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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The substantial dishes were reserved for the night-comers, and the three hunters contented themselves with devouring the partridges, and washed down their meal with clear, fresh water, which was pronounced superior to all the porter in the world, even to the famous Highland USQUEBAUGH, or whisky.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You will begin in each case by giving the outside porter one shilling.
-- 'In each case the outside porter will send for the hall porter, to whom also you will give a shilling.
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 porter will show you.'
-- He remembered that the porter said she very rarely came at all, so that it was still less likely that she would have gone there so late at night.
-- The prince found the porter with difficulty, but when found, the man would hardly look at him or answer his questions, pretending to be busy.
-- Very likely the porter had received new instructions during the inter-val of the prince's absence; his manner was so different now.
-- He could not find the porter this time at all.
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：
-- There was a bench outside, on which it might be presumed the night porter passed uneasy nights.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I see,' replied her son, taking up the porter pot, 'my love to you, mother.
-- Then came the public-house, freshly painted in green and white, with tea-gardens and a bowling green, spurning its old neighbour with the horse-trough where the waggons stopped; then, fields; and then, some houses, one by one, of goodly size with lawns, some even with a lodge where dwelt a porter and his wife.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The light porter placed the tea-tray on it, knuckling his forehead as a form of homage.
-- He was a very light porter indeed; as light as in the days when he blinkingly defined a horse, for girl number twenty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Flew at the porter fellow when he was put into the dog-box, and flew at the guard when he was taken out.
-- I brought him out of the office door by the collar, that the very porter might know I was a practical man who appreciated the official estimate of such characters; and here we are!'
-- Thus expressing himself, he threw the draggled skirt of his cloak over his shoulder, and accompanied Mr Flintwinch to the tavern; taking up on the road a porter who was waiting with his portmanteau on the outer side of the gateway.
-- Thus, when his equipage stopped at his own gate, no one but the porter appeared to receive him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the porter is sleepy, the anvil-headed whale would be best.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In pursuance of this request, Nancy quickly laid the cloth; disappearing for a few minutes, she presently returned with a pot of porter and a dish of sheep's heads: which gave occasion to several pleasant witticisms on the part of Mr. Sikes, founded upon the singular coincidence of 'jemmies' being a can name, common to them, and also to an ingenious implement much used in his profession.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Are you certain that no servant, no porter has left any letter or note?"
-- "I understand you," he replied, with an expressive smile, and a voice perfectly calm; "yes, I am very drunk. A pint of porter with my cold beef at Marlborough was enough to over-set me."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A big, heavy-faced porter was standing at one of the side entrances, looking out.
-- The porter stared at him the while he continued to talk.
-- The porter still gazed, trying to look indifferent.
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