porter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 守门人， 门房， 行李搬运工， 服务员，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Outside Tellson's never by any means in it, unless called in was an odd-job-man, an occasional porter and messenger, who served as the live sign of the house.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On reaching the offices of the board, Stepan Arkadyevitch, escorted by a deferential porter with a portfolio, went into his little private room, put on his uniform, and went into the boardroom.
-- The maid took a handbag and the lap dog, the butler and a porter the other baggage.
-- "At the top, 12 and 13," the porter answered Levin's inquiry.
-- The hall porter stood holding open the great door of the house.
-- She gave him her hand, and with her rapid, springy step she passed by the porter and vanished into the carriage.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The porter was squatting on a stool, polishing an amazing pile of shoes.
-- He was conscious that the porter was disapproving, but he had comfort in calculating that the man must make this run thrice a week, tens of thousands of miles yearly, apparently without being killed, and there might be a chance of their lasting till morning.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it all happened fortunately, the door of the por-ter's room was closed but not locked, so that it seemed most likely that the porter was at home.
-- If the porter had asked him, 'What do you want?'
-- But again the porter was not at home, and he succeeded in putting the axe back under the bench, and even covering it with the chunk of wood as before.
-- Yes; the porter and Nastasya were standing there.
-- The porter turned his head for a moment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had emerged by another door, and stood in the street for a littlewhile, as if I really were a stranger upon earth; but theunceremonious pushing and hustling that I received, soon recalledme to myself, and put me in the road back to the hotel; whither Iwent, revolving the glorious vision all the way; and where, aftersome porter and oysters, I sat revolving it still, as past one o'clock,with my eyes on the coffee-room fire.
-- And that then they had come to me,and had had bottled porter and sandwiches on the road.
-- But Iapprehend that we were personally unfortunate in engaging aservant with a taste for cordials, who swelled our running accountfor porter at the public-house by such inexplicable items as'quartern rum shrub (Mrs. C.)'; 'Halfquartern gin and cloves (Mrs.C.)'; 'Glass rum and peppermint (Mrs. C.)';- the parentheses alwaysreferring to Dora, who was supposed, it appeared on explanation,to have imbibed the whole of these refreshments.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The small wicket at last opened, and a porter appeared.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The porter opened the gates of the court, which had that night been my asylum, and I issued into the streets, pac-ing them with quick steps, as if I sought to avoid the wretch whom I feared every turning of the street would present to my view.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet in the London streets so crowded with people and so brilliantly lighted in the dusk of evening, there were depressing hints of reproaches for that I had put the poor old kitchen at home so far away; and in the dead of night, the footsteps of some incapable impostor of a porter mooning about Barnard's Inn, under pretence of watching it, fell hollow on my heart.
-- The last man I should have expected to see in that place of porter at Miss Havisham's door.
-- "I never saw this room before," I remarked; "but there used to be no Porter here."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You'll have your own private apartments, and you'll have your coals and your candles, and all the rest of it, and you'll have your maid to attend upon you, and you'll have your light porter to protect you, and you'll be what I take the liberty of considering precious comfortable,' said Bounderby.
-- For the rest, she knew that after office-hours, she reigned supreme over all the office furniture, and over a locked-up iron room with three locks, against the door of which strong chamber the light porter laid his head every night, on a truckle bed, that disappeared at cockcrow.
-- A deaf serving-woman and the light porter completed Mrs. Sparsit's empire.
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