marriage是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 结婚, 婚姻; 结婚仪式,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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If you have heard anything of my unhappy history you will know that I made a rash marriage and had reason to regret it.'
-- Holmes,' she said, 'this man had offered me marriage on condition that I could get a divorce from my husband.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Might he suggest, for instance, such a thing as a marriage between himself and one of the general's daughters?
-- The report was only partially true, the marriage project being only in an embryo condition; but a great change now came over Nastasia Philipovna.
-- He knew well that Nastasia thoroughly understood him and where to wound him and how, and therefore, as the marriage was still only in embryo, Totski decided to con-ciliate her by giving it up.
-- When Totski had approached the general with his re-quest for friendly counsel as to a marriage with one of his daughters, he had made a full and candid confession.
-- But she recognized his love, on the understanding that she bound herself to nothing whatever, and that she reserved the right to say 'no' up to the very hour of the marriage ceremony.
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:
-- His garb of woe suggested that he had lost in one catastrophe every relation he had in the world, even to cousins by marriage twice removed.
-- I should have made Strickland's marriage a long torment from which escape was the only possible issue.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The lady from the Minories recounted a successful course of treatment under which she had placed her own husband, who, from manifesting one month after marriage unequivocal symptoms of the tiger, had by this means become subdued into a perfect lamb.
-- 'I say,' resumed his friend, 'suppose he lives, and I persuaded, or if the word sounds more feasible, forced Nell to a secret marriage with you.
-- It fell upon a smart young fellow enough; and as he made it a preliminary condition that Mrs Jiniwin should be thenceforth an out-pensioner, they lived together after marriage with no more than the average amount of quarrelling, and led a merry life upon the dead dwarf's money.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But Nekhludoff, besides the usual irresoluteness before marriage of people of his age, and who are not passionately in love, had an important reason for withholding his offer of marriage for the time being.
-- This was for marriage generally.
-- So that there were as many reasons for as there were against marriage in general and marrying Missy in particular.
-- His father was not rich, but his mother received as her marriage portion ten thousand acres of land.
-- His marriage to Missy, which but yesterday seemed to be so near, to-day appeared to him absolutely impossible.
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:
-- This was his place, his marriage place.
-- You can see how much marriage is to be trusted to look at your own mother."
-- "If one repents being married, the marriage is at an end," said Birkin.
-- But marriage is neither here nor there, even then.
-- He seems to think that if you marry you can get through marriage into a third heaven, or something all very vague."
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