name是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 名字(称/声/义) vt. 给…取名; 列举; 提名,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'And the name itself ''By George!'
-- said Mr Meagles, 'I was forgetting the name itself.
-- Now, Harriet we changed into Hattey, and then into Tatty, because, as practical people, we thought even a playful name might be a new thing to her, and might have a softening and affectionate kind of effect, don't you see?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So you must try to be contented with making your name boyish, and playing brother to us girls,' said Beth, stroking the rough head with a hand that all the dish washing and dusting in the world could not make ungentle in its touch.
-- Her father called her 'Little Miss Tranquility', and the name suited her excel-lently, for she seemed to live in a happy world of her own, only venturing out to meet the few whom she trusted and loved.
-- 'It is only another name for trying to be good, and the story may help us, for though we do want to be good, it's hard work and we forget, and don't do our best.'
-- 'My first name is theodore, but I don't like it, for the fel-lows called me Dora, so I made the say Laurie instead.'
-- asked Laurie, looking as if he thought the name suited her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true."
-- But it is a common name in Nantucket, they say, and I suppose this Peter here is an emigrant from there.
-- Within are shabby shelves, ranged round with old decanters, bottles, flasks; and in those jaws of swift destruction, like another cursed Jonah (by which name indeed they called him), bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death.
-- "Queequeg! in the name of goodness, Queequeg, wake!"
-- In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- OLIVER TWIST OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS BY CHARLES DICKENS CHAPTER I TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
-- For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.
-- Mrs. Mann raised her hands in astonishment; but added, after a moment's reflection, 'How comes he to have any name at all, then?'
-- We name our fondlings in alphabetical order.
-- 'I never heard the name before.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His answer to this sudden attack was delightful to their mother's ear: 'I am perfectly ready, I assure you, to keep my engage-ment; and when your sister is recovered, you shall, if you please, name the very day of the ball.
-- I do not remember her name among the ladies at court.'
-- She could think of nothing but of Mr. Wickham, and of what he had told her, all the way home; but there was not time for her even to mention his name as they went, for neither Lydia nor Mr. Collins were once silent.
-- In as short a time as Mr. Collins's long speeches would al-low, everything was settled between them to the satisfaction of both; and as they entered the house he earnestly entreat-ed her to name the day that was to make him the happiest of men; and though such a solicitation must be waived for the present, the lady felt no inclination to trifle with his happi-ness.
-- After discharg-ing his conscience on that head, he proceeded to inform them, with many rapturous expressions, of his happiness in having obtained the affection of their amiable neighbour, Miss Lucas, and then explained that it was merely with the view of enjoying her society that he had been so ready to close with their kind wish of seeing him again at Longbourn, whither he hoped to be able to return on Monday fortnight; for Lady Catherine, he added, so heartily approved his mar-riage, that she wished it to take place as soon as possible, which he trusted would be an unanswerable argument with his amiable Charlotte to name an early day for making him the happiest of men.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived af-terwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good fam-ily in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in Eng-land, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.
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