castle是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 城堡; (国际象棋中的) 车,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below stood the golden cage, and the three golden apples that had been lost were lying close by it.
-- You must go straight on till you come to the castle where the horse stands in his stall: by his side will lie the groom fast asleep and snoring: take away the horse quietly, but be sure to put the old leathern saddle upon him, and not the golden one that is close by it.'
-- All went right: then the fox said, 'When you come to the castle where the bird is, I will stay with the princess at the door, and you will ride in and speak to the king; and when he sees that it is the right horse, he will bring out the bird; but you must sit still, and say that you want to look at it, to see whether it is the true golden bird; and when you get it into your hand, ride away.'
-- 17JORINDA AND JORINDEL here was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of Ta deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Stephen, whose way had been in the contrary direction, turned about, and betook himself as in duty bound, to the red brick castle of the giant Bounderby.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Our meal concluded, we went to the Kongens-Nye-Torw; to the king's magnificent palace; to the beautiful bridge over the canal near the Museum; to the immense cenotaph of Thorwaldsen with its hideous naval groups; to the castle of Rosenberg; and to all the other lions of the place-none of which my uncle even saw, so absorbed was he in his anticipated triumphs.
-- The fact is, the castle is much later than the time of the heroic prince of Denmark.
-- The castle of Kronborg soon disappeared in the murky atmosphere, as well as the tower of Helsinborg, which raises its head on the Swedish Bank.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The powerful old castle was a ruin, yet it hung its bulk on the low sky-line, over the black plumes and the white that waved on the damp air below.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The airy folly of a boy's love had found its way even into that house, and he had been as wretched under its hopelessness as if the house had been a castle of romance.
-- A Castle in the AirManifold are the cares of wealth and state.
-- It was evident that he had a very large castle in hand.
-- All day long he was running towers up, taking towers down, adding a wing here, putting on a battlement there, looking to the walls, strengthening the defences, giving ornamental touches to the interior, making in all respects a superb castle of it.
-- As he strolled back to his hotel afterwards, he carried his head high: having plainly got up his castle now to a much loftier altitude than the two square towers of Notre Dame.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Act third was the castle hall, and here Hagar appeared, having come to free the lovers and finish Hugo.
-- One day, as he went prancing down a quiet street, he saw at the window of a ruinous castle the lovely face.
-- At last he resolved to get into the castle and ask how he could help them.
-- Could swim like a duck, paddled round the castle till he came to a little door guarded by two stout fel-lows, knocked their heads together till they cracked like a couple of nuts, then, by a trifling exertion of his prodigious strength, he smashed in the door, went up a pair of stone steps covered with dust a foot thick, toads as big as your fist, and spiders that would frighten you into hysterics, MIss March.
-- laughed the ghost, and having peeped through the keyhole at the princesses spinning away for dear life, the evil spirit picked up her victim and put him in a large tin box, where there were eleven other knights packed together without their heads, like sardines, who all rose and began to...' 'Dance a hornpipe,' cut in Fred, as Jo paused for breath, 'and, as they danced, the rubbishy old castle turned to a man-of-war in full sail.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He has a great pack on him like a peddler; or you might call him the Elephant and Castle whale.
-- Black Letter tells me that Sir Martin Frobisher on his return from that voyage, when Queen Bess did gallantly wave her jewelled hand to him from a window of Greenwich Palace, as his bold ship sailed down the Thames; "when Sir Martin returned from that voyage," saith Black Letter, "on bended knees he presented to her highness a prodigious long horn of the Narwhale, which for a long period after hung in the castle at Windsor."
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When I came to my castle (for so I think I called it ever after this), I fled into it like one pursued.
-- Now I began to take courage, and to peep abroad again, for I had not stirred out of my castle for three days and nights, so that I began to starve for provisions; for I had little or nothing within doors but some barley-cakes and water; then I knew that my goats wanted to be milked too, which usually was my evening diversion: and the poor crea-tures were in great pain and inconvenience for want of it; and, indeed, it almost spoiled some of them, and almost dried up their milk.
-- two fowling-pieces - for I had three in all - and three mus-kets - for of them I had eight in all; so I kept in my castle only five, which stood ready mounted like pieces of cannon on my outmost fence, and were ready also to take out upon any expedition.
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