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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The porter opened obsequiously for her, and, at her nod, hurried to the edge of the pavement and whistled for a taxi.
-- Gerald gave the porter a shilling.
-- Birkin snapped the hand bags, off they went, the porter coming behind.
-- The porter came up.
-- The luggage was stowed, the porter was tipped.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As he was crossing the next yard with the basket in his hand, under the guidance of his former conductor, another officer called to them to stop, and came up with a pint pot of porter in his hand.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Judge," said Nekhludoff, approaching him at the moment when he was putting on a light overcoat and taking a silver-handled cane which the porter handed him, "may I speak to you about the case that has just been tried?
-- The porter walked to the stairway and rang the bell.
-- But Nekhludoff was firm, and while the footman and porter sprang toward him, handing him his overcoat and cane, and opening the door, before which a policeman stood, he excused himself, pleading want of time.
-- Nekhludoff had scarcely asked the porter where Michael Ivanovich (Maslenikoff) was, when the latter appeared on the carpeted stairway, escorting a very important guest, such as he usually escorted not to the upper landing, but to the vestibule.
-- The same handsome Phillip and the porter were bearing the Princess.
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