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 have not pushed it to the length of getting into a box to think, but that is the logical outcome of my convictions.
-- A tin box for botanical specimens hung over his shoulder and he carried a green butterfly-net in one of his hands.
-- 'Your net and box would have told me as much,' said I, 'for I knew that Mr. Stapleton was a naturalist.
-- I have a box for 'Les Huguenots.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nimbly springing up on the triangular raised box in the bow, the savage stood erect there, and with intensely eager eyes gazed off towards the spot where the chase had last been descried.
-- From the chocks it hangs in a slight festoon over the bows, and is then passed inside the boat again; and some ten or twenty fathoms (called box-line) being coiled upon the box in the bows, it continues its way to the gunwale still a little further aft, and is then attached to the short-warp the rope which is immediately connected with the harpoon; but previous to that connexion, the short-warp goes through sundry mystifications too tedious to detail.
-- Tumbled into the water, it accordingly is in such cases; the spare coils of box line (mentioned in a preceding chapter) making this feat, in most instances, prudently practicable.
-- For the strain constantly kept up by the windlass continually keeps the whale rolling over and over in the water, and as the blubber in one strip uniformly peels off along the line called the "scarf," simultaneously cut by the spades of Starbuck and Stubb, the mates; and just as fast as it is thus peeled off, and indeed by that very act itself, it is all the time being hoisted higher and higher aloft till its upper end grazes the main-top; the men at the windlass then cease heaving, and for a moment or two the prodigious blood-dripping mass sways to and fro as if let down from the sky, and every one present must take good heed to dodge it when it swings, else it may box his ears and pitch him headlong overboard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said Charlotte, bursting into a hearty laugh, in which she was joined by Noah; after which they both looked scornfully at poor Oliver Twist, as he sat shivering on the box in the coldest corner of the room, and ate the stale pieces which had been specially reserved for him.
-- said Sowerberry; giving Oliver a shake, and a box on the ear.
-- He closed the lid of the box with a loud crash; and, laying his hand on a bread knife which was on the table, started furiously up.
-- When he turned his head, the box was gone.
-- With these words, he pushed them from the room: and carefully double-locking and barring the door behind them, drew from its place of concealment the box which he had unintentionally disclosed to Oliver.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But that which comforted me more still, was, that last of all, after I had made five or six such voyages as these, and thought I had nothing more to expect from the ship that was worth my meddling with - I say, after all this, I found a great hogshead of bread, three large runlets of rum, or spirits, a box of sugar, and a barrel of fine flour; this was surprising to me, because I had given over expecting any more provisions, except what was spoiled by the water.
-- First, he had brought me a case of bottles full of excellent cordial wa-ters, six large bottles of Madeira wine (the bottles held two quarts each), two pounds of excellent good tobacco, twelve good pieces of the ship's beef, and six pieces of pork, with a bag of peas, and about a hundred-weight of biscuit; he also brought me a box of sugar, a box of flour, a bag full of lem-ons, and two bottles of lime-juice, and abundance of other things.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jack told me they were shipping Vegacura to Australia now--said they sent a whole box to Cape Town last week."
-- I'll get a box for Joe Jefferson."
-- It so happened that on the night when Hurstwood, Carrie, and Drouet were in the box at McVickar's, George, Jr., was in the sixth row of the parquet with the daughter of H. B. Carmichael, the third partner of a wholesale dry-goods house of that city.
-- He purchased a box of delicately coloured and scented writing paper in monogram, which he kept locked in one of the drawers.
-- Already he was thinking of a box with some friends, and flowers for Carrie.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Because Mary Jane 'll be in mourning from this out; and first you know the nigger that does up the rooms will get an order to box these duds up and put 'em away; and do you reckon a nigger can run across money and not borrow some of it?'
-- When he got a-front of us he lifts his hat ever so gracious and dainty, like it was the lid of a box that had butterflies asleep in it and he didn't want to disturb them, and says: 'Mr.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In fact the wagon was so closely packed with boys of all ages that it looked like a box of sardines.
-- There, in front of him, in a box sat a beautiful woman.
扩展阅读: