broker是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 经纪人,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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and scowled with their thunder-clotted brows upon the sites of populous river-capitals, where now the polite broker sells you land at a dollar an inch; in such a comparison an irresistible argument would seem furnished, to show that the hunted whale cannot now escape speedy extinction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I hope you won't think it selfish, Copperfield, if I mentionthat the broker carried off my little round table with the marbletop, and Sophy's flowerpot and stand?'
-- I have only noticed them from over the way, because ifthe broker saw me, bless you, he'd ask any price for them!Whathas occurred to me, having now the money, is, that perhaps you 458wouldn't object to ask that good nurse of yours to come with me tothe shop- I can show it her from round the corner of the nextstreet- and make the best bargain for them, as if they were forherself, that she can!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr Pancks would be now reduced to saying as he booked the case, 'Well!You'll have the broker in, and be turned out; that's what'll happen to you.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Meeting a broker, he made the inquiry, to learn that Jeejeeh had left China two years before, and, retiring from business with an immense fortune, had taken up his residence in Europe in Holland the broker thought, with the merchants of which country he had principally traded.
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