雅思高频词汇【headquarters】

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发布时间:2022-01-06 03:00:02

 

headquarters是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 司令部, 指挥部; 总部, 总局,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。

 

辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- It makes brick, it sells groceries wholesale, and it is the headquarters of the Cornbelt Co-operative Insurance Company.

 

玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- Here along Peachtree Street and near-by streets were the headquarters of the various army departments, eachoffice swarming with uniformed men, the commissary, the signal corps, the mail service, the railway transport, theprovost marshal.

-- The sidewalks were crowded with men in uniform, bearing the insignia of all ranks and allservice branches; the narrow street was jammed with vehicles carriages, buggies, ambulances, covered army wagonswith profane drivers swearing as the mules struggled through the ruts; gray-clad couriers dashed spattering through thestreets from one headquarters to another, bearing orders and telegraphic dispatches; convalescents limped about oncrutches, usually with a solicitous lady at either elbow; bugle and drum and barked orders sounded from the drill fieldswhere the recruits were being turned into soldiers; and with her heart in her throat, Scarlett had her first sight ofYankee uniforms, as Uncle Peter pointed with his whip to a detachment of dejected-looking bluecoats beingshepherded toward the depot by a squad of Confederates with fixed bayonets, to entrain for the prison camp.

-- It was said that he was at the head of a combine worth more than a million dollars, withWilmington as its headquarters for the purpose of buying blockade goods on the docks.

-- On the third of July, a sudden silence fell on the wires from the north, a silence that lasted till midday of thefourth when fragmentary and garbled reports began to trickle into headquarters in Atlanta.

-- "I came to tell you ladies," he said loudly, "that I have been to headquarters and the first casualty lists are comingin."

 

列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- While passing the dimly-lighted court-yard from the officers' headquarters to "No.

 

儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:

-- This was Fix, one of the detectives who had been dispatched from England in search of the bank robber; it was his task to narrowly watch every passenger who arrived at Suez, and to follow up all who seemed to be suspicious characters, or bore a resemblance to the description of the criminal, which he had received two days before from the police headquarters at London.

-- Fix had gone on shore shortly after Mr. Fogg, and his first destination was the headquarters of the Bombay police.

 

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