thank是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 感谢int. 谢谢n. 感谢(意),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:
-- "If those poor creatures ever see their native land again, it is you they will have to thank for it."
-- "No, Robert," said Mary Grant, "we will thank this noble lord and lady for what they have done for us, and never cease to think of them with gratitude; and then we'll both go together."
-- "Of course; and if it will give you the slightest pleasure—"His companions had hardly time to thank him for his obliging good nature, when distant and prolonged howls broke on their ear, plainly not proceeding from one or two solitary animals, but from a whole troop, and one, moreover, that was rapidly approaching.
-- In a very short time I shall be able to thank the Patagonian in the language he speaks so well."
-- "Poor father," said Robert; "how he will thank you for saving his life."
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:
-- 'I must thank you,' said Sherlock Holmes, 'for calling my attention to a case which certainly presents some features of interest.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Thank you, sir, but a less agreeable man would satisfy me.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was now landed and safe on shore, and began to look up and thank God that my life was saved, in a case wherein there was some minutes before scarce any room to hope.
-- There was a letter of my partner's, congratulating mevery affectionately upon my being alive, giving me an ac-count how the estate was improved, and what it produced a year; with the particulars of the number of squares, or acres that it contained, how planted, how many slaves there were upon it: and making two- and-twenty crosses for blessings, told me he had said so many AVE MARIAS to thank the Blessed Virgin that I was alive; inviting me very passion-ately to come over and take possession of my own, and in the meantime to give him orders to whom he should de-liver my effects if I did not come myself; concluding with a hearty tender of his friendship, and that of his family; and sent me as a present seven fine leopards' skins, which he had, it seems, received from Africa, by some other ship that he had sent thither, and which, it seems, had made a better voyage than I.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "None at all, ma'am, I thank you."
-- Thank Heaven!I cannot be forced into genius and eloquence."
-- "I thank you, ma'am, sincerely thank you," said Marianne, with warmth: "your invitation has insured my gratitude for ever, and it would give me such happiness, yes, almost the greatest happiness I am capable of, to be able to accept it.
-- The sight of you, Edward, is the only comfort it has afforded; and thank Heaven!you are what you always were!"
-- I hope my dear Miss Dashwood will excuse the liberty I take of writing to her; but I know your friendship for me will make you pleased to hear such a good account of myself and my dear Edward, after all the troubles we have went through lately, therefore will make no more apologies, but proceed to say that, thank God!though we have suffered dreadfully, we are both quite well now, and as happy as we must always be in one another's love.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Carrie took the cue, and replied: "Oh, thank you."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then Tom and Bob went to the sideboard where the decanter was, and mixed a glass of bitters and handed it to him, and he held it in his hand and waited till Tom's and Bob's was mixed, and then they bowed and said, 'Our duty to you, sir, and madam;' and THEY bowed the least bit in the world and said thank you, and so they drank, all three, and Bob and Tom poured a spoonful of water on the sugar and the mite of whisky or apple brandy in the bottom of their tum-blers, and give it to me and Buck, and we drank to the old people too.
-- He told them he was a pirate been a pirate for thirty years out in the Indian Ocean and his crew was thinned out considerable last spring in a fight, and he was home now to take out some fresh men, and thanks to goodness he'd been robbed last night and put ashore off of a steamboat without a cent, and he was glad of it; it was the blessedest thing that ever hap-pened to him, because he was a changed man now, and happy for the first time in his life; and, poor as he was, he was going to start right off and work his way back to the Indian Ocean, and put in the rest of his life trying to turn the pirates into the true path; for he could do it better than anybody else, being acquainted with all pirate crews in that ocean; and though it would take him a long time to get there without money, he would get there anyway, and every time he convinced a pirate he would say to him, 'Don't you thank me, don't you give me no credit; it all belongs to them dear people in Pokeville camp- meeting, natural brothers and benefactors of the race, and that dear preacher there, the truest friend a pirate ever had!'
-- 'Well, THAT'S all right then, thank goodness.'
-- And Tom he turned his head a little, and muttered some-thing or other, which showed he warn't in his right mind; then she flung up her hands, and says: 'He's alive, thank God!And that's enough!'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His hunger finally appeased, he raised his head to thank his kind benefactress.
-- "How much I do thank you!"
-- "We thank you for your attention!"
-- After the first few bites, those greedy fish found out that the wood was not good for their teeth, and, afraid of indigestion, they turned and ran here and there without saying good-by or even as much as thank you to me.
-- Then he turned to the fish and said to him: "Dear friend, you have saved my father, and I have not enough words with which to thank you!Allow me to embrace you as a sign of my eternal gratitude."
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