Greek是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 希腊的 n. 希腊人,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now the Greek I thought you " "Of course," said Mr. Bunting, taking out and wiping his spectacles and feeling suddenly very uncomfortable for he had no Greek left in his mind worth talking about; "yes the Greek, of course, may furnish a clue."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He called my attention to a convenient deck-chair before the window, and to an array of old books, chiefly, I found, surgical works and editions of the Latin and Greek classics (languages I cannot read with any comfort), on a shelf near the hammock.
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 thought I would go to a little Greek hotel, while I looked about, and I felt I knew where to find one.
-- I'm told he lives with an ugly old Greek woman and has half a dozen scrofulous kids.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "One might get one's Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato," the Very Young Man thought.
-- The German scholars have improved Greek so much."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Greek and Latin historians do not speak favourably of it, and Strabo says it is very dangerous during the Etesian winds and in the rainy season.
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:
-- She sat convulsed with fury and violation, speechless, like a stricken pythoness of the Greek oracle.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into, and got something out of also: unless it be that range of Greek and Latin, and that of French; and those I know one from another: it is as much as you can expect of a poor man's daughter.
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