destination是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 目的地,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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After an instant, Lord Edward said again, "To my own mind the hypothesis is so plausible, that I have no doubt whatever the event occurred on the coast of Patagonia, but still I will have inquiries made in Glasgow, as to the destination of the BRITANNIA, and we shall know if it is possible she could have been wrecked on those shores."
-- But what would the learned geographer say, when he heard the name and destination of the ship, in which he had taken passage?
-- Destination unknown.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They had al-ready got the length of opening the hearse to take the coffin out, when some brighter genius proposed instead, its being escorted to its destination amidst general rejoicing.
-- Its destination was the old church of Saint Pancras, far off in the fields.
-- The universal watchfulness so encompassed him, that if he had been taken in a net, or were being for-warded to his destination in a cage, he could not have felt his freedom more completely gone.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The new commission for the inquiry into the condition of the native tribes in all its branches had been formed and despatched to its destination with an unusual speed and energy inspired by Alexey Alexandrovitch.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He never took one step too many, and always went to his destination by the shortest cut; he made no superfluous gestures, and was never seen to be moved or agitated.
-- He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment.
-- The Mongolia, thanks to the vigorous exertions of the engineer, seemed likely, so rapid was her speed, to reach her destination considerably within that time.
-- Fix had gone on shore shortly after Mr. Fogg, and his first destination was the headquarters of the Bombay police.
-- They reached their destination on the morning of the 14th of November.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The West End destination of the coach, is theGolden Cross.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The plan of a drain, the change of a fence, the felling of a tree, and the destination of every acre for wheat, turnips, or spring corn, was entered into with as much equality of interest by John, as his cooler manners rendered possible; and if his willing brother ever left him any thing to inquire about, his inquiries even approached a tone of eagerness.
-- At last it was all settled, even to the destination of the parcel.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The destination of the proposed railroad,Tennessee and the West, was clear and definite, but its beginning point in Georgia was somewhat uncertain until, ayear later, an engineer drove a stake in the red clay to mark the southern end of the line, and Atlanta, born Terminus,had begun.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was the afternoon coach by which I had taken my place, and, as winter had now come round, I should not arrive at my destination until two or three hours after dark.
-- We came to Richmond all too soon, and our destination there was a house by the green,--a staid old house, where hoops and powder and patches, embroidered coats, rolled stockings, ruffles and swords, had had their court days many a time.
-- After several times falling short of my destination and as often overshooting it, I came unexpectedly round a corner, upon Mill Pond Bank.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Although it was hard to believe that her retiring for the night could be anything but a form, so severely wide awake were those classical eyes of hers, and so impossible did it seem that her rigid nose could yield to any relaxing influence, yet her manner of sitting, smoothing her uncomfortable, not to say, gritty mittens (they were constructed of a cool fabric like a meat-safe), or of ambling to unknown places of destination with her foot in her cotton stirrup, was so perfectly serene, that most observers would have been constrained to suppose her a dove, embodied by some freak of nature, in the earthly tabernacle of a bird of the hook-beaked order.
-- The way to Sissy's destination led them past the door, and they were going straight towards it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As they went along, certainly one of the party, and probably more than one, thought that Bleeding Heart Yard was no inappropriate destination for a man who had been in official correspondence with my lords and the Barnacles and perhaps had a misgiving also that Britannia herself might come to look for lodgings in Bleeding Heart Yard some ugly day or other, if she over-did the Circumlocution Office.
-- As he approached his destination through the by-streets and water-side ways, that part of London seemed to him an uglier spot at such an hour than he had ever supposed it to be.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If, when she reached her destination he did not alight and attend her baggage for her, it was because, in his own estimation, he had signally failed.
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