telegraph是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 电报机, 电报v. 打电报, 发电报,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Here and there they noticed a species of sheep peculiar to New Holland—sheep with pig's heads, feeding between the posts of the telegraph line recently made between Adelaide and the coast.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Similarly, during two or three hours of drawl, and the winnowing of many bushels of words, Madame De-farge's frequent expressions of impatience were taken up, with marvellous quickness, at a distance: the more readily, because certain men who had by some wonderful exercise of agility climbed up the external architecture to look in from the windows, knew Madame Defarge well, and acted as a telegraph between her and the crowd outside the build-ing.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Every man will agree that in doing the duty of a juryman, a witness, a telegraph clerk, we feel we are performing duties.
-- "I didn't want to show it to you, because Stiva has such a passion for telegraphing: why telegraph when nothing is settled?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "The Daily Telegraph says that he is a gentleman."
-- There were real grounds for supposing, as the Daily Telegraph said, that the thief did not belong to a professional band.
-- The Times, Standard, Morning Post, and Daily News, and twenty other highly respectable newspapers scouted Mr. Fogg's project as madness; the Daily Telegraph alone hesitatingly supported him.
-- A few readers of the Daily Telegraph even dared to say, "Why not, after all?
-- Having uttered these words with a cool, careless air, the detective took leave of the consul, and repaired to the telegraph office, whence he sent the dispatch which we have seen to the London police office.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He telegraphed for details, to the enormous interest of the station agent, who was also telegraph operator.
-- You watch me!Now I go and telegraph I can't keep a lecture engagement next week--huh!me lecture to a women's college, me that can talk rat-language and know seven beautiful deadly kind of traps!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not another word did Mr. Dick utter on the subject, but he made avery telegraph of himself for the next half-hour (to the greatdisturbance of my aunt's mind), to enjoin inviolable secrecy on me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Crowds formed at the depot, hoping for news from incoming trains, at the telegraph office, in front of the harriedheadquarters, before the locked doors of the newspapers.
-- Without finishing their breakfasts they drove down to telegraph Ashley's colonel,but even as they entered the office, there was a telegram from him.
-- Melanie could hardly be dragged away from the telegraph office and she met every train hoping for letters.
-- She had fainted at the telegraph office and Rhett, passing by and observing the excitement, had escorted her home.
-- Now, in the anxious quiet, crowds stormed General Hood's headquarters demandinginformation, crowds massed about the telegraph office and the depot hoping for tidings, good tidings, for everyonehoped that the silence of Sherman's cannon meant that the Yankees were in full retreat and the Confederates chasingthem back up the road to Dalton, But no news came.
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:
-- If we don't settle something by to-morrow, I shall telegraph to Father, and we shall take Connie away.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'It's one of them horrid telegraph things, mum,' she said, handling it as if she was afraid it would explode and do some damage.
-- Settle your wig, Jo, and tell me if I shall telegraph to your mother, or do anything?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Alive or dead a fish is technically fast, when it is connected with an occupied ship or boat, by any medium at all controllable by the occupant or occupants, a mast, an oar, a nine-inch cable, a telegraph wire, or a strand of cobweb, it is all the same.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Across wide stretches of flat, open prairie they could see lines of telegraph poles stalking across the fields toward the great city.
-- A telegraph messenger in blue dashed past her and up the few steps that led to the entrance and disappeared.
-- On the second trip of the afternoon he ran into a crowd about half way along the line, that had blocked the car's progress with an old telegraph pole.
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