himself that as he came out that evening he would see her.
-- "Well," said Drouet, whose memory for such things was not the best, "it's about a girl who gets kidnapped by a couple of crooks--a man and a woman that live in the slums.
-- The humour of the memory fled in an instant and he felt ashamed.
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