secretary是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 秘书， 书记； 部长， 大臣，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：
-- That Provi-dence, however, had put it into the heart of a person who was beyond fear and beyond reproach, to ferret out the na-ture of the prisoner's schemes, and, struck with horror, to disclose them to his Majesty's Chief Secretary of State and most honourable Privy Council.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Excuse me a minute..." A secretary came in, with respectful familiarity and the modest consciousness, characteristic of every secretary, of superiority to his chief in the knowledge of their business; he went up to Oblonsky with some papers, and began, under pretense of asking a question, to explain some objection.
-- The secretary retired in confusion.
-- During the consultation with the secretary Levin had completely recovered from his embarrassment.
-- At dinner time (there were always a few people dining with the Karenins) there arrived an old lady, a cousin of Alexey Alexandrovitch, the chief secretary of the department and his wife, and a young man who had been recommended to Alexey Alexandrovitch for the service.
-- As he was coming away, the doctor chanced to meet on the staircase an acquaintance of his, Sludin, who was secretary of Alexey Alexandrovitch's department.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of the tour, led by Dr. Stout and the umbrella-carrying secretary of the University, the plumpest and most educational of all the bankers stopped near Clif Clawson's dissecting-table, with his derby hat reverently held behind him, and into that hat Clif dropped a pancreas.
-- Dr. Stout and the secretary comforted him; they cleaned the derby and assured him that vengeance should be done on the man who could put a pancreas in a banker's hat.
-- Chapter 10 Dean Silva's secretary looked up delightedly, she hearkened with anticipation.
-- When Gottlieb rambled in, Hunziker motioned the secretary out of existence and drew up a tall Spanish chair.
-- Mr. Tozer came out of the international conference as craftily joyful as any Mr. Secretary Tozer or Lord Tozer in Washington or London: "Fine!Fine!We made him commit himself!Twenty-five, he says.
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：
-- You see that they are a bit worn, but they'll last a couple of months, for it's foreign work and foreign leather; the secretary of the English Embassy sold them last week he had only worn them six days, but he was very short of cash.
-- In one place one hears of a student's robbing the mail on the high road; in another place people of good social position forge false banknotes; in Moscow of late a whole gang has been captured who used to forge lottery tickets, and one of the ringleaders was a lec-turer in universal history; then our secretary abroad was murdered from some obscure motive of gain芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There, the devoted postman on that beatdelivered bushels of letters for me; and there, at in- tervals, Ilaboured through them, like a Home Secretary of State without thesalary.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There, Ellen sat before her tall secretary eachmorning, keeping the accounts of the plantation and listening to the reports of Jonas Wilkerson, the overseer.
-- Scarlett had kissed her mother good-by inthe little office where she sat before the tall secretary with its paper-stuffed pigeonholes.
-- She put the letters back in the lap secretary and closed the lid.
-- Surely, when she entered that room, Mother would again be sittingthere before the secretary and would look up, quill poised, and rise with sweet fragrance and rustling hoops to meet hertired daughter.
-- The dark cavecame to life, the sagging old sofa on which they sat, the tall secretary reaching toward the ceiling with Mother's fragilecarved chair before it, the racks of pigeonholes, still stuffed with papers written in her fine hand, the worn carpet all,all were the same, except that Ellen was not there, Ellen with the faint scent of lemon verbena sachet and the sweetlook in her tip-tilted eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I earnestly hoped and prayed that he might die before the Recorder's Report was made; but, in the dread of his lingering on, I began that night to write out a petition to the Home Secretary of State, setting forth my knowledge of him, and how it was that he had come back for my sake.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My friend Reldresal, principal secretary for private affairs, is, in my opinion, if I am not partial, the second after the treasurer; the rest of the great officers are much upon a par.
-- One morning, about a fortnight after I had obtained my liberty, Reldresal, principal secretary (as they style him) for 50 Gulliver's Travelsprivate affairs, came to my house attended only by one ser-vant.
-- I desired the secretary to present my humble duty to the emperor; and to let him know, 'that I thought it would not become me, who was a foreigner, to interfere with parties; but I was ready, with the hazard of my life, to defend his person and state against all invaders.'
-- But I defy the trea-surer, or his two informers (I will name them, and let them make the best of it) Clustril and Drunlo, to prove that any person ever came to me incognito, except the secretary Rel-dresal, who was sent by express command of his imperial majesty, as I have before related.
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