empire是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 帝国，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The devil will hold his empire over humanity until a limit of time which is still unknown.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nevertheless it cuts me to the very heart that any one should rebuke so angrily another who is his own peer, and of like empire with himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That gentleman was a sort of Barnum, the director of a troupe of mountebanks, jugglers, clowns, acrobats, equilibrists, and gymnasts, who, according to the placard, was giving his last performances before leaving the Empire of the Sun for the States of the Union.
-- The lofty tower of its City Hall overlooked the whole panorama of the streets and avenues, which cut each other at right-angles, and in the midst of which appeared pleasant, verdant squares, while beyond appeared the Chinese quarter, seemingly imported from the Celestial Empire in a toy-box.
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：
-- Mrs. Strickland's sister was older than she, not unlike her, but more faded; and she had the efficient air, as though she carried the British Empire in her pocket, which the wives of senior officers acquire from the consciousness of belonging to a superior caste.
-- They were sombre blues, opaque like a delicately carved bowl in lapis lazuli, and yet with a quivering lustre that suggested the palpitation of mysterious life; there were purples, horrible like raw and putrid flesh, and yet with a glowing, sensual passion that called up vague memories of the Roman Empire of Heliogabalus; there were reds, shrill like the berries of holly one thought of Christmas in England, and the snow, the good cheer, and the pleasure of children and yet by some magic softened till they had the swooning tenderness of a dove's breast; there were deep yellows that died with an unnatural passion into a green as fragrant as the spring and as pure as the sparkling water of a mountain brook.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That's empire building.
-- There's good money in empire building.
-- But, there's more in empire wrecking."
-- "What empire are you talking about?"
-- "This empire we're living in the South the Confederacy the Cotton Kingdom it's breaking up right underour feet.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE MEDITERRANEAN IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURSThe Mediterranean, the blue sea par excellence, "the great sea" of the Hebrews, "the sea" of the Greeks, the "mare nostrum" of the Romans, bordered by orange-trees, aloes, cacti, and sea-pines; embalmed with the perfume of the myrtle, surrounded by rude mountains, saturated with pure and transparent air, but incessantly worked by underground fires; a perfect battlefield in which Neptune and Pluto still dispute the empire of the world!
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, in the midst of these intestine disquiets, we are threatened with an invasion from the island of Blefuscu, which is the other great empire of the universe, almost as large and pow-erful as this of his majesty.
-- he empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the north-Teast of Lilliput, from which it is parted only by a channel of eight hundred yards wide.
-- And so unmeasureable is the ambition of princes, that he seemed to think of nothing less than reducing the whole empire of Blefuscu into a province, and governing it, by a viceroy; of destroying the Big- endian exiles, and com-pelling that people to break the smaller end of their eggs, by which he would remain the sole monarch of the whole world.
-- There are some laws and customs in this empire very pe-culiar; and if they were not so directly contrary to those of my own dear country, I should be tempted to say a little in their justification.
-- ''That the said Quinbus Flestrin, having brought the imperial fleet of Blefuscu into the royal port, and being af-terwards commanded by his imperial majesty to seize all the other ships of the said empire of Blefuscu, and reduce that empire to a province, to be governed by a viceroy from hence, and to destroy and put to death, not only all the Big-endian exiles, but likewise all the people of that empire who would not immediately forsake the Big-endian heresy, he, the said Flestrin, like a false traitor against his most auspi-cious, serene, imperial majesty, did petition to be excused from the said service, upon pretence of unwillingness to force the consciences, or destroy the liberties and lives of an innocent people.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This it is, that for ever keeps God's true princes of the Empire from the world's hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this air can give, to those men who become famous more through their infinite inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than through their undoubted superiority over the dead level of the mass.
-- But when, as in the case of Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown of geographical empire encircles an imperial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased before the tremendous centralization.
-- Give me a condor's quill!Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand!Friends, hold my arms!For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their outreaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding its suburbs.
-- I am so rich, I could have given bid for bid with the wealthiest Pr脙娄torians at the auction of the Roman empire (which was the world's); and yet I owe for the flesh in the tongue I brag with.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the Empire Theatre she found a hive of peculiarly listless and indifferent individuals.
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