insolvent是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 无偿债能力的,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《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The better class of minds, however, did not need to be informed that the Powlers were an ancient stock, who could trace themselves so exceedingly far back that it was not surprising if they sometimes lost themselves which they had rather frequently done, as respected horse-flesh, blind-hookey, Hebrew monetary transactions, and the Insolvent Debtors' Court.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He remained shut up in his room for a fortnight afterwards; and an attorney's clerk, who was going through the Insolvent Court, engrossed an address of condolence to him, which looked like a Lease, and which all the prisoners signed.
-- His experience on the lock gave him such an acute perception of the enormous difficulty of 'tying up' money with any approach to tightness, and contrariwise of the remarkable ease with which it got loose, that through a series of years he regularly propounded this knotty point to every new insolvent agent and other professional gentleman who passed in and out.
-- He was as good-natured a dancing-master as ever danced to the Insolvent Court, and he kept his word.
-- The shabbiness of these attendants upon shabbiness, the poverty of these insolvent waiters upon insolvency, was a sight to see.
-- 'The Circumlocution Department, sir,' Mr Barnacle replied, 'may have possibly recommended possibly I cannot say that some public claim against the insolvent estate of a firm or copartnership to which this person may have belonged, should be enforced.
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