property是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 财产, 房产, 性质,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- ' respecting the small property of my poor father, whom I never saw so long dead ' Mr. Lorry moved in his chair, and cast a troubled look to-wards the hospital procession of negro cupids.
-- 'This property and France are lost to me,' said the neph-ew, sadly; 'I renounce them.'
-- Stryver was rich; had married a florid widow with property and three boys, who had nothing particularly shining about them but the straight hair of their dumpling heads.
-- There is such an -uneasiness in Paris, that we have actually a run of confidence upon us!Our customers over there, seem not to be able to confide their property to us fast enough.
-- Here is a fellow, who, infected by the most pestilent and blasphemous code of devilry that ever was known, aban-doned his property to the vilest scum of the earth that ever did murder by wholesale, and you ask me why I am sorry that a man who instructs youth knows him?
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They gave out that they knew how to weave stuffs of the most beautiful colors and elaborate patterns, the clothes manu-factured from which should have the wonderful property of remaining invisible to everyone who was unfit for the office he held, or who was extraordinarily simple in character.
-- All the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful property the cloth was to possess; and all were anxious to learn how wise, or how ig-norant, their neighbors might prove to be.
-- These shoes possess the property of instantly transporting him who has them on to the place or the period in which he most wishes to be; every wish, as regards time or place, or state of being, will be immediately fulfilled, and so at last man will be happy, here below.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But after seeing his brother, listening to his conversation with the professor, hearing afterwards the unconsciously patronizing tone in which his brother questioned him about agricultural matters (their mother's property had not been divided, and Levin took charge of both their shares), Levin felt that he could not for some reason begin to talk to him of his intention of marrying.
-- "Oh, a great deal!And I know that he's her favorite; still one can see how chivalrous he is.... Well, for instance, she told me that he had wanted to give up all his property to his brother, that he had done something extraordinary when he was quite a child, saved a woman out of the water.
-- "If it had not been for the distinctive property of anti-nihilistic influence on the side of classical studies, we should have considered the subject more, have weighed the arguments on both sides," said Sergey Ivanovitch with a subtle smile, "we should have given elbow-room to both tendencies.
-- But now we know that these little pills of classical learning possess the medicinal property of anti- nihilism, and we boldly prescribe them to our patients....
-- He maintained that the poverty of Russia arises not merely from the anomalous distribution of landed property and misdirected reforms, but that what had contributed of late years to this result was the civilization from without abnormally grafted upon Russia, especially facilities of communication, as railways, leading to centralization in towns, the development of luxury, and the consequent development of manufactures, credit and its accompaniment of speculation--all to the detriment of agriculture.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is the property of the people of the state, and what they want--or what they are told they want--is a mill to turn out men and women who will lead moral lives, play bridge, drive good cars, be enterprising in business, and occasionally mention books, though they are not expected to have time to read them.
-- He broke every law of property by raiding shops for supplies.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I am well dressed and reckoned not a poor man; the emanci-pation of the serfs hasn't affected me; my property consists chiefly of forests and water meadows.
-- Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin, for instance, who might be said to be the most respectable of all the lodgers, did not appear, though Katerina Ivanovna had the evening before told all the world, that is Amalia Ivanovna, Polenka, Sonia and the Pole, that he was the most generous, noble-hearted man with a large property and vast connections, who had been a friend of her first husband's, and a guest in her father's house, and that he had promised to use all his influence to secure her a 534 Crime and Punishmentconsiderable pension.
-- At their last meeting Svidriga脙炉lov informed Raskolnikov that he had made an arrangement, and a very satisfactory one, for Katerina Ivanovna's chil-dren; that he had, through certain connections, succeeded 614 Crime and Punishmentin getting hold of certain personages by whose help the three orphans could be at once placed in very suitable insti-tutions; that the money he had settled on them had been of great assistance, as it is much easier to place orphans with some property than destitute ones.
-- Poor Marfa Petrovna was awfully weak on the side of flattery, and if I had only cared to, Imight have had all her property settled on me during her lifetime.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Once more he laid hishand upon my shoulder; and then taking his flute and a few booksfrom his desk, and leaving the key in it for his successor, he wentout of the school, with his property under his arm.
-- Master Copperfield, if I might ask you'I understood Mrs.Micawber now, and begged her to make use of me to any extent, Ibegan to dispose of the more portable articles of property that veryevening; and went out on a similar expedition almost everymorning, before I went to Murdstone and Grinby's.
-- 'My dear,' said Mr. Micawber; 'Copperfield,' for sohe had been accustomed to call me of late, 'has a heart to feel forthe distresses of his fellow-creatures when they are behind a cloud,and a head to plan, and a hand to- in short, a general ability todispose of such available property as could be made away with.'
-- He proposed meafterwards; and he, and Mrs. Micawber, and I, took a review of ourpast acquaintance, in the course of which, we sold the property allover again.
-- In this abstruse pursuit; in making an account for Peggotty, of allthe property into which she had come; in arranging all the affairsin an orderly manner; and in being his referee and adviser onevery joint, to our joint delight; I passed the week before thefuneral.
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