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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They managed their immense property with rare ability and uncommon energy.
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:
-- He might claim the property from South America, establish his identity be-fore the British authorities there and so obtain the fortune without ever coming to England at all; or he might adopt an elaborate disguise during the short time that he need be in London; or, again, he might furnish an accomplice with the proofs and papers, putting him in as heir, and retaining a claim upon some proportion of his income.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Your bundle has some importance, however,' continued the clerk, when they had laughed their fill (it was observable that the subject of their mirth joined in the laughter when he saw them laughing); 'for though I dare say it is not stuffed full of friedrichs d'or and louis d'or judge from your cos-tume and gaiters still if you can add to your possessions such a valuable property as a relation like Mrs. General Ep-anchin, then your bundle becomes a significant object at once.
-- A fine fellow he was and had a property of four thousand souls in his day.'
-- 'Oh, I heard that much, my dear fellow!But the thing is so impossibly absurd!A man of property like Evgenie to give IOU's to a money-lender, and to be worried about them!
-- Then it came out that the hedgehog was not theirs, but the property of a schoolmate, one Petroff, who had given them some money to buy Schlosser's History for him, from another schoolfellow who at that moment was driven to raising money by the sale of his books.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When we cast lots, it fell to me to have my dwelling in the sea for evermore; Hades took the darkness of the realms under the earth, while air and sky and clouds were the portion that fell to Jove; but earth and great Olympus are the common property of all.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the books the books that tramp has hidden there are marvels, miracles!But this was not a method, it was an idea, that might lead to a method by which it would be possible, without changing any other property of matter except, in some instances colours to lower the refractive index of a substance, solid or liquid, to that of air so far as all practical purposes are concerned."
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Besides, white men who haven't a place to sleep in are more than likely to be thieves, and I've a good deal of Gov-ernment property on my back.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After he had sufficiently extolled the property of discretion, he undertook to exhibit in what manner its use was applicable to the present situation of their tribe.
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:
-- I felt nothing of the peculiar thrill which it is the property of art to give.
-- She has a bit of property down by Taravao, just before you come to the peninsula, and with copra at the price it is now you could live quite comfortably.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Far be it from me to repine at his doing so; he had an undoubted right to dispose of his own property as he chose, but, in consequence of it, we have been obliged to make large purchases of linen, china, &c. to supply the place of what was taken away.
-- His property here, his place, his house, every thing is in such respectable and excellent condition! and his woods! I have not seen such timber any where in Dorsetshire, as there is now standing in Delaford Hanger! And though, perhaps, Marianne may not seem exactly the person to attract him yet I think it would altogether be advisable for you to have them now frequently staying with you, for as Colonel Brandon seems a great deal at home, nobody can tell what may happen for, when people are much thrown together, and see little of anybody else and it will always be in your power to set her off to advantage, and so forth; in short, you may as well give her a chance You understand me.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His property holdings, as yet, were rather small, but his income was pleasing and his position with Fitzgerald and Moy was fixed.
-- He was referring to some property which he said he had, and which required so much attention, adjustment, and what not, that somehow or other it interfered with his free moral, personal actions.
-- She was secretly somewhat pleased by the fact that much of her husband's property was in her name, a precaution which Hurstwood had taken when his home interests were somewhat more alluring than at present.
-- Somehow he felt evidence, law, the remembrance of all his property which she held in her name, to be shining in her glance.
-- "She has that property in her name," he kept saying to himself.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You want to SELL all your property to me not give it.
-- 'Well, he don't miss any property by it, because he'll get that all right; but he's missed seeing his brother Peter die which he mayn't mind, nobody can tell as to that but his brother would a give anything in this world to see HIM before he died; never talked about nothing else all these three weeks; hadn't seen him since they was boys together and hadn't ever seen his brother William at all that's the deef and dumb one William ain't more than thir- ty or thirty-five.
-- March off like a passel of fools and leave eight or nine thous'n' dol-lars' worth o' property layin' around jest sufferin' to be scooped in?
-- The people that BUYS the property is the suff'rers; because as soon 's it's found out 'at we didn't own it which won't be long after we've slid the sale won't be valid, and it 'll all go back to the estate.
-- Well, blamed if the king didn't bill the house and the nig-gers and all the property for auction straight off sale two days after the funeral; but anybody could buy private be-forehand if they wanted to.
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