aunt是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 姨母, 姑母, 伯母, 婶母, 舅母, 阿姨,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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- continued he of the police-office, in his dreamy imaginings; 'how it reminds me of the violets in the garden of my aunt Magdalena!Yes, then I was a little wild boy, who did not go to school very regularly.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Princess Shtcherbatskaya had herself been married thirty years ago, her aunt arranging the match.
-- The match-making aunt had ascertained and communicated their mutual impression.
-- Either because the children saw that their mother was fond of this aunt, or that they felt a special charm in her themselves, the two elder ones, and the younger following their lead, as children so often do, had clung about their new aunt since before dinner, and would not leave her side.
-- screamed the children, who had finished tea, running up to their Aunt Anna.
-- But she could not but agree with Levin that to fix it for after Lent would be putting it off too late, as an old aunt of Prince Shtcherbatsky's was seriously ill and might die, and then the mourning would delay the wedding still longer.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her bed-ridden grand- aunt in Zenith, who was her excuse for coming so far to take hospital training.
-- In the fortnight he was called only once: for the sick-headache of Miss Agnes Ingleblad, aunt and housekeeper of Alec Ingleblad the barber.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 192My Aunt Makes Up Her Mind about MeCHAPTER XV .
-- 454My Aunt Astonishes MeCHAPTER XXXV .
-- An aunt of my father's, and consequently a great-aunt of mine, ofwhom I shall have more to relate by-and-by, was the principalmagnate of our family.
-- Mr. Chillip, looking mildly at my aunt with his head on one side,and making her a little bow, said, in allusion to the jewellers'cotton, as he softly touched his left ear'Some local irritationma'am?'
-- He sidled into the parlour as soon as he was atliberty, and said to my aunt in his meekest manner'Well, ma'am, Iam happy to congratulate you.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The aunt was a capricious woman, and governed her husband entirely; but it was not in Mr. Weston's nature to imagine that any caprice could be strong enough to affect one so dear, and, as he believed, so deservedly dear.
-- Every letter from her is read forty times over; her compliments to all friends go round and round again; and if she does but send her aunt the pattern of a stomacher, or knit a pair of garters for her grandmother, one hears of nothing else for a month.
-- He wishes exceed-ingly to come; but his uncle and aunt will not spare him.'
-- With regard to her not accompanying them to Ireland, 200 Emmaher account to her aunt contained nothing but truth, though there might be some truths not told.
-- But 'she could never get acquainted with her: she did not know how it was, but there was such coldness and reserve such apparent indifference whether she pleased or not and then, her aunt was such an eternal talker! and she was made such a fuss with by every body! and it had been always imagined that they were to be so intimate because their ages were the same, every body had supposed they must be so fond of each other.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Bathsheba's aunt was indoors.
-- I ran after you to say that my aunt made a mistake in sending you away from courting me "Gabriel expanded.
-- "What I meant to tell you was only this," she said eagerly, and yet half conscious of the absurdity of the position she had made for herself "that nobody has got me yet as a sweetheart, instead of my having a dozen, as my aunt said; I hate to be thought men's property in that way, though possibly I shall be had some day.
-- "Mr. Oak," she said, with luminous distinctness and common sense, "you are better off than I. I have hardly a penny in the world I am staying with my aunt for my bare sustenance.
-- His incipient friendship with her aunt had been nipped by the failure of his suit, and all that Oak learnt of Bathsheba's movements was done indirectly.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He began to ask his aunt about those relations; some of the old ties might still hold good.
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