queen是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 女王, 皇后, 王后,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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On 15th of December, we left to the east the bewitching group of the Societies and the graceful Tahiti, queen of the Pacific.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her eyes closed wearily, a peace came over her face, she looked like a queen in repose.
-- Alexander the up-to-date host, so bloodlessly free-and-easy, Fr脙陇ulein so prettily chiming in just as she should, the little Italian Countess taking notice of everybody, only playing her little game, objective and cold, like a weasel watching everything, and extracting her own amusement, never giving herself in the slightest; then Miss Bradley, heavy and rather subservient, treated with cool, almost amused contempt by Hermione, and therefore slighted by everybody how known it all was, like a game with the figures set out, the same figures, the Queen of chess, the knights, the pawns, the same now as they were hundreds of years ago, the same figures moving round in one of the innumerable permutations that make up the game.
-- She too was the awful, arrogant queen of life, as if she were a queen bee on whom all the rest depended.
-- I was no more myself to him, than I was Queen Victoria.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At fifteen she was the queen of the country side; she had no peer; and she did turn out a haughty, headstrong creature!I own I did not like her, after infancy was past; and I vexed her frequently by trying to bring down her arrogance: she never took an aversion to me, though.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Queen gasped, and sat down: the rapid journey through the air had quite taken away her breath and for a minute or two she could do nothing but hug the little Lily in silence.
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