landlord是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 房东, 地主,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As to the latter, when every posting-house and ale-house could produce somebody in 'the Captain's' pay, ranging from the landlord to the low-est stable non-descript, it was the likeliest thing upon the cards.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The stranger's landlord said that he didn't know who had taken the house opposite, one saw no person about, and as to the music, it appeared to him to be extremely tiresome.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter 35 The prince communicated his good humor to his own family and his friends, and even to the German landlord in whose rooms the Shtcherbatskys were staying.
-- The landlord and the servants, too, grew brisker under the influence of his good spirits.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Among the dishes served up to him, the landlord especially recommended a certain giblet of "native rabbit," on which he prided himself.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All our acquaintances avoided us, nobody even bowed to us in the street, and I learnt that some shop-men and clerks were intending to insult us in a shameful way, smearing the gates of our house with pitch, so that the landlord began to tell us we must leave.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I begged Traddles to ask his landlord to walk up.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It being Saturday night, I found the landlord looking rather grimly at these records; but as my business was with Joe and not with him, I merely wished him good evening, and passed into the common room at the end of the passage, where there was a bright large kitchen fire, and where Joe was smoking his pipe in company with Mr. Wopsle and a stranger.
-- Him and some more was a sitting among the tables when I went in, and the landlord (which had a knowledge of me, and was a sporting one) called him out, and said, 'I think this is a man that might suit you,'--meaning I was.
-- As I was not able to cut my dinner, the old landlord with a shining bald head did it for me.
-- Also, there were two double-bedded rooms,--"such as they were," the landlord said.
-- "Yes, young man," said he, releasing the handle of the article in question, retiring a step or two from my table, and speaking for the behoof of the landlord and waiter at the door, "I will leave that teapot alone.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Late at night they arrived at an inn; and as it was bad 80 Grimms' Fairy Talestravelling in the dark, and the duck seemed much tired, and waddled about a good deal from one side to the other, they made up their minds to fix their quarters there: but the landlord at first was unwilling, and said his house was full, thinking they might not be very respectable company: how-ever, they spoke civilly to him, and gave him the egg which Partlet had laid by the way, and said they would give him the duck, who was in the habit of laying one every day: so at last he let them come in, and they bespoke a handsome sup-per, and spent the evening very jollily.
-- An hour or two afterwards the landlord got up, and took his handkerchief to wipe his face, but the pin ran into him and pricked him: then he walked into the kitchen to light his pipe at the fire, but when he stirred it up the eggshells flew into his eyes, and almost blinded him.
-- He went to the best inn, ordered himself handsome clothes, and then bade the landlord furnish him a room as hand-some as possible.
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:
-- He spoke the vernacular with a curious calm assurance, as if he were the landlord of the Inn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The landlord was clinking about in his kitchen; the landlady was quiet at her work; and the refreshed traveller sat smoking by the stove, warming his ragged feet.
-- She copied it out according, on this table, in a sweet writing, and Plornish, he took it where he worked, having a job just then,' (Plornish repeated job just then,) 'and likewise to the landlord of the Yard; through which it was that Mrs Clennam first happened to employ Miss Dorrit.'
-- 'The landlord of the Yard,' said Arthur Clennam, 'is ''He is Mr Casby, by name, he is,' said Plornish, 'and Pancks, he collects the rents.
-- Permit the landlord humbly to submit to Monsieur the Courier then, that Monseigneur, ordinarily so gracious, enraged himself without cause.
-- But the very genteel lady's English chariot being already horsed and at the inn-door, the landlord had slipped up-stairs to represent his hard case.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was cold as Iceland no fire at all the landlord said he couldn't afford it.
-- Starting up, the landlord cried, "That's the Grampus's crew.
-- The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven's sake to quit the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.
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