uncle是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 伯父, 叔父, 舅父, 姑父, 姨父,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'But I wake when itblows, and tremble to think of uncle Dan and Ham, and believe Ihear 'em crying out for help.
-- He was always being caned- Ithink he was caned every day that halfyear, except one holidayMonday when he was only ruler'd on both hands- and was alwaysgoing to write to his uncle about it, and never did.
-- Em'ly couldn't speak to hertheer, for her loving uncle was come home, and he wouldn't- no,Mas'r Davy,' said Ham, with great earnestness, 'he couldn't, kind-natur'd, tender-hearted as he is, see them two together, side byside, for all the treasures that's wrecked in the sea.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some people even talked of a promise to his wife on her deathbed, and others of the son and the uncle not letting him.
-- 'And then their uncle comes in, and tosses them up to the ceiling in a very frightful way!'
-- It is such enjoyment to them, that if their uncle did not lay down the rule of their taking turns, whichever began would never give way to the other.'
-- He wishes exceed-ingly to come; but his uncle and aunt will not spare him.'
-- Mr. Frank Churchill to be making such a speech as that to the uncle and aunt, who have brought him up, and are to provide for him! Standing up in the middle of the room, I suppose, and speaking as loud as he could! How can you imagine such conduct practicable?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My uncle has a hut like this one, and I have heard him tell his shepherd not to go to sleep without leaving a slide open.
-- You speak like a lady all the parish notice it, and your uncle at Weatherbury is, I have heerd, a large farmer much larger than ever I shall be.
-- Her uncle was took bad, and the doctor was called with his world-wide skill; but he couldn't save the man.
-- Her uncle was a very fair sort of man.
-- To be sure I am no stranger to the place I am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You may remember that a history of all the voyages made for purposes of discovery composed the whole of our good Uncle Thomas' library.
-- These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them in-creased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life.
-- But it is a still greater evil to me that I am self-educated: for the first fourteen years of my life I ran wild on a common and read nothing but our Uncle Thomas' books of voyages.
-- She devoted herself to those whom she had been taught to call her uncle and cousins.
-- For a long time I have thought that each post would bring this line, and my persuasions have restrained my uncle from undertaking a journey to Ingolstadt.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was nothing to do but knit all day and at night listen to Uncle Carey read aloud from the improvingworks of Mr. Bulwer-Lytton.
-- As they went through the mud with Prissy sloshing, pouting, after them, she recalledwhat Charles had said about Uncle Peter.
-- Uncle Peter practically raised Melanie and me, for we were very young when Father and Mother died.
-- AuntPitty had a falling out with her brother, Uncle Henry, about that time, so she came to live with us and take care of us.
-- She is the most helpless soul just like a sweet grown-up child, and Uncle Peter treats her that way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Wopsle, the clerk at church, was to dine with us; and Mr. Hubble the wheelwright and Mrs. Hubble; and Uncle Pumblechook (Joe's uncle, but Mrs. Joe appropriated him), who was a well-to-do cornchandler in the nearest town, and drove his own chaise-cart.
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