book是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 书, 书籍vt. 订(票, 座位, 房间等) , 预定,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:
-- Father says you are a most talented caligraphist; I'll bring you my book in a minute.'
-- His audience consisted of a youth of about fifteen years of age with a clever face, who had a book in his hand, though he was not reading; a young lady of twenty, in deep mourn-ing, stood near him with an infant in her arms; another girl of thirteen, also in black, was laughing loudly, her mouth wide open; and on the sofa lay a handsome young man, with black hair and eyes, and a suspicion of beard and whiskers.
-- She saw this book here lying before me.
-- 'No doubt there are pleasures and amusements peculiar to the country,' he continued, 'and to listen to a pretended stu-dent holding forth on the book of the Revelations may be as good as any other.
-- And yet I could not even read a book to the end; I had given up reading.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- BOOK I ing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that Sbrought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
-- BOOK II ow the other gods and the armed warriors on the plain Nslept soundly, but Jove was wakeful, for he was think-ing how to do honour to Achilles, and destroyed much people at the ships of the Achaeans.
-- BOOK III hen the companies were thus arrayed, each under its Wown captain, the Trojans advanced as a flight of wild fowl or cranes that scream overhead when rain and win-ter drive them over the flowing waters of Oceanus to bring death and destruction on the Pygmies, and they wrangle in the air as they fly; but the Achaeans marched silently, in high heart, and minded to stand by one another.
-- BOOK IV ow the gods were sitting with Jove in council upon Nthe golden floor while Hebe went round pouring out nectar for them to drink, and as they pledged one another in their cups of gold they looked down upon the town of Troy.
-- BOOK V hen Pallas Minerva put valour into the heart of Di-Tomed, son of Tydeus, that he might excel all the other Argives, and cover himself with glory.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If there's damage done, put it down in the bill," and he went on ticking a list in the exercise book before him.
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:
-- Thus, the term used in the title of this book has undergone the changes of Mahicanni, Mohicans, and Mohegans; the latter being the word commonly used by the whites.
-- Receiving no reply to this extraordinary appeal, which in truth, as it was delivered with the vigor of full and so-norous tones, merited some sort of notice, he who had thus sung forth the language of the holy book turned to the si-lent figure to whom he had unwittingly addressed himself, and found a new and more powerful subject of admiration in the object that encountered his gaze.
-- During this eulogium on the rare production of his na-tive poets, the stranger had drawn the book from his pocket, and fitting a pair of iron-rimmed spectacles to his nose, opened the volume with a care and veneration suited to its sacred purposes.
-- Besides, though the Delaware tongue is the same as a book to the Iroquois, the cunning varlets are quick enough at un-derstanding the reason of a wolf's howl.'
-- The book was open at a hymn not ill adapted to their situation, and in which the poet, no longer goaded by his desire to excel the inspired King of Israel, had discovered some chastened and respectable powers.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They consisted of two shirts and a half; two stocks for the neck; a pair or two of worsted stockings; an old pair of corduroy small- clothes; a rusty razor; a book of psalm tunes full of dog's-ears; and a broken pitch-pipe.
-- As to the books and furniture of the schoolhouse, they belonged to the community, excepting Cotton Mather's History of Witchcraft, a New England Almanac, and book of dreams and fortune-telling; in which last was a sheet of foolscap much scribbled and blotted in several fruitless at-tempts to make a copy of verses in honor of the heiress of Van Tassel.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What chance is there that any book will make its way among that multitude?
-- I was introduced to this celebrated person after that one, and the kind words they said about my book made me excessively uncomfortable.
-- Then we would speak of this publisher and of that, comparing the generosity of one with the meanness of another; we would argue whether it was better to go to one who gave handsome royalties or to another who "pushed" a book for all it was worth.
-- I have been able to invest them with none of those characteristics which make the persons of a book exist with a real life of their own; and, wondering if the fault is mine, I rack my brains to remember idiosyncrasies which might lend them vividness.
-- I gave him books to read, but after a page or two he would put the book down and stare miserably into space.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.
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