consent是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vi. /n. 同意, 允许,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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For the sake of a few jewels, to have murdered the son of her benefac-104 Frankensteintor and friend, a child whom she had nursed from its birth, and appeared to love as if it had been her own!I could not consent to the death of any human being, but certainly I should have thought such a creature unfit to remain in the society of men.
-- 'I do refuse it,' I replied; 'and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But it was by no means so plain to Mr. Provis (I resolved to call him by that name), who reserved his consent to Herbert's participation until he should have seen him and formed a favorable judgment of his physiognomy.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You must have my consent to that first,' said Heinel, 'so please to step in here, and let us talk it over.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce ev-ery thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memo-ry; although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human species.
-- He replied, 'that, by the laws of the kingdom, I must be searched by two of his officers; that he knew this could not be done without my consent and assis- 31tance; and he had so good an opinion of my generosity and justice, as to trust their persons in my hands; that whatever they took from me, should be returned when I left the coun-try, or paid for at the rate which I would set upon them.'
-- I would gladly have taken a dozen of the natives, but this was a thing the emperor would by no means permit; and, besides a diligent search into my pockets, his majesty engaged my honour 'not to carry away any of his subjects, although with their own consent and desire.'
-- The only difficulty that remained, was to persuade my wife, whose consent however I at last obtained, by the prospect of ad-vantage she proposed to her children.
-- The king would be the most absolute prince in the uni-verse, if he could but prevail on a ministry to join with him; but these having their estates below on the continent, and 213considering that the office of a favourite has a very uncer-tain tenure, would never consent to the enslaving of their country.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'My dear Louisa, then consent to receive the submissive representation of your devoted friend, who knows something of several varieties of his excellent fellow-creatures for excellent they are, I am quite ready to believe, in spite of such little foibles as always helping themselves to what they can get hold of.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was absolutely necessary to resign myself to my fate, and to consent to wait for the explosion for six weary hours!
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:
-- 'We will see if Duncan will consent to figure as co-re-spondent: then we must get Clifford to divorce Connie: and you must go on with your divorce, and you must both keep apart till you are free.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I can't consent, and I won't consent, and I never did consent, and I never will consent to be lost in you.
-- When, to these three-fold points of prudence there is added the fact that Mrs Gowan yielded her consent the moment she knew of Mr Meagles having yielded his, and that Mr Meagles's objection to the marriage had been the sole obstacle in its way all along, it becomes the height of probability that the relict of the deceased Commissioner of nothing particular, turned these ideas in her sagacious mind.
-- To Mrs Merdle, Mrs Gowan repaired on a visit of self-condolence, after having given the gracious consent aforesaid.
-- Am I justified in at last yielding my most reluctant consent to Henry's marrying among people not in Society; or, have I acted with inexcusable weakness?'
-- It is as much as to state not that I wish to press it or even recall it, for it is of no use now, and my only wish is to make the best of existing circumstances that from the first to the last I always objected to this match of yours, and at a very late period yielded a most unwilling consent to it.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with hon-eysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells in graceful wreaths all over it, tall white lilies, delicate ferns, and as many brilliant, picturesque plants as would consent to blossom there.
-- He is a truly excellent young man, and we could not refuse to listen to him, but I will not consent to Meg's engaging herself so young.'
-- I dare not tell your parents yet, but I think they would consent if they knew that we adored one another.
-- But much as she liked to write for children, Jo could not consent to depict all her naughty boys as being eaten by bears or tossed by mad bulls because they did not go to a particular Sabbath school, nor all the good infants who did go as rewarded by every kind of bliss, from gilded gingerbread to escorts of angels when they departed this life with psalms or sermons on their lisp-ing tongues.
-- This is the sort of shelf on which young wives and mothers may consent to be laid, safe from the restless fret and fever of the world, find-ing loyal lovers in the little sons and daughters who cling to them, undaunted by sorrow, poverty, or age, walking side by side, through fair and stormy weather, with a faithful friend, who is, in the true sense of the good old Saxon word, the 'house-band', and learning, as Meg learned, that a wom-an's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it not as a queen, but as a wise wife and mother.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When little Oliver was taken before 'the gentlemen' that evening; and informed that he was to go, that night, as general house-lad to a coffin-maker's; and that if he complained of his situation, or ever came back to the parish again, he would be sent to sea, there to be drowned, or knocked on the head, as the case might be, he evinced so little emotion, that they by common consent pronounced him a hardened young rascal, and ordered Mr. Bumble to remove him forthwith.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I dare say Mr. Bing-ley will be very glad to see you; and I will send a few lines by you to assure him of my hearty consent to his marrying whichever he chooses of the girls; though I must throw in a good word for my little Lizzy.'
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