connection是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 联系, 连接; 亲戚, 社会关系,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:
-- "In Search of the Castaways," which has also been published as "The Children of Captain Grant" and as "A Voyage Around the World," is perhaps most interesting in connection with the last of these titles.
-- Glenarvan returned to the CASUCHA more uneasy than ever, questioning within himself as to the connection between these sounds and the flight of the guanacos.
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:
-- I have heard your name mentioned in connection with that of your friend.
-- Had the prosaic finding of the coroner not finally put an end to the romantic stories which have been whispered in connection with the affair, it might have been difficult to find a tenant for Baskerville Hall.
-- 'Those are the public facts, Mr. Holmes, in connection with the death of Sir Charles Baskerville.'
-- But now we have to prove the connection between the man and the beast.
-- Again, there was no direct connection between the hound and the man's death.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was found that scarcely any connection ex-isted between himself and Mrs. Epanchin, but the talk, and the opportunity of conversing about her family tree, grati-fied the latter exceedingly, and she rose from the table in great good humour.
-- We may mention that Gania was no longer mentioned in the Epanchin household any more than the prince was; but that a certain circumstance in connection with the fatal evening at Nastasia's house became known to the general, and, in fact, to all the family the very next day.
-- Without Muish-kin's asking her, she informed him that Evgenie Pavlovitch was spending the day in Petersburg, and perhaps would re-main there over tomorrow; and that her husband had also gone to town, probably in connection with Evgenie Pavlov-itch's affairs.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My total ignorance of the connection must plead my apology.'
-- His being such a charming young man, and so rich, and living but three miles from them, were the first points of self-grat-ulation; and then it was such a comfort to think how fond the two sisters were of Jane, and to be certain that they must desire the connection as much as she could do.
-- My brother admires her greatly already; he will have frequent oppor-tunity now of seeing her on the most intimate footing; her relations all wish the connection as much as his own; and a sister's partiality is not misleading me, I think, when I call Charles most capable of engaging any woman's heart.
-- My objections to the marriage were not merely those which I last night acknowledged to have the utmost force of passion to put aside, in my own case; the want of connection could not be so great an evil to my friend as to me.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mrs. Jennings had been anxious to see Colonel Brandon well married, ever since her connection with Sir John first brought him to her knowledge; and she was always anxious to get a good husband for every pretty girl.
-- In her earnest meditations on the contents of the letter, on the depravity of that mind which could dictate it, and probably, on the very different mind of a very different person, who had no other connection whatever with the affair than what her heart gave him with every thing that passed, Elinor forgot the immediate distress of her sister, forgot that she had three letters on her lap yet unread, and so entirely forgot how long she had been in the room, that when on hearing a carriage drive up to the door, she went to the window to see who could be coming so unreasonably early, she was all astonishment to perceive Mrs. Jennings's chariot, which she knew had not been ordered till one.
-- I called her a distant relation; but I am well aware that I have in general been suspected of a much nearer connection with her.
-- A very desirable connection on both sides, and I have not a doubt of its taking place in time.
-- CHAPTER 35Elinor's curiosity to see Mrs. Ferrars was satisfied. She had found in her every thing that could tend to make a farther connection between the families undesirable. She had seen enough of her pride, her meanness, and her determined prejudice against herself, to comprehend all the difficulties that must have perplexed the engagement, and retarded the marriage, of Edward and herself, had he been otherwise free; and she had seen almost enough to be thankful for her OWN sake, that one greater obstacle preserved her from suffering under any other of Mrs. Ferrars's creation, preserved her from all dependence upon her caprice, or any solicitude for her good opinion.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It had not the slightest connection with anything intended on his part, and was spoken at random before he had given it a moment's serious thought.
-- She had never thought of him in connection with money troubles before.
-- He began to worry about the necessity of a new connection and to see impending serious financial straits unless something turned up.
-- He really thought nothing of these little services in connection with their true significance.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The chain fell down, and we opened the door and went in, and shut it, and struck a match, and see the shed was only built against a cabin and hadn't no connection with it; and there warn't no floor to the shed, nor nothing in it but some old rusty played-out hoes and spades and picks and a crippled plow.
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