assembly是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 集合; 会议; 装配; (美) 洲议会的众议院,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The first disagreeable impression experienced by Mrs. Epanchin was to find the prince surrounded by a whole assembly of other guests not to mention the fact that some of those present were particularly detestable in her eyes.
-- The dignitary himself had been General Epanchin's protector from his youth up; and the general considered him so majestic a personage that he would have felt a hearty contempt for himself if he had even for one moment allowed himself to pose as the great man's equal, or to think of him in his fear and reverence-as any-thing less than an Olympic God!There were others present who had not met for years, and who had no feeling what-ever for each other, unless it were dislike; and yet they met tonight as though they had seen each other but yesterday in some friendly and intimate assembly of kindred spirits.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When they had quarrelled thus angrily, they rose, and broke up the assembly at the ships of the Achaeans.
-- Presently father Jove drove his chariot to Olympus, and entered the assembly of gods.
-- When he had got as far as the ships of Ulysses, where was their place of assembly and court of jus-tice, with their altars dedicated to the gods, Eurypylus son of Euaemon, met him, wounded in the thigh with an arrow, and limping out of the fight.
-- Now the Trojans when they had come out of the fight, unyoked their horses and gathered in assembly before pre-paring their supper.
-- On this even those who as yet had stayed always at the ships, the pilots and helmsmen, and even the stewards who were about the ships and served out rations, all came to the place of assembly because Achilles had shown himself after having held aloof so long from fighting.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On their return to the office the clerk explained to Nekhludoff that it was not a want of good sense that prevented their acceptance of the offer; that when gathered in assembly they always acted in that stubborn manner.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There is a great assembly in his honor.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter 29 'The assembly seated, rising o'er the rest, Achilles thus the king of men addressed.
-- Magua cast a look of triumph around the whole assembly before he proceeded to the execution of his purpose.
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