box是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 盒, 箱; 包厢v. 把…装箱; 拳击, 打耳光,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even the fire on the hearth left off blazing, and went to sleep; the jack stopped, and the spit that was turning about with a goose upon it for the king's dinner stood still; and the cook, who was at that moment pulling the kitchen-boy by the hair to give him a box on the ear for something he had done amiss, let him go, and both fell asleep; the butler, who was slyly tasting the ale, fell asleep with the jug at his lips: and thus everything stood still, and slept soundly.
-- And the horses shook themselves, and the dogs jumped up and barked; the pi-geons took their heads from under their wings, and looked about and flew into the fields; the flies on the walls buzzed again; the fire in the kitchen blazed up; round went the jack, and round went the spit, with the goose for the king's din-ner upon it; the butler finished his draught of ale; the maid went on plucking the fowl; and the cook gave the boy the box on his ear.
-- said Chanticleer; 'no, that will never do; I had rather by half walk home; I'll sit on the box and be coachman, if you like, but I'll not draw.'
-- Now he had a good deal of gold in the house: so he said to Catherine, 'What pretty yellow buttons these are!I shall put them into a box and bury them in the garden; but take care that you nev-er go near or meddle with them.'
-- 'Go to him again,' said her mother, 'and if he does not answer, give him a box on the ear.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But ad-vancing forward towards my master (as I shall henceforth 106 Gulliver's Travelscall him,) his youngest son, who sat next to him, an arch boy of about ten years old, took me up by the legs, and held me so high in the air, that I trembled every limb: but his fa-ther snatched me from him, and at the same time gave him such a box on the left ear, as would have felled an European troop of horse to the earth, ordering him to be taken from the table.
-- My master, pursuant to the advice of his friend, carried me in a box the next market-day to the neighbouring town, and took along with him his little daughter, my nurse, upon a pillion behind him.
-- The box was close on every side, with a little door for me to go in and out, and a few gimlet holes to let in air.
-- She carried me on her lap, in a box tied about her waist.
-- I remember, one morning, when Glumdalclitch had set me in a box upon a window, as she usually did in fair days to give me air (for I durst not venture to let the box be hung on a nail out of the window, as we do with cages in Eng-land), after I had lifted up one of my sashes, and sat down at my table to eat a piece of sweet cake for my breakfast, above twenty wasps, allured by the smell, came flying into the room, humming louder than the drones of as many bagpipes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She took Louisa with her; and they were received by Mr. Sleary in a very little private apartment, with canvas sides, a grass floor, and a wooden ceiling all aslant, on which the box company stamped their approbation, as if they were coming through.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Our traveler's box of medicaments had not even been opened.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And Mrs Bolton sailed down with the huge and very black box in her arms, flushing bright pink in her excite-ment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Gelen box num seven wish see room!'
-- Chaymaid!Gelen box num seven, not go sleep here, gome.'
-- A light in my mother's window, which seems never to have been extinguished since I came home twice a year from school, and dragged my box over this pavement.
-- It was an iron box some two feet square, which he carried under his arms pretty easily.
-- Over against this chair, Maggy, with apoplectic exertions that were not at all required, dragged the box which was her seat on story-telling occasions, sat down upon it, hugged her own knees, and said, with a voracious appetite for stories, and with widely-opened eyes:'Now, Little Mother, let's have a good 'un!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I shall get a nice box of Faber's drawing pencils.
-- Laurie went on the box so Meg could keep her foot up, and the girls talked over their party in freedom.
-- Meg flew to rescue Amy, and Beth to pacify Jo, but Jo was quite beside herself, and with a parting box on her sister's ear, she rushed out of the room up to the old sofa in the gar-ret, and finished her fight alone.
-- The hard, bitter feeling was getting pretty bad, when the maid brought in a box of flowers.
-- Jo peeped into his half-open eye, felt his little heart, and finding him stiff and cold, shook her head, and offered her domino box for a coffin.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the fare was of the most substantial kind not only meat and potatoes, but dumplings; good heavens!dumplings for supper!One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner.
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